Freedom of speech is one thing, but freedom of speech doesn't cover hate speech.
Unless the target is white males, or muslims. You're allowed to hate them.
Not sure if you have heard, but in the US there is a judicial branch of the government that has a long history of successfully enforcing the first amendment. Wild speculation about theoretical actions that will be invalidated by the courts are not useful.
I'd rather nip this kind of thing in the bud at the legislative level than let it go into law and hope that a panel of 9 people shoots it down. Open debate is a cornerstone of a free society. I'm simply speaking up and voicing my opinion in hopes that this bad idea doesn't get implemented.
You could get rid of the gas tax bureaucracy while you are creating a small increase in the licensing bureaucracy.
Ok, in the real world what's going to happen is that they're going to keep both gas taxes and mileage taxes. So you have more bureaucracy, higher tax rates, and more invasion of privacy by keeping tabs on how far a person drives every year. And you know they're not going to just read odometers to get the data. It's the same thing as why even have license plates? Every vehicle has a unique identifier already built in (VIN).
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