From: leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis)
Newsgroups: ca.driving
Subject: Re: Buying a used car -> sales tax
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:10:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.210938.13926@aero.org>, helfman@aero.org (Robert S. Helfman) writes:
|> In article <5477@transfer.stratus.com> leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis) writes:
|> >I don't understand why they think people should have to pay sales
|> >tax on a used auto.  The original owner was already raped by them
|> >when it was first purchased.
|> 
|> Sales tax is a tax on sales - ANY sales. Every time something
|> is sold in the state, the tax applies, unless it's in one of the
|> specially exempt categories, like food.

The government has already taxed that car twice the first year, and
once every year after that.  Now just because someone sold it, they
want to tax it three times in one year.

First the original owner pays for plates, any unused part isn't refunded,
then the new owner pays sales tax, and then has to pay the new plate tax.
Not only do they get sales tax they already charged the previous owner, but
they also collect plate tax twice during the overlap in the plates.

The original owner already paid the sales tax once and they kept taxing
every year.  If the owner hadn't sold it they wouldn't have demanded
another 8.25%.  What did they do to suddenly earn it?  Nothing!

Charging tax on used goods is a crime.  The original owner already paid
the damn tax.  There was no value added.  Nothing they did anyway.
It isn't like they don't charge you for their paperwork.

|> Why do so many people in this country think they're over-taxed?

Because the government wastes the money on things like $500,000 grants
to see if tree frogs mate while hanging upside down or right side up.

The government never gets smaller, only bigger and fatter.  Most
people in this country are having to "tighten the belt", something
the government just will not do.  Look how long it is taking for the
CA budget to get balanced.  These people have no clue what it is like
for the average person to get by.  Every year the government gets
larger and needs more money just to meet payroll and rental costs.

When something happens to your income or costs you have to cut back
in other areas and make do with what you have.  The government just
raises taxes and continues spending like nothing happened.

Why is it that the government always solves problems by creating a new
tax and forming a new office to handle/spend the new income.  It seems
the answer to all problems is create a new tax and hire more people.

|> The tax rates (even taken as Federal, state, and local, together) are
|> still miniscule compared to almost any other industrial Western democracy.

One of the reasons many people from other nations come here when they
start really making some money.  This government is a few years growth
behind, give them some time they will catch up.

|> Just exactly what do you expect to run government with? Do you propose
|> to build your own roads every time to want to drive somewhere? Do you
|> propose to raise a private army?
|>  

They get plate tax every year and gas tax on every gallon of fuel you buy.
Stop planting flowers and start fixing/building the roads.  This state
spends big money on stuff most states just let grow wild.  They should
fix the roads first and leave the gardening to nature.

They are also trying to make it impossible to even own a rifle much less
form an army.  Remember one of the first things Hitler did was ban private
ownership of weapons.  It worked for him.
From: glaird@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Gordon Laird)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:01:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Buying a used car -> sales tax
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA