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| Thread ID: 118080 | 2011-05-18 16:54:00 | Reasons To NOT Live In California | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1203140 | 2011-05-18 16:54:00 | Governor Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown has passed through the California Senate, a new fee for drivers with vehicles licensed in the state. This bill requires a few more hoops to get through, but it appears to be a shoe-in. The biggest hurdle to get over is the amount of the fee, not the setting of it into motion. A fee will be charged, they just don't know how much is equitable. He has suggested a 'fee' of $0.13 per mile as a Highway Use Tax. All vehicles will submit to odometer readings twice a year, and for an inspection fee of only $65.00 the mileage will then be transmitted to Sacramento to be computed and a bill be sent to the registered owners of that vehicle according to the miles-traveled. Odometer Reading facilities are to be built and staffed with employees; such fees, payroll and cost of said buildings will be paid for by the $65.00/per vehicle fee for the 'reading of the odometers' by the trained staff. Vehicles with broken/inoperative odometers are required to repair them at the registered owner's expense. :thanks Jerry - may something appropriate happen to your drug dealer. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1203141 | 2011-05-18 21:30:00 | Down under we just add a petrol tax so much a litre (or in your case per US Gallon). That way your lawn mower and Boat pay as well!!!!!!! | Arnie (6624) | ||
| 1203142 | 2011-05-18 21:35:00 | We have that here already for heavy vehicles. We call it road user charges (RUC). I could imagine the uproar here if they introduced it for all vehicles including cars. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1203143 | 2011-05-18 21:36:00 | Bureaucracy-building. Little, if any, of the so called Highway Use Tax will go anywhere other than supporting the bureaucracy that administers it. And Joe Public will just disconnect their odometers for most of the year. :pf1mobmini: |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1203144 | 2011-05-18 21:47:00 | Not so easy to do on ECM-equipped vehicles. Shift points and cruise control and a bunch of other systems control devices require the VSS input. Without a vehicle speed sensor talking, the system goes into a seizure. Besides, getting caught with a disconnected odometer in the US is a felony. I guess that twice around a tree with a lawn mower rates a fee too in the other Upsidedown Land. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1203145 | 2011-05-18 23:24:00 | The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy :rolleyes: | Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 1203146 | 2011-05-18 23:33:00 | I like what Pogo said, years ago: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!" |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1203147 | 2011-05-19 01:51:00 | I guess the folks of CA will take this lying down as they usually do?? | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1203148 | 2011-05-19 02:05:00 | Betcha. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1203149 | 2011-05-19 02:11:00 | Not so easy to do on ECM-equipped vehicles . Shift points and cruise control and a bunch of other systems control devices require the VSS input . Without a vehicle speed sensor talking, the system goes into a seizure . Besides, getting caught with a disconnected odometer in the US is a felony . I guess that twice around a tree with a lawn mower rates a fee too in the other Upsidedown Land . Pretty sure its not exactly legal here either Ozzy just has tolls that take a snap shot of your license plate and send you the bill (only on certain roads) To charge per km is just rediculous Time to get out the pitchforks and torches |
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