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Posted on 03/03/2007 11:14:08 AM PST by Dallas59
You can use it a few times first, before putting it into the vehicle.......LOL!
I used to pay quarterly, being self employed, so I know exactly what you are talking about....
Good for you for convincing your friend!!!!
What if he were using solar panels?
No, it is stolen by the feds and the states and used for buses and rail systems. A very small percentage of it is used for the purpose for which it is collected.
In California the sales tax windfall because of the high price of gasoline has been put into the general fund. For politicians to use as they see fit.
Dennis Miller has the same attitude I do. We will not get serious about "green" cars, fuel etc until all the oil is gone.
So I am doing as he is, driving my SUV as much as possible to use up the oil. It's the least I can do for the "climate" problem that Gore has created. Or is it invented?
Back in the 70s/80s, I met several elderly folks with stories about FDR's agents coming out to their farms during the Depression to oversee the slaughter of *excess* hogs, so the retail price could rise.
Meanwhile, in the cities at the same time, envy of farmers was engendered by saying:"Well, at least _they_ have food."
It can happen again.
Yeah, Wisconsin has that arrangement also but see if this makes sense to you.
I heat my home with oil, The oil that is delivered to my tank is #2 Diesel, dyed red to indicate it is not to be used as motor fuel. The State/Fed tax on Diesel is about $0.42 per gallon. So in theory I should be able to get heating oil at Diesel pump price less some $0.42 per gallon, no?
In fact my supplier charges MORE then "pump price" including the road tax! I checked with various suppliers and there all charging more or less the same (within a penny).
I asked "What gives" and the mumbled answer was something about "special handling and storage charges".
I'd be better off loading a couple fifty gallon drums into a trailer, driving out to I94 and filling up at the truck stop. Some years back it was going the other way with people using heating oil at $0.17/gallon to fuel their Diesel cars. I'm afraid those days are gone forever.
Regards,
GtG
About a year ago the State Patrol went to a large nearby stockyard and told farmers they was going to check their fuel for dye in their pickups and other trucks. Quite a few got nabbed for using non road diesel.
Of course while the State was harassing hard working farmers on the interstate in front of the Stockyards more illegal drugs and aliens went past our good government employees without worry from our law enforcement.
IL dept of revenue sent me a demand letter stating I owed zero dollars and zero cents and threatened to size my assets salary and God knows what else if I didn't pay it. They claimed I was past due on my $0.00 ...................
Took a while to sort it out.......
Welcome to the brave new world...
HHC's husband.
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You can not and should not argue with stupid people.....
Suppose you are a bureaucrat. From what sources do your cronies and defacto dependents get handouts, subsidies, and pork? The average dumb (and productive) taxpayer, of course.
Problem: what do you do when the source of those subsidies is challenged? Like, say, someone daring to not buy enough highly taxed gas (with perhaps 15% of this revenue going towards road infrastructure, the rest being spent to prop up money-hemorrhaging government and well-connected private boondoggles that run the gamut from entitlement entities to recipients of dollar-devaluing corporate welfare in the form of favorable loans)? How do you keep the wheels larded for the next cycle? How do you pay for all those votes that have to be bought?
Answer: find a way to tax us ignorant bastards to make sure said cronies get a good return on their investment (using a competitive advantage available only at gunpoint), and said government bottom-feeders keep getting rewarded for no other reason than the fact that they vote for you (if only to keep the handouts going). Because of the parlor trick known as differential revenue sourcing, it even makes fiscal sense to spend $2000 to conduct an investigation in order to obtain $200 in revenue. It isn't your money anyway, so who cares!
Face it, there is no escape from the reality of being taxed effectively 50% of your income once you track the route taken by the dollars - and that percent is only going up with time. Most of that is spent just to drag around worthless carcasses. A pathetic state of affairs. And then there are FAGGOTS 
like John Edwards who openly advocate raising taxes to forward more money from the productive to the pockets of special interests.
This is an outrage. The couple are doing something that anybody can do, legally. The state didn't foresee the facts of biodiesels and the source of their revenues. Too bad for the State. You cannot make Ex Post Facto laws to retrieve what you didn't get because of your ignorance..........If they want revenues from biodiesels, then change the laws accordingly........
Worthy of a Nanny State Ping?
Hardly. This should be a NINNY STATE PING!........
Thats already afoot, remember NAIS?
Our current tax code imposes taxes at each stage of production.No it doesn't. You can produce untill you're blue in the face and never pay tax. You might however have to pay taxes if you make a profit from a sale
I guess you could say we actually have a sales tax.
The state does have a scheme; the details are listed in the article. It's just not set up for the real world, so it looks ugly when applied.
But, it wasn't until I got to the end of the article that it explained why the revenooers had picked these people out as an example:
David Wetzel, who has been exhibiting his car at energy fairs and universities
If your intent is to publicize a cause, expect that all the paperwork has to be filed. Even if that is not your primary intent.
Unless you have called them one should never ever allow an Agent of the State to enter your home without a duly constituted warrant signed by a Magistrate.
Ever.
They are not your friends.
They are not their to help you.
L
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