Nationwide Tax Revolt Is Coming

[TraderZones]

Quote from ASusilovic:

Cities, states, and municipalities have a huge budget problem. That problem is caused by too much spending. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce expenditures.

Instead Cities Turn to Fees to Fill Budget Gaps.

After her sport utility vehicle sideswiped a van in early February, Shirley Kimel was amazed at how quickly a handful of police officers and firefighters in Winter Haven, Fla., showed up. But a real shock came a week later, when a letter arrived from the city billing her $316 for the cost of responding to the accident.

“I remember thinking, ‘What the heck is this?’ ” says Ms. Kimel, 67, an office manager at a furniture store. “I always thought this sort of thing was covered by my taxes.”

It used to be. But last July, Winter Haven became one of a few dozen cities in the country to start charging “accident response fees.” The idea is to shift the expense of tending to and cleaning up crashes directly to at-fault drivers. Either they, or their insurers, are expected to pay.

With the economy flailing and budgets strained, state and local governments are being creative about ways to raise money. And the go-to idea is to invent a fee — or simply raise one.

Ohio’s governor has proposed a budget with more than 150 new or increased fees, including a fivefold increase in the cost to renew a livestock license, as well as larger sums to register a car, order a birth certificate or dump trash in a landfill. Other fees take aim at landlords, cigarette sellers and hospitals, to name a few.

Wisconsin’s governor, James E. Doyle, has proposed a charge on slaughterhouses that would be levied on the basis of each animal slaughtered.

Washington’s mayor, Adrian M. Fenty, has proposed a “streetlight user fee” of $4.25 a month, to be added to electric bills, that would cover the cost of operating and maintaining the city’s streetlights. New York City recently expanded its anti-idling law to include anyone parked near a school who leaves the engine running for more than a minute. Doing that will cost you $100.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/04/nationwide-tax-revolt-is-coming.html

ROFL ! LOL ! I would buy a flight ticket and leave this country !

Try going to college. The "fees" are like 20-25% of the "tuition" at many state schools. it is their way of making tuition "cheaper."

 

[sttrader]

I left 20 years ago and was planning on moving back but seeing how things were during the Bush years I stayed away. Thought things would change with Obama but with Gates and Geithner, I've realized that those in power are still in power even though the President changes. Visiting the US is fine but I'll never move back. You see things differently once you leave the States.

Quote from ASusilovic:

Cities, states, and municipalities have a huge budget problem. That problem is caused by too much spending. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce expenditures.

Instead Cities Turn to Fees to Fill Budget Gaps.

After her sport utility vehicle sideswiped a van in early February, Shirley Kimel was amazed at how quickly a handful of police officers and firefighters in Winter Haven, Fla., showed up. But a real shock came a week later, when a letter arrived from the city billing her $316 for the cost of responding to the accident.

“I remember thinking, ‘What the heck is this?’ ” says Ms. Kimel, 67, an office manager at a furniture store. “I always thought this sort of thing was covered by my taxes.”

It used to be. But last July, Winter Haven became one of a few dozen cities in the country to start charging “accident response fees.” The idea is to shift the expense of tending to and cleaning up crashes directly to at-fault drivers. Either they, or their insurers, are expected to pay.

With the economy flailing and budgets strained, state and local governments are being creative about ways to raise money. And the go-to idea is to invent a fee — or simply raise one.

Ohio’s governor has proposed a budget with more than 150 new or increased fees, including a fivefold increase in the cost to renew a livestock license, as well as larger sums to register a car, order a birth certificate or dump trash in a landfill. Other fees take aim at landlords, cigarette sellers and hospitals, to name a few.

Wisconsin’s governor, James E. Doyle, has proposed a charge on slaughterhouses that would be levied on the basis of each animal slaughtered.

Washington’s mayor, Adrian M. Fenty, has proposed a “streetlight user fee” of $4.25 a month, to be added to electric bills, that would cover the cost of operating and maintaining the city’s streetlights. New York City recently expanded its anti-idling law to include anyone parked near a school who leaves the engine running for more than a minute. Doing that will cost you $100.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/04/nationwide-tax-revolt-is-coming.html

ROFL ! LOL ! I would buy a flight ticket and leave this country !

 

[S2007S]

UN FU$KING BELIEVABLE

The system is broken.

 

[lrm21]

Hey we knew what was coming.

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The beatles warned us

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Once my kids are in college I will stop paying any taxes, I don't feel are worth it.

Molon Labe.

 

[RiceRocket]

Quote from lrm21:

Hey we knew what was coming.


The beatles warned us



Once my kids are in college I will stop paying any taxes, I don't feel are worth it.

Molon Labe.

That's the problem with the two party system. They can just keep blaming eachother ad infinitum, since they're both really on the same side. They allow the dumb voters to express their anger at the party that is currently in office. The republicans run the national debt up, get voted out, then the democrats raise taxes to pay for it. Rinse, wash, and repeat. Until we have a choice outside the military industrial complex/cronie capitalist regime, there will be no difference in the way the us government governs.

 

[larrybf]

WHATEVER happened to criminal investigations of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd????

 

[gangof4]

Quote from achilles28:

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worth it just for the pixies. one of the better song placements in the history of film imo.

 

[AK100]

What happens in the US has a habit of coming over the the UK.

I'll therefore give it 2 years till the traffic accident bills start arriving through the post here in the UK.

 

[nutmeg]

But a real shock came a week later, when a letter arrived from the city billing her $316 for the cost of responding to the accident.
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This is the logical conclusion of Chris Rock's "What do you want? cookie."

"I take care of my kids"

"What do you want a cookie?"

"You moron, you're supposed to take care of your kids."

We have been conditioned to getting something extra for doing what we are supposed to do.

Now we will pay for responders to do what they are supposed to do with the tax dollars we already pay for.