Posted on 10/18/2011 6:15:50 PM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 10/18/2011 6:28:38 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
We don’t have Mexicans around here. Our specialty are Salvadorans and yes they register their cars and pay taxes and all that stuff. Last thing any of them want to have happen is to do something that gets them sent back. They are here legally as parolees ~ which is much different from being an illegal. Illegals get to go to court to object to deportation. Parolees don’t.
But we weren’t talking about a specific tax. You failed to specify any tax in your original comment. We were discussing TAXES, in general, and I’ve been assured by all the great minds down through the centuries that NOBODY BEATS THE TAXMAN.
Well you may be surrounded by Simon pure illegals who pay their taxes but many of us see EBT cars every day and subsidized housing and freebies handed out.
Believe it or not, there are sometimes three generations of families who have paid nothing in taxes and 100% of their take over the past 50 years has been handouts from the government.
I've been behind some of them in supermarket checkout lines. For some reason, they all buy food I can't afford and drive cars I can't afford either.
If it were not so the taxmen would figure out how to add that trick to their list to be defeated with clever tax laws.
The Port Authority doesn't collect taxes. They use fees.
I think it's quite fair for New Yorkers to pay for their own bridges.
I just paid $154.35 to register my Silverado, for one year. and people like Oprah get to register their aircraft for $5.00! I believe it’s for a FIVE year registration? Thats a dollar a year!
Link:
http://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/register_aircraft/
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I seem to remember the economic estimates on a terroist attack on the GWB ranging towards 13 figures. I live right near the state line, and I can report from personal experience that I-95 does not turn to gravel or hit a road block when it crosses over into Greenwich Ct. 300,000 veichles use that bridge every day, and most of them aren't stopping in NYC.
Come to think of it, at $12 a car, it seems to me that we should been able to afford a few more bridges a long time ago.
I saw the original car that Bond used. They showed it at the New York World’s Fair. It really had a rotating licence plate on it.
Previously the Toll Road managed to spend everything it earned on management salaries, excess toll booths and plush retirements and payoffs.
Now the income earned on the lease funds is paying for highway improvements throughout the state!
The problem in New York isn't the high tolls on the GW, it's the existence of the New York Port Authority. This particular "business model" may well not be serving the interests of the people of New York and New Jersey!
They do involve money changing hands, but I can assure you that when most folks buy a car, for example, they pay taxes and don't get a handout from anybody. Motor vehicles are highly taxed in this country and your local and state tax authorities think of them as A SOURCE OF INCOME!
Just curious - as I do not consider myself an idiot - what should I be doing instead of being an over=the-road trucker??
Just curious - as I do not consider myself an idiot - what should I be doing instead of being an over-the-road trucker??
Sorry for the double post. My computer hiccuped.
That's what I recall.
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LCD cover over plate ... make it opaque/mirrored when within range of any toll cameras ... easy one button operation and no moving parts except maybe for a relay..
http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_research/2007/20070129/20070129.html
I’ve long had the idea of an in car switch to covered up your plates.
I heard they have this spray now that creates camera glare but is invisible to the naked eye.
“I’ve long had the idea of an in car switch to covered up your plates.”
Makes sense to me.
“I heard they have this spray now that creates camera glare but is invisible to the naked eye.”
Yes, and most likely they’ll want a copy of your great-grandfather’s 3rd grade report card to actually purchase it.
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