WA Ping
The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to charge electric coal powered car owners a $100 annual fee to compensate for the lack of gas taxes they pay
Posted on 02/12/2012 8:28:35 PM PST by massmike
The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to charge electric car owners a $100 annual fee to compensate for the lack of gas taxes they pay. Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, the Camano Island Democrat who sponsored the bill, says while electric cars are good for the environment, they put the same wear and tear on the state's roads that gas vehicles do.
The same bill passed in the Senate last year but failed in the House.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
How often will this be increased?
Isn’t electricity already taxed?
Sorry, but I just gotta laugh my ass off on this one.
Next, a “fee” on non-smokers.
WA Ping
The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to charge electric coal powered car owners a $100 annual fee to compensate for the lack of gas taxes they pay
If every driver in the US had to pay $100 a year just because, then that could raise more than $21 billion annually.
Oh wait, how much do drivers licenses cost these days?
Lets not keep giving them ideas.
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OT...
What is to be made of this?!?
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...from the same people that just brought gay “marriage” to Washington State........
HA! - That’s funny as all get-out!
So you not only have to pay for the electricity to charge the thing, you have to pay $100 more? LOL
Are they taxing bicycles yet????
More evidence this is all a scam.
But there are Federal and local taxes on their utility bill and I’m sure that went up. In fact, I’d like to know how much their bill went up.
In the Keystone State most road maintenance is funded through liquid fuels taxes. Makes perfect sense to me.
They don't eat if they aren't stealing it from someone's pocket. What they know isn't worth anything on the open market so...they gotta get into government and tax.
What's truly hilarious is that they don't understand the hypocrisy. Here in California they fine us if we use too much water...but then when people start conserving, they raise the rates.
Why? Because they aren't selling as much, so ya unnerstan, we gotta raise your rates.
Rats tax. That's all.
Me too, bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
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