Posted on 10/27/2011 7:44:06 PM PDT by Daffynition
Here in New England, I think the only state that doesn’t have sales tax on a car is NH ...sounds like a good deal, eh? But their property taxes are outrageous....they getcha one way or another.
Jobs’ behavior [skirting license plates, parking in handicap spaces,] seems childish to me.
Hasn’t it been reported that SJ embraced Buddhism? Didn’t he learn anything about Karma?
Yearly reg fee depends on the age of the car.
The older the car, the less the annual reg fee.
CA is trying to get older cars off the road by making the smog requirements more stringent, and are offering up to $1,000 for cars built before 1989 or so.
No way they are getting my pristine, one previous owner, Silver 1988 BMW 325i w/Black Leather Convertible with just a few miles over 100k on it.
Best car I’ve ever owned, and I’ve owned a lot of cars.
Dependable as the Sun rising, easy to work on, parts are inexpensive and plentiful and while it’s not the fastest car on the road, it’s a real Canyon Carver and a blast to drive on Highway 1 to the Beach or to the Mountain.
I see. Here you can tell a car that is parked in the *hood.* The owner stands the plate in the back window and never ever has one mounted on the front bumper. Apparently, stealing front plates is quite common in urban cities.
I’ve seen and heard about people with *cute* front plates being pulled over....just one more reason for the cops here to harass the serfs.
In California, they also have “Red Light” cameras, which photograph your car/front plate if you run the light.
Another $300.00 or so dollars, which is another reason the state requires a front plate.
That’s what Sam Walton did along with Riffle racks and dogs in the back of the Pick up Truck. He would even wear jean suspenders and most people did not recognize that he was the wealthiest guy in America.
Funny to think about. Guess he just did not care and did what he wanted.
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We live in CT, but my husband is from CA. We spent a lot of time in CA (mostly in the Bay Area) during the 1990s. It seemed to me that nearly every other car I saw had no license plate, or some temporary plate. I always thought it was so strange to see thousands of plate-less cars like that on the roads...
Another $300.00 or so dollars, which is another reason the state requires a front plate.
Arizona does that too... but needs an extra camera to take a picture of the rear of your car at the same time.
We have no front license plates...
And yet you started this thread saying he wasn't paying property tax and was thus a cheap bastard.
It was in response to the comment: >>The leasing company would have paid the taxes....<<
*That* was why I posted ** I don’t know Cali laws. In my state that is not the case.** In my state, the taxes are due at signing.
Do try to keep up. ;)
FWIW, Dan Cochran, who worked at Apple, noted that one day someone converted the handicapped “wheelchair” graphic into the Mercedes logo.
“I thought it was hilarious but as I recall Steve didn’t find it particularly funny at all,” he notes.
Quipped former Apple executive, Jean-Louis Gassee, when he saw Jobs park in a restricted spot: “I never realized those spaces were for the morally handicapped…”
I’m surprised the Inventor Of The Internet and Apple board memeber iGore didn’t convince Jobs to drive an electric microcar.
Bingo - Jobs didn’t want an ugly “logo” on the car, so he left the plates off. It’s the most logical explanation.
A little bit of OCD can go a long way.
I recall after the stock market crashed in ‘87 and WalMart stock lost 100s of millions in value, one financial reporter asked Sam Walton about how upset he was with the turn of events. His reply was to the effect, “Well, I didn’t lose any stores, any inventory or any employees. It’s all here. It doesn’t make any difference to me. It doesn’t really matter.” Of course a few months later, it didn’t matter to the shareholders either, at least to the ones who didn’t sell.
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