NEW STRATEGY: Every Roll A Toll Road. “Despite the privacy issues, DC officials insist that tolling is necessary for making up for the shortfall in gasoline tax revenues. The proposed mileage tax would solve this problem by increasing motorist taxation levels by a factor of ten. The additional revenue would be diverted to spending on buses and rail service. . . . ‘Vehicles would be fitted with a GPS transponder device similar to an E-ZPass, perhaps as part of the registration process,’ Orr an

Jesse Veverka submits: Big spending. That’s been the Obama administration’s prescription for the financial crisis thus far. However, with a projected 2009 federal budget deficit of well over a trillion dollars, the administration’s stated desire to reduce the impact of income taxes for the majority of Americans, a decline in capital gains tax revenues, and other tax revenue sources, there will be mounting pressure on both federal and state governments to raise tax revenues in new, creat