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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Rollcast... who wrote (9582)9/27/2003 1:57:37 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793674
 
You Paid How Much for That? Many Californians are in for a surprise when they get their mail this weekend. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles is sending out this year's vehicle license fee assessment (the car tax) and for many drivers it'll be a bad case of sticker shock.

Earlier this summer, the Davis administration sat by idly while the state car tax was tripled to raise a little over $4 billion to help close the budget deficit (Davis, doing his best Sergeant Schultz imitation, said he could do nothing about it because of a legal trigger raising the tax in times of financial emergency). According to the California DMV, the average price of a new car sold in California is a little under $19,500. Buy a 2003 Ford Explorer LS, for example, and the tax goes from $182 to $651. That's not a crushing blow to most working-class Californians, but it's a definite inconvenience--one that's easy to pin on the governor.

Talk about bad timing: right as recall qualified back in July, car owners began receiving notices that their renewal fees had tripled. Talk about potentially worse timing: think of the mood voters will be in if they put their VLF bill in the mail the same day they vote on Davis's future.
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