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Massachusetts Wants To Know How Far You’re DrivingThe Massachusetts legislature is poised to pass Bill S.2246, which aims to reduce how much people drive in the state. While I’m sure many will tell you that will be done by the government asking nicely or “incentivizing proper behavior,” this is obviously the latest attempt to start restricting private vehicle use.
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It’s eerily similar to what the old “bipartisan” Infrastructure Bill set up, with the feds trying to figure out if they could start taxing people for their driving miles. From there, it’s so easy to start mandating how far people can drive, and with the kill switches for all vehicles included in the same bill, that would allow the federal government to keep individuals from even turning on their car.
According to the Massachusetts’ legislature website, the bill is “based on laws and regulations in Colorado and Minnesota.” Don’t worry, restricting your driving freedoms is okay as long as other states are doing it.
While the bill makes it seem like the aim is to convince people to willingly opt to ride public transit instead of driving their car, we all know if all things are equal, most normal people won’t ride a bus or train.
After all, not only do you quickly learn on public transit not everyone believes in using deodorant, you get to take multiple times longer to get places and perhaps will at one point be mugged. Plus, certain areas have poor or not public transit service. Why would anyone want to just drive in their personal car instead of experiencing all that?
If you thought with the recent shift in the federal government the push to monitor and possibly restrict private citizens’ driving habits was over, you were wrong. We already knew that was the case because there are enough people who think the future of the planet is in jeopardy because you drove to Trader Joe’s.
That’s hilarious considering many of our leaders will take a private jet ride to get brunch in another country. But tell me again how the real problem is the fact I went on a 70 mile journey over the weekend.
I’m never a fan of the government tracking mileage driven because that entails tracking where people go since that would be accomplished through GPS devices. It’s just too easy to use that information and power to start restricting freedoms, not to mention using people’s travel habits against them.
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