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Ordinary Biker wrote:
I would think one thing the authorities might bring up is that by not paying registration fees, you are not helping support road maintenance and upkeep.
Problem with that is, it doesn't go towards that at all. Road taxes are paid through the gas pumps. Want to pay less taxes? Stop trying to keep up with traffic just to fill up more often. California just bumped up its gas taxes an additional al $1.47 which will be on top of the general rise and fall of gas prices. 2011, premium fuel was $4.99-5.29 a gal. Funny thing is. California doesn't import any oil or fuel within its borders because they have and drill their own and they charge a premium for it. Why do they get it.. two reasons. 1. You'll never get enough people to just boycott not going to work, not coming to open their stores, not complying with the game. 2. The masses of people are stupid enough that if gas went up to $10 overnight, they'd still pay for it for reasons of #1. How obedient and dedicated to the system we all are. Amazing how we fund our own demises amd still cling on to the lies we've been taught because we would so much rather embrace the lies and wretchedness of reality because it's familiar to us than sort through it all and put some real work in to stand our own ground and change our opinions based upon new information given... who says indoctrination doesn't work? Public schools and college's alike or laboratories of a softened version of a Spanish Inquisition wrapped in pretty colors and fun idioms.
This is true. The registration fees are intended to go to this. And yes it does get spent in other ways sometimes more than not. It is pretty common to bump the gas taxes. Cars are more fuel efficient, less gas purchased, less tax revenue raised. We have the same issue with water. We have a drought, we conserve, use less, and then Denver Water complains that they have less money. Throw on top of this electric cars not paying gas tax at all, and you get the push to keep track of actual miles driven and charge for that.
No people will not boycott going to work. Most people will not intentional bankrupt themselves. They will pay higher prices because their decisions have put them on a path that precludes making no money so they can buy food, cable TV, internet, keep a roof over their heads. Decisions that you may not agree with, but not everybody is 'stupid' for living their life in a way that is different from what you have chosen.
Undrstm8ed wrote:
Ordinary Biker wrote:
I would think one thing the authorities might bring up is that by not paying registration fees, you are not helping support road maintenance and upkeep.
California also this last 6 months ago raised the cost of registration for vehicles between $25 and $150 on average. But some people's cars are $600 to register or more and it's yearly or bi-yearly. 36 million people x let's say even $2500 new and $105000 used cars over 4 yrs old.. fathom that. California was $6 billion dollars over their projected budget of intake taxes wise. Do you think at any time they told their residents "no, no thank you.. we collected all that we needed. Keep it"..? Government only creates money one of two ways. Taxes the people for it or prints it into existence.
Overall, doesn't matter the state you're in they all operate on baseline-budgeting, they misuse and pilfer different funds for misappropriation of funds all the time. And that's why the currencies we all do pay in excise taxes daily don't go where they were originally allocated for. You've got some smart beaurocrats out there, including policy enforcers and you got some dumb ones who do bare minimums at best. Few stand by their oaths or take it with the wrong damn hand to begin with. Don't let the suits, uniforms, or the badges fool you.
Here we have a law that forbids new taxes without specific voter approval. Called TABOR. So they add 'fees' to vehicle registrations. Same thing, different name, same result. But Kalifornia didn't 'print money into existence'. The Fed will do that, not at a state level. We have gotten money from budget surpluses in the past, don't remember the specifics right now.
The whole 'I am woke while you are idiots and slaves' thing wears thin at times though.