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I look forward all of this scholars writing "Rule-of-Law" fanfiction where the protagonists and antagonists live and interact in a society with a system of mostly reasonable laws and law enforcement. Definitely now categorized as Speculative Fiction.

Just spitballing, how about special markings on the tire. There's already the CARB system in place, that could be extended to marking tires as compliant and sold in California.

Thank you. Thats helpful. I don't need to be someone's disposable foil. I'll just block them.

Why do you delete your posts? Or is an admin/mod deleting them?

Sure, it can start building it again just with what I search to watch. Then I get to close the browser again and wipe it clean again. I know that fingerprinting exists, but I'm not seeing its behavior for video suggestions. In fact, I do see tracking by IP because I'll get suggested things I know my wife is looking at (and we're coming from the same IP). Even those are few and far between though.

Its impossible for me to subscribe to a youtuber because I don't have (and don't want) a Youtube account. I understand Youtubers get more visibility with more subscriptions, but I just don't want to be part of the algorithm. I can close my private browser, and any algorithm infection is wiped clean from my view.

“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said.

Holy fucking crap! He's going to intentionally cut legitimate payments to millions of retirees and disabled people, and his criteria for finding fraud are the people that cry out first?! What kind of bullshit is that?!

“Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”

Howard, your mom isn't calling in because she died in 1978. Source: Obituary in the New York times from Feb. 21, 1978

Your mother-in-law, Geri, likely inherited a healthy sum from her husband's company (which he got from his father) which allowed her husband to have two country club memberships for golf and a comfortable lifestyle of booze and travel, before he died in 2022:

"Joel was an avid golfer and an active member of Wycliffe Golf & Country Club and Edgewood Country Club. He loved to make others laugh with his dry wit, and enjoyed dining out, travel, wine, and dirty martinis, and he did it all with his beautiful bride "Gedgy" by his side." Source: father in law obituary

Howard, your mother-in-law likely doesn't depend on social a meager Social Security payment for her housing, food, and needed healthcare. Millions of other American senior citizens aren't nearly as lucky you ghoul.

Gotcha, thats good info.

How would you say the system is working? Is it generally accepted by the citizenry?

Only time my car has been inspected has been a rare repair or during smog tests, and many are exempt.

So the process and infrastructure for automobile checks is already in place. The only changes needed would be to remove the exemptions, and potentially increase the frequency. Many states have annual inspections already.

I didn't think a single word could be poetry, but here we are.

Can you talk more about this? Do they charge a flat tax per mile? Is there any allowance if you do most of your driving outside of the state or is the assumption 100% of the mileage is inside the taxed are?

Tire wear is not as standard as you are implying. There are many factors in tire wear including the hardness of the rubber compound. Stickier tires for better steering and braking wear faster than, say, high mileage tires for hybrids to get the best MPG or electric range.

If you're looking for a perfect metric for road wear that works across all vehicles, you're not going to find it. A perfect example of this is today's gas tax. The size of the vehicle, the engine, the amount of cargo being carried, even the wind direction that day all influence the fuel efficiency of the vehicle and would raise and lower the amount of fuel it would consume, yet the static per gallon tax is levied on each gallon regardless of the day or car. So even today's gas tax doesn't capture perfectly the usage.

I'd argue a tire tax gets much closer. You left out one piece of info on your tire comparrison. Those tires are rated for different amounts of miles of use, so that could be added as a metric to get a more accurate taxation: