Road wear should in some way be proportional to vehicle weight times miles driven, and that's (I think) what (GG)GP was getting at: That you get taxed for road maintenance based on your contribution to the wear.

GP's point was to take fuel taxes out of the equation: E said to direct-tax drivers for their actual mileage when renewing registration based on actual road costs, and just tax fuel as any other merchandise.

1. 1. Design improved-efficiency solar panels
2. 2. Have government-subsidized Chinese plants sell panels for two-thirds my production cost.
3. 3. Loss!

Wikipedia describes the many English translations of scripture, starting long, long before the Reformation (the first translator they mention is St. Bede), with the Douay-Rheims version (from around 1600, preceding the KJV by a few years) as the "first complete English Catholic Bible."

Not to say there weren't people burned to death. I'd add that exaggeration doesn't help your case, but then I look at Fox News.

Hey, somebody had to make dinner.

Amen! Congress has been starving the IRS of funding. The ROI to the federal government in terms of successful audits of the biggest tax cheats is huge, but with a tiny budget for audits, the IRS can't take on as many of the "big fish" who can mount strong defenses; it only has the resources to go after the minnows, even though there isn't much meat on them.

A 2010 report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that the audit rate of large (> $250M in assets) corporations dropped from 42.6% to 25% since 2005, and that for huge (> $5B) corporations dropped from 78% to 64% since only 2007. Do you think this is because of increased compliance? Ha. Ha.

Also see this 2008 OMB Watch report.

If you're hiring, I'll send you some of mine.

Mod parent up. This is the story.

The fact is that this company could not compete with PV fabricators in China. End of story.