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DAVIS SIGNALS PLAN TO SIGN SUV LEGISLATION
THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW | M. Garrett

Posted on 07/08/2002 12:02:33 PM PDT by MattGarrett

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To: LurkedLongEnough
No problem. Just turn away all SUVs at the CT state line, then hunt down and arrest the CT SUV owners and confiscate their vehicles. That should solve it, huh? No wonder you folks keep sending people like Dodd and Lie-berman to DC...
21 posted on 07/08/2002 12:18:40 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: dead
How are they going to tax mileage? Random odometer checks with bills handed out on the spot?

No, odometer checks during your yearly car inspection. But I was under the impression the 50-cent/gallon tax was pulled from the bill at the last moment because even the nutbag RATS in the Legislature knew that was going too far in terms of risking their political careers.

In any case, Rush is right. Davis is severely wounded now; Simon's kicking his butt in the polls. If Davis signs this bill into law, in the most car-obsessed state in the nation, it's over. Simon could go on national TV, announce he's having a sex change operation, is going to open a chain of abortion clinics, and that the spirit of Anton LeVey has taken over his body, and he'll still beat Davis by at least 10 points. And a lot of those RAT legislators, who put this bill together and rammed it through in (illegal?) secret meetings, are going to see themselves voted out as well.

22 posted on 07/08/2002 12:19:27 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: mykdsmom
My guess is that Davis will sign the bill only if he has already seen the handwriting on the wall regarding his re-election prospects. If Davis has given up hope that he will win re-election, he will sign the bill to buy money to re-elect other state Democrats. If Davis still has hope of winning, he will not sign.
23 posted on 07/08/2002 12:19:40 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Eala
I hate to pull a "Baldwin", but I have been thinking of moving to Colorado (where I grew up). If Davis is re-elected, my schedule might just have to be moved up.
24 posted on 07/08/2002 12:20:22 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Dimensio
Do you have any empirical evidence to show that a propensity to obey or ignore traffic laws is related to the type of vehicle one drives?
25 posted on 07/08/2002 12:21:51 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Tell you what...you stay in CT and let us deal with our problems...I venture to say that with the hundreds of thousands of drivers on CA freeways daily the statistics will show that we have the safest drivers and the fewest accidents per captia in the USA. And we sure don't need any suggestions from CT on what vehicles we should and should not be free to purchase and drive from you or Dimwit Davis.
26 posted on 07/08/2002 12:23:10 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: clintonh8r
Do you have any empirical evidence to show that a propensity to obey or ignore traffic laws is related to the type of vehicle one drives?

No.
27 posted on 07/08/2002 12:23:20 PM PDT by Dimensio
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To: MattGarrett
Gray Davis taxing the poor again; how predictable.
28 posted on 07/08/2002 12:23:27 PM PDT by Redcloak
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To: Eva
No, he is purportedly signing the bill by gambling that he can get the environmental voters back without alienating the soccer moms, who are notoriously stupid.
29 posted on 07/08/2002 12:23:44 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: TheDon
If this bill is signed and enacted to law, I'm gone..
30 posted on 07/08/2002 12:23:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: MattGarrett
So what is this going to do to RV drivers?

Just escaped from Kalifornia last Friday ... what a police state sh*th*ole

31 posted on 07/08/2002 12:24:08 PM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: GSWarrior
I guess it would be relatively easy from a technical standpoint, but politically it would be like trying to force all the men in the state to date Maxine Waters.
32 posted on 07/08/2002 12:24:34 PM PDT by dead
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To: LurkedLongEnough
The road is overrun with them, not to mention their brainless, dangerous drivers.

I don't see the relation there. There are bad drivers in all types of vehicles. I don't think they gravitate toward SUVs.

33 posted on 07/08/2002 12:25:43 PM PDT by ladtx
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To: dead
She looks like all the men in the state have dated her, if you know what I mean...
34 posted on 07/08/2002 12:25:53 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: dead
Sounds like the mileage tax will be collected when the vehicle is resold, like a sales tax.

If the bills stands that means on the road SUV's are going to be driven into the ground then scrapped.

35 posted on 07/08/2002 12:27:14 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: MattGarrett
The bill will affix a tax of 2 cents for every mile driven in an SUV, MiniVan or truck, 50 extra cents per gallon of gasoline, and $3500 on all SUV, Minivan, or truck purchases.

I believe the bill strickly prohibits the above actions but is expected to result in "mileage quotas" for cars sold in CA.

36 posted on 07/08/2002 12:28:25 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: Semper Paratus
Sounds like the mileage tax will be collected when the vehicle is resold, like a sales tax.

Actually the milage tax can be collected very easily. When the car is inspected or registered they will grab the odometer reading. The next year they will then turn around and get it again, take the difference in the mileage and then bill the poor SUV driver the difference.

Watch them make it a criminal offense to tamper with the odometers. I think mine would just have to suffer a fatal malfunction if this passes.

37 posted on 07/08/2002 12:32:16 PM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
38 posted on 07/08/2002 12:32:41 PM PDT by Free the USA
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To: kellynla
typo..."capita"
39 posted on 07/08/2002 12:33:27 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: sheik yerbouty
Yea, this and the other bill to use bonds to pay the day to day expenses of the state, rather than cutting back like the rest of us.
40 posted on 07/08/2002 12:35:42 PM PDT by TheDon
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