Duluth Tribune opinion editorial 5/14/09
I would like to comment on the proposed mileage tax, about which U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar wrote in a May 5 commentary in the News Tribune, “New sources of money needed to invest in roads and bridges.”
Where does Oberstar think the money will come from to pay for this and to install GPS technology in all of our vehicles?
The government is raising taxes. Meanwhile, people are losing their jobs. Doesn’t the government care? How are we going to pay rising taxes and fees without jobs? We have no money for this. Doesn’t the government realize that? Let all the millionaires and billionaires pay more taxes. They get by a lot easier than us middle-class and poor-class people.
People are losing their jobs, their homes, etc. Who is going to take care of us? Our government seems to care more about giving other countries money. I feel strongly our government should help its own people first for once.
So I suggest the government drive its own vehicles and let the government leaders pay this mileage tax, if it comes to be. They get things handed to them on a silver platter. Let them see how the people who don’t have much live each day.
Oberstar and the rest of the clan need to start seeing exactly what it is like for the rest of us. I feel if this mileage tax comes to be, there will be trouble and angry people. Where will we get the money to pay this? That is what I would like to know.
Rena Carey
Silver Bay
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