Cuz' I'm The Taxman

"If you drive a car,
I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit,
I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold
I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk,
I'll tax your feet."
----Taxman, Lennon and McCartney

Now, I always thought that this was sort of an anti government protest song that the Beatles wrote after they got successful and the realities of Great Britain's 60's era confiscatory income tax hit home. Apparently, the new head of California's DMV thinks it is a "how to do" chapter in "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Taxation".
Turns out that the high price of gas and taxes on gas have caused a lot of us to curtail unnecessary driving. Add to that the better mileage that many cars are getting and we are left with a reduction of income to the state from the 18 cent per gallon gas tax. I ask, in addition to raising funds for road constrution and repair, isn't part of the logic of a gas tax, like a cigarette tax, to make the purchase of the item more expensive and thereby curtail use? But I digress.
The new idea floated by the new DMV head is to install tracking devices in all cars so we can pay a tax based on miles driven. Well, why stop there, next we will tax driving on certain streets and at certain times at a higher rate. Then we can follow your every move and tax other behavior.
Soon it will get so expensive that they'll have to rewrite another Beatles song to:
"Baby You CAN'T Drive My Car".