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Every time the State or any other governmental body wants to introduce a new fee or tax and suggests that its constituents will pay less RED FLAGS should be waving. There has never been a time when new taxes have reduced the tax payer's burden.
Several years ago the voters of Washington state voted to repel the vehicle license tax. The tax was based on the vehicles age and purchase price. In 1998 my wife's new Toyota Avalon cost over $600 per year to license. After the tax was repealed it was $40. The state has been trying to find ways to recover that income since.
As a user of the roads in this state, I understand I have a responsibility to pay for what I use. But, I have enough cameras, microphones, etc. pointed at me. The state doesn't need a new tax. They need to adjust rates on current taxes. A new tax creates the need for more administration, if not infrastructure. Costs rise and less of our money goes to the purpose for which it was intended. It just gets eaten up in the bureaucracy..
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