[snopercod]

I guess I've gotten cynical about california, but does anybody actually think that there are 373,000 people who care out there?

After all, only the "rich" buy new cars...

[goldstategop]

The Vehicle License Fee is one that violates all good liberal principles. Its a property tax of a sort and highly regressive in its effect on who it hits most in their pocketbooks. Still you see the Democrats pushing it when they would be better off arguing the rich should pay more. Then again the Latte liberals in San Francisco/Marin County and the Hollywood crowd would be mad as hell. Let's face it, the liberals the Dems represent today are not your grandfather's Joe Six Packs. And for the record, I would like nothing better than to see them position themselves as the tax & spend party again. No way local government will ever see a dime of the VLF in the event there is a referendum in the works on an increase in the fee which by the way should be abolished just like it was in Virginia: no one likes it.