Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Friday, February 20, 2009 10:41:19 AM
The federal government is considering the idea of taxing mileage driven in addition to gasoline consumed. Aside from the fact this treats economy cars and gas guzzlers alike, it means the government will have to put a GPS chip in your car and monitor how much (and where) you drive.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iKyxhep3bfHageUJcgtOBo-pLQqgD96F6JO80 . Liberals are totalitarians at heart but even worse, they do it for our own good. My friend had this C.S. Lewis quotation on his Facebook page. I think it is dead on:
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/c._s._lewis_quote_e1e7
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience."