Comments on: Car tax: The next generation

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:16:35 +0000

Instead of of rising our Car Tax how about a Bike Tax. I see cities spending a lot of time and effort on bike lanes and bike boulevards. Yet they (bicyclist)don’t contribute to the pot. Or if that’s not to your liking how about a Shoe Tax. Those Pedestrians always seem to be in my way when I’m going to work in my car.

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By: joe reight

joe reight — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:16:36 +0000

A tax, is a tax, is a tax, is a tax!
And the money spent how effectively?

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By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:24:10 +0000

Excellent points Dan and Reality! I can not disagree with you one bit!

I didn’t vote for Leno, personally. My biggest problem with him was that he was a city dweller(just like Migden). Hopefully the redistricting commission will sever him from our midst and we can have some local representation. But, hey, ya get what ya vote for and the majority of the voters liked him…probably the only reason is that there was a (D) after his name.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:47:47 +0000

Well said, Dan Delgado.

A simple review of a few government budgets will show that employee pay and fringe benefits have risen far faster than revenue or the economy.

Bringing those costs back in line with what they were 10 years ago would do more to balance the budget than anything else we could do.

But, heck, why do that when we can close parks.

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By: Dan Delgado

Dan Delgado — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:01:35 +0000

“The least we should do is revert back to where they were before Arnold took over.”

Money, et al,

How come all you guys (and gals) in favor of restoring these taxes never mention restoring the public employee pensions as well. These two things go hand in hand. Refusing to acknowledge that simple fact is what got us in this fix.

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By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:08:25 +0000

Of course Leno doesn’t care if people who rely on cars for transportation get a tax raise, most city people don’t rely on their cars! How does that help the struggling car market, people will hang onto their older cars, too. Politicians just don’t think.

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By: Money

Money — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:15:34 +0000

Cutting the vehicle license fee was one of the most profoundly stupid things Shwartzenegger and his supporters like Daryl Issa (who drove the recall effort against Davis) ever did. The least we should do is revert back to where they were before Arnold took over. We also need to go after CA based companies that stash money in offshore accounts in order evade paying taxes owed to the state.

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:16:19 +0000

Automobile taxes used to be connected to expenses associated with automobiles: roads, DMV, police, etc. Taxing cars to fund the general expenses of local government is a bad idea.

If Leno wants to aid local governments, giving them a larger percentage of the sales taxes collected in their communities makes more sense. Of course, that would mean the state would have give up some revenue. I’m not holding my breath.

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:49:16 +0000

The first solution to a politicans problem, raise taxes! In the real world of business, companies cut costs and employees to stay viable.

Why is this such a difficult concept for California elected officials to understand. Increasing taxes to pay for public employee pensions, welfare programs and failing schools drives business and productive people out of the state.

When public employees can retire with pensions exceeding 100% of the high salary they earned while employed, the system is corrupt and wrong. The nose has been in the trough much too long.

Think green, money, tax money that is and think sustainable. Reduce the size of government and the taxes we all pay and then explain why more taxes will make life better in the golden state.

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By: James Bennett

James Bennett — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:47:09 +0000

Making automobiles prohibitively expensive. Making property ownership too expensive.The immigration thing.The why don’t we manufacture much anymore thing.The spending money we don’t have thing.The preoccupation with ‘Smart’ trains’n bicycles thing.Health care thing. Money for their things,but not basic services thing. The redevelopment thing. Just about everything that seems askew,inequitable,against common sense(to our detriment).Is the SAME THING:Agenda21.If you smell something fishy,there’s the fish.Google:Freedom Advocates,DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21,
SB1619,Agenda21fordummies.
Agenda21 should be the subject of our study, and dissent.

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By: Dogs Rule

Dogs Rule — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:17:42 +0000

I would never vote to give these fiends a single dime- it’s wasted on stupidity year after year with no accountability and I’m sick of it. I have to live on what’s in my pocket and it’s time California do likewise. Period.

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By: NOTUTOO

NOTUTOO — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:33:00 +0000

2% of a vehicles worth? So the average car at $30,000 would be $600 per year registration fee? Obscene….

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By: Dan Delgado

Dan Delgado — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:03:07 +0000

“(about the same time lawmakers started jacking up pension benefits, but that’s another story)”

That’s not another story. That is the story. How can we talk about putting the tax back on the books unless we also revert the pension benefits back to 1998 levels as well.

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By: truth in news

truth in news — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:50:29 +0000

This is just a thought. Maybe we should ask counties to live within their means instead of taxing people who still have jobs. Maybe we should look into why people think it is alright to live off the state instead of getting a job. If we all earn our way and quit paying for social programs for slackers the state and it’s counties could live within their means.

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