JohnH wrote:
>>I was/am against it because it came in such huge lumps. Buy a really
>>nice car, and pay $450 twice a year. Would rather pay $70 a month or
>>so, $18 a week, anything but huge bites like that.
>
>
> Regardless of the friggin *billing frequency* (which usually people only
> care about when they live from paycheck to paycheck), it's getting the boot
> because it's a stupid and arbitrary double tax. We already pay a sales tax
> when we buy the car, what sense does it make to keep paying over and over
> again just for the "privilege" to own our own property?
>

Well, it's not unprecedented... real estate property taxes have been
around for a while. It was only a matter of time before someone thought
to start taxing people's other assets annually.

nate

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