Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Oregon Tax Is a Drag on the Open Road

It's expensive, invades privacy and discourages fuel-efficient cars.

July 7, 2015 at 2:58 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

OReGO, go, go.
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Would you volunteer for Oregon’s new experimental program to tax drivers by the mile as a substitute for the gasoline tax? I wouldn’t.

The state started testing this month a system in which drivers pay 1.5 cents per mile driven. Oregon hopes for 5,000 voluntary participants, each of whom will install in his or her vehicle what the state calls a “mileage recording device.”1436277257318