Dan Walters: Locals set revenue trap for non-local motorists

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 3/6/9 | Dan Walters

[MrB]

Hey, I’m not proud of our “infanticide at all costs” governor either.

It was amazing, though...

Even my parents were going to vote for her until I explained what she stood for.

As stated on another thread, leftists can’t ever be honest about what they’ll do when in power, or they’d never get there.

[longtermmemmory]

Since speed traps get called out and are even warned about on some GPS programs it is only natural that the local banana republics try something.

Of course the real result is the fact that now everyone everywhere gets screwed. This discourages freedom of movement.

I think you are right. Imagine for ANY stop if a city now requires a drug sniff dog. You get charged for that.

It will be the joke for the bank fees on bank fees.

[Syncro]

No problem.

I like to respond to posters that can't spell California

: > )

[Still Thinking]

OK, so the total of all taxes nationwide is enough to pay for emergency services needed nationwide. Granted there are edge cases where the person receiving the services paid their share of the taxes to another taxing entity, but on the whole that all evens out.

I'm sure plenty of Fresno resident get into accidents in other jurisdictions after having paid their taxes fair and square. Is Fresno volunteering to pay the associated costs straight to the other municipalities and/or reimburse their residents if they get billed in a scam like this?? No? Their pharisaical concern for every tax penny going into the right slot only extends to those cases where they can RAISE revenue? Pigs.

[Still Thinking]

Refer to my #24. The out-of-towners have already paid in full because they paid THEIR taxes, and somebody, someday, somehow, somebody from Fresno will have an accident in THEIR town. Imagine if both towns instituted this. They both get to keep all the tax money they collected, PLUS the money from this scam. So the cities net more money, and their employers have a net loss. It’s a shafting for those whom we care if they get shafted.

[Gondring]

IANAL, but IIRC, in Pennsylvania, the law on the books says that speeding fine is $2/mph over the limit.

Yet a ticket for a few mph over the limit will cost you hundreds of dollars...after all the “fees” are added in.

Seems like the Commonwealth of PA is ahead of California locals!

[Ditto]

It’s a shafting for those whom we care if they get shafted.

Sadly, shafting is the only thing that governemnt is good at.

Just imagine that you had to buy new auto insurance every time you crossed a state line or you left your municipality.

That's the same game these two bit political hacks are playing.

[Still Thinking]

Well, my point was that the three of you seemed to be leaning towards the idea that this might be a legitimate “fee for service” when in fact the city has already been paid for the expected number of accidents and if some of them happen to involve out-of-towners, well Fresno-ites get into accidents in other towns too, so what? If they get away with charging this “fee” they end up getting paid twice for the same value.

[Richard Kimball]

Note to self: don’t go to Fresno.

[Eric Blair 2084]

In the interest of full disclosure, I am guilty of this.

I called the authorities and told them to set up a sting in front of my parents house to catch speeders.

It was funny when I did 90 down the block in my 1990 Ford Mustang convertible. But now my children and their grandchildren are trying to ride their bikes.

I knew how to handle it without a helmet as a kid. But I’m not taking any chances with my kids.

Ticket them, arrest them....all politics are local and personal.