I like the idea of paying a flat tab rate for everyone. I think my '97 and '98 model vehicles are less of an impact on the roads and environment than they people in their '60's and '70's model vehicles that spew oil and bad exhaust. My question is why did we drop the tab cost so low? Why not put it at say $100 or $150, and make the people with the junkers share some of the burden put on us because we choose to own later model vehicles?

-- Mark Hayes (mark.hayes@west.boeing.com), October 28, 1999

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Because we believe that the government can function adequately with less than 98% of their current revenue, a LOT less.

-- zowie (zowie@hotmail.com), October 28, 1999.

I don't think that the figure has as much to do with the government's position on this initiative nearly as much as the requirement that they answer to the people to raise taxes. I think Mr. Eyeman could have picked a figure that would result in the government loosing absolutely no revenue, and the government would change it's tune to say "the sky will fall maybe not today, but tomorrow". The $30 fee is also more commensurate with our neighboring states.

-- Matt Greenway (mgreenwa@u.washington.edu), October 28, 1999.

Mark

Because we want to force the pols to CUT SPENDING. We want to force them to publicly choose between funding necessary services and the garbage they spend our money on now.

We do not want them to have near the same amount they have now to squander. There are a few posts here that point out some of the waste the pols fund now, and they will have to choose PUBLICLY between NEEDS and WANTS.

Your post is kind of a reverse of the usual "politics of envy" rhetoric of the liberals and the paid P.R. flacks with their phoney e- mail addresses that infest this page.

PROPERTY TAX REFORM INITIATIVE ANYONE?

Ricardo

-- Ricardo (ricardoxxx@home.com), October 28, 1999.

Mark

I prefer to respond in the forum to a forum question/statement rather than thru private e-mail.

No,the insult about the paid P.R. flacks was not aimed at you or anyone else who doesn't use a phoney e-mail address. There are undoubtably people who are here arguing in favor of the anti-taxpayer crowd that are being paid by the word(or lie),rather than conviction.

As far as the equalization of tab fees for all private(non-business) vehicles,I whole heartedly agree.

The "politics of envy" that I was speaking of applies to those who believe that those who work,earn,build,produce and create should have the fruits of their labor taken from them at gunpoint and given to those who CHOOSE to do none of the above.

The rhetoric of those liberals who practice the politics of envy is simply pandering to that belief as in:"Why shoud those dirty yuppies in their S.U.V.'s pay the same as poor little me."

They believe that those who work hard and are successful should be taxed to death as punishment for having more than those who for whatever reason have made life decisions that have left them with less.

Got it? good.

Ricardo--who's hoping to videotape the liberal's kool-aid party on election eve.(stolen from Ed)

-- Ricardo (ricardoxxx@home.com), October 28, 1999.