CALIFORNIA: Senate approves bill allowing counties to raise vehicle fees

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 6/1/11 | Paresh Dave

[SmithL]

Individual counties could vote to raise vehicle fees under a bill that earned Senate approval today.

"This gives counties a tool they currently don't have in a time of crisis," said bill author Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.

In 2003, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped the rate of what essentially is an annual tax on a vehicle's present value. The rate change from 2 percent to 0.65 percent took away a chunk of revenues counties relied on to pay for public safety and social services. A temporary increase to 1.15 percent went into effect in May 2009 and expires at the end of this month. Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan calls for moving the expiration to 2016.

The proposal that passed the Senate by a 23-15 vote today allows a county board of supervisors, with a two-thirds vote, to authorize a vote for higher fees on county residents.

[South40]

At a time when many Californians are barely paying their bills if at all the state thinks they can pay more but they want the counties to take the heat for it.

Liberals are insane.

[ColdOne]

I am so glad I moved out of that state.

[FormerACLUmember]

Brilliant.

This will certainly stop the jobs and business rushing out of the state.

California is in the hands of the geniuses of the planet: the democrat party.

Their role model is Greece. Literally, Greece.

[NoLibZone]

Fed
State
County
Soon street by street taxes.

All with their hands put for Unions.

[EGPWS]

Liberals are insane.

Redundancy at it's best.

[funfan]

Not only does SB653 allow counties to raise vehicle fees with a vote from the electorate it allows School Boards to levy taxes and Also Levy a “Personal Income Tax” for the city. I read about this last night and almost flipped. I live in San Mateo Calif which is extremely liberal and they are forever putting School Parcel Measures on the ballot and they always pass. I have about $1500.00 just for school measures on my tax bill in addition to my property taxes. Now they will have the ability to make us pay and additional income tax for our city we currently pay 10% income tax for the state. This is crap. http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/SB_653/20112012/

[television is just wrong]

it will follow youl.

[bp22]

For later.

[scooby321]

The last America to leave turn off the lights. I feel sorry for the homeowners of California who want to leave.

[newzjunkey]

Insanity!

[funfan]

Oh I made a mistake the Leno Bill SB 223 is what this article is taking about and it does just cover the VLF fee
allowing counties to vote on it. I need to look at the status of the Steinberg Bill SB653 for all I know they will pass both of them after all they can pass either of these bills with a simple majority the Democrats run the show here
and are attempting an end run around having to have Republicans vote to extend Temporary taxes to lessen the budget shortfall. Mind you they were supposed to take care of the budget woes when the so called temporary taxes were passed it did not help and now the Dems and MoonBeam want to extend the taxes. UGH!
Pitiful

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SmithL.

"This gives counties a tool they currently don't have in a time of crisis," said bill author Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.

Naw, the voters who elected Mark Leno did that.

[NormsRevenge]

and then ya got a passel of parcel taxes popping up all over..

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Isn’t it nice how all these legislators are able to delegate out the responsibilities they supposedly ran for to local gubamints for certain things so they can pass more social re-engineering legislation? (which is what they really ran for)

Dereliction of duty or out and out abandonment?

You make the call.

[hinckley buzzard]

Shifting costs back and forth between state, county, and local governments is a big part of every state's efforts to stay solvent. In Ohio, Kasich stopped various state payments to cities. Cleveland responded by laying off about 80 police and a few random vermin, instead of cutting corruption, and blamed it on Kasich for "cutting police coverage." Typical garbage that passes for governance in the good ol' USA, circa 2011.

[TheOldLady]

Me too.

[ExTexasRedhead]

More leaving CA by the hour. Illegals will be the only ones left along with the RATs in downtown Sacramento aka the CA sewer.

[exDemMom]

Me three.

[SoldierDad]

Job hunting for out of state job will summarily commence.

[TheOldLady]

Hard to leave the relatives behind, but easy to leave the leftist destruction. No question.