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ORIGINAL: aravain

If they stop taxing gasoline as anything more than income for the companies and public transportation were exempt... I don't see the problem.

You (the person with the Hybrid car) would still be missing a lot of costs by not needing much gasoline (in comparison) in the first place. I have a friend who owns a Prius (they're purrrrty) and gets gas maybe once a month... but his car is still messing up the roads just as much as my dad's Pacifica, and HE gets gas at least once a week (sometimes more); this is just to go to work and home (they both live about the same difference from their respective work places).

And the simple truth is that cars *RUIN* roads. That's what the gas tax goes into, first, to repair... the roads (or, that's what I was told in school)!

If you're going to mess up the damned roads, you better be willing to pay for the privilege, in my opinion, or else be willing to take public transportation or long-distance transportation which would actually become cheaper (and create more jobs for vehicle technicians and operators etc.)

EDIT: to add a 'than' and also:

I wouldn't support a GPS system, of course, but monitoring mileage wouldn't be a big deal.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Monitor my mileage all day long, and you'll probably end up owing ME



I know a thing or two about all kinds of technical wizardry

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Well, let's see. Obama just signed a bill giving him and everyone else in the world access to all of our medical records. So why not a little government GPS unit attached to all of our vehicles too? Why not.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Obama just signed a bill giving him and everyone else in the world access to all of our medical records

Humm as I suspected, a history of paranoia..

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ORIGINAL: aravain

Which would be illegal, then.

They tend to throw people who do illegal things in jail.

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What didn't come up during the president's first press conference was how one section of the convoluted legislation--it's approximately 800 pages total--is intended to radically reshape the nation's medical system by having the government establish computerized medical records that would follow each American from birth to death.

Billions will be handed to companies creating these databases. Billions will be handed to universities to incorporate patient databases "into the initial and ongoing training of health professionals." There's a mention of future "smart card functionality."


Yet nowhere in this 140-page portion of the legislation does the government anticipate that some Americans may not want their medical histories electronically stored, shared, and searchable. Although a single paragraph promises that data-sharing will "be voluntary," there's no obvious way to opt out.


http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10161233-38.html

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ORIGINAL: FullCircle

I'm reading your medical records remember, I don't make this stuff up.
People used to die whilst waiting for blood tests to come back telling those treating them what blood type they were. I obviously draw the line at selling this information to insurance companies and that is the obvious risk and must be prevented at all costs.

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No one else cares that you broke your leg aged eighteen pole dancing.

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Obama just signed a bill giving him and everyone else in the world access to all of our medical records.

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For God's sakes.....don't say anything negative about the man though!!!!

"An Oklahoma City man has had his anti-abortion bumper sticker confiscated by police who told him it represented a potential threat to President Obama.
A report in the online edition of the city's Oklahoman newspaper said police later returned the bumper sticker, which said, "Abort Obama Not the Unborn." 

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(in reply to Sanity)

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Unless you're, say, a Republican governor of Alaska running for VP?

Medical records can tell all kinds of people all sorts of things. Say you're filling out the forms to purchase a gun. Ever had a Xanax? Ever abused drugs of any kind? Ever entered treatment for alcoholism? Let's check and see...

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small governments tends to be limited to the islands of the pacific where government funding is problematic in any case.