[SmithL]

Well, as long as it's only a "fee" and not a "tax", I guess it's alright.

[SmithL]

The Fresno County Fire Protection District has bitten.

NOTE TO SELF: Don't have accident in Fresno.

[rednesss]

This is disgusting.

[MrB]

Hey, Californicans -

when you come to the great free states of America,

you’re gonna have to take a “I’m not a dummass liberal” test.

In lieu of the test, if you have at least two firearms and at least 1000 rds of ammo, you may wave the requirement for entry.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

If I am not mistaken, many areas of California are quite dependent on the economic activity generated by PEOPLE WHO LIVE ELSEWHERE. Like tourists who drive through, leaving a trail of MONEY. Why don’t you just erect large billboards that clearly state “OUT OF TOWN/STATE MONEY NOT WELCOME”.
That is being done in sections of the PDRM (People’s Democratic Republic of Massachusetts).
You’ll find that it works well.

[Redcloak]

Well, as long as it's only a "fee" and not a "tax", I guess it's alright.

Actually, it is a fee for services rendered. I'm OK with this. The locals are paying this fee for services as well, they just don't know it. There's nothing wrong with making sure that visitors also pay that same fee when they use the services. In other words, if his Obammyness comes to town and paramedics are called because he choked on a piece of Wagyu beef, I don't want to foot the bill. I want him to pay for it. (It's bad enough that I'm already paying for the Wagyu beef!)

[KoRn]

Such places should be subject to a national boycott.

[wbill]

Locals set revenue trap for non-local motorists

This is news? Small town deputies have been doing this since the invention of the automobile.

[bamahead]

All three communities sit astride major highways that carry tens of thousands of out-of-area motorists and truckers each day, thereby creating a big flock of birds to be plucked. And they – or their insurers – would be compelled to pay even if accidents were someone else's fault.



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[Still Thinking]

OK, so the total of all taxes nationwide is enough to pay for emergency services needed nationwide. Granted there are edge cases where the person receiving the services paid their share of the taxes to another taxing entity, but on the whole that all evens out.

I'm sure plenty of Fresno resident get into accidents in other jurisdictions after having paid their taxes fair and square. Is Fresno volunteering to pay the associated costs straight to the other municipalities and/or reimburse their residents if they get billed in a scam like this?? No? Their pharisaical concern for every tax penny going into the right slot only extends to those cases where they can RAISE revenue? Pigs.

[Gondring]

IANAL, but IIRC, in Pennsylvania, the law on the books says that speeding fine is $2/mph over the limit.

Yet a ticket for a few mph over the limit will cost you hundreds of dollars...after all the “fees” are added in.

Seems like the Commonwealth of PA is ahead of California locals!

[Eric Blair 2084]

In the interest of full disclosure, I am guilty of this.

I called the authorities and told them to set up a sting in front of my parents house to catch speeders.

It was funny when I did 90 down the block in my 1990 Ford Mustang convertible. But now my children and their grandchildren are trying to ride their bikes.

I knew how to handle it without a helmet as a kid. But I’m not taking any chances with my kids.

Ticket them, arrest them....all politics are local and personal.