To be fair, Rand Paul is an idiot. Broken clocks are right about as often as he is.

If he were truly libertarian, I'd at least respect that...but he's not.

Again, so it's undertaxed now and would be undertaxed under this new plan. How is it different?

apparently there is a non-GPS version available as well. As for why they'd need anything to track miles driven when the odometer already exists, I can't explain.

Neither does a gas tax so no harm done. By switching *every* state to this, the in a different state issues wash. My home state gets my mileage tax (and a separate federal one too...just like the gas tax) so everybody is still paying basically the same tax they were before but it might very slightly change to whom that tax is paid.

It's a non-issue.

They already are taxed significantly more than cars by nature of their much higher gas usage so there's no difference other than implementation of that tax.

The tax needs to be indexed by the vehicle make and model. Heavy vehicles do more damage so the tax rate on them would be higher...just as it is now as heavy vehicles generally consume more gas.

Straw man argument. The point is that when all states do this...and they will have to do this as less and less gas is used in vehicles, then your point goes away entirely.

I've been saying it for years. Adding tracking technology is absolutely ridiculous when a simple (already performed) reading of the odometer at annual inspection would do the exact same thing.

It's why travel expense are now done per diem rather than individually expensed. it's massive overhead when you can do 'enough' by just giving your people the rated per diem amount for the city and calling it a day.

Sure it might be nice to charge people different amounts on different roads, but do we seriously need that level of minutia...that we don't have now?

To be fair...idiocy isn't any more prevalent than it ever has been. It's just that it's broadcast to the world now instead of just the local bar.

Let alone no 'increase' in security it's measurably made security WORSE as lots and lots of websites can still use the watered down tools/certificates created by that misguided policy.

but you can start a mile north of the south pole (yes I looked it up!) and the solution still works.

But to be pedantic, there isn't anywhere on earth that you can currently stand on the surface of the earth that actually works. water at the north pole and way way too much ice to be on the 'surface' at the south pole :)

Indeed many others would have the ability to do this. Only the US Gov't ALSO has the ability to legally go kill people based on hunches (or manufactured meta data...)

Indeed and I give you 3 words for needing a paper trail.

National Security Agency.

They hack everything already. You do NOT want them hacking the votes. Given the complete lack of oversight and their already loose definition of 'legal' and 'overseas'...it sets up a perfect storm of an unanswerable rogue agency wagging the dog to get the pro-forma oversight they 'want'.

more than 2 separate 4K video streams?

As others have noted, not having to wait hours for downloads has benefits to productivity as well as creativity.

I don't claim to be a gun expert. I do claim that no *civilian* needs an assault rifle...or 100 round clip.

Feel free to try and explain why you NEED those...