A San Francisco assemblywoman wants California motorists to help east the state’s $17.5 billion budget deficit by tripling vehicle registration fees for the next two years. Democrat Carole Midgen said her Assembly Bill 1753 would raise the $9 billion that the state owes local governments, sparing the beleaguered state budget from shouldering an additional burden. “When the state Legislature enacted the VLF rebates, we were giving back (to the local governments) surpluses that we had,” said Alan LoFaso, Midgen’s chief of staff. “But now we have a deficit.” LoFaso blamed the state’s current budget crisis on a 1998 law that...
