NY Post: CA Hopeful Eyes TAX On Every Mile

Picture it: you're out on a county road, odometer ticking, and somewhere a bureaucrat's cash register goes ka-ching with every turn of your tires. The NY Post reports that California governor hopeful Xavier Becerra could bring drivers a new tax for every mile traveled, if he gets his way. The Post's headline calls the scheme insidious. I'd call it the first time a tax collector has ever wanted to ride shotgun.

Now, the Post doesn't say Becerra has formally proposed it, and nobody's explained how it'd be collected. But on my ranch we call that a warning sign. A fella who wants to charge you by the mile has never once driven out to feed cattle at dawn. They had one job, and they called in sick for it.