So whats Arnie doing @ california
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"Speaking from the Whitehouse for the first time, the new president once again pledged his pre-election promise to tackle the country's escalating drug problem. President Schwarzenegger announced that he was personally going to South America, and that he'd be back." (Taken from a Toyota advert on the radio) Anyway... Rakesh Rajan wrote: I heard that the elections got postponed...and from then on there hadn't been much news Arnie went postal and killed everybosy, despite the entire US Army being called in to take him out...
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David Wulff wrote: "Speaking from the Whitehouse for the first time, the new president once again pledged his pre-election promise to tackle the country's escalating drug problem. President Schwarzenegger announced that he was personally going to South America, and that he'd be back." Does anybody remember the Stalone film "Demolition Man", I think it had Wesley Snipes in it too. Anyway, in that movie (which is set some time in the future) at one point they talk about going to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidental Library! It was a funny line at the time, but now it's starting to look like life imitating art!
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David Wulff wrote: "Speaking from the Whitehouse for the first time, the new president once again pledged his pre-election promise to tackle the country's escalating drug problem. President Schwarzenegger announced that he was personally going to South America, and that he'd be back." Does anybody remember the Stalone film "Demolition Man", I think it had Wesley Snipes in it too. Anyway, in that movie (which is set some time in the future) at one point they talk about going to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidental Library! It was a funny line at the time, but now it's starting to look like life imitating art!
Yes! I can remember that! Stalone seemed very upset about the fact and said something like "Put me back in the fridge!". They also said that the constitution was changed in order to allow a not US-native person to be the president. Let's wait a few years and see if this can happen too!
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Jason Henderson wrote: The Car Tax (Vehicle Licensing Fees) are set to TRIPLE tomorrow Is this tax proportional to the size/power of the car?
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Jason Henderson wrote: The Car Tax (Vehicle Licensing Fees) are set to TRIPLE tomorrow. Geez, would someone please get this right! It's not a car tax, it's a registration fee. The fee was cut to one third of its normal rate a few years ago, when California's state revenue was at an all-time high due to all the dot-coms we had. This particular income source to the state was being given back to the counties and cities in exchange for the local revenue lost back in '78 from the passage of Ca. Proposition 13. When the economy was booming, there was pressure to give a break to all the car-owners by reducing the fee; the idea was that the local revenue stream was doing just fine without this source. Thinking ahead :omg:, our legislature included in the act reducing the fee a trigger to raise it again if the economy soured. Guess, what, that has now occurred, so the fee went back up. The only part that Gov. Davis played in all this was to pull the trigger by an executive order, rather than waiting for the legislature to handle this detail. He knew that was not going to happen, given the Republican attitude of avoiding all tax increases (even though this is not really a tax) and he needed to restore a revenue source to the state to make up for the recent losses. Hope this helps straighten things out. 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
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Jason Henderson wrote: The Car Tax (Vehicle Licensing Fees) are set to TRIPLE tomorrow. Geez, would someone please get this right! It's not a car tax, it's a registration fee. The fee was cut to one third of its normal rate a few years ago, when California's state revenue was at an all-time high due to all the dot-coms we had. This particular income source to the state was being given back to the counties and cities in exchange for the local revenue lost back in '78 from the passage of Ca. Proposition 13. When the economy was booming, there was pressure to give a break to all the car-owners by reducing the fee; the idea was that the local revenue stream was doing just fine without this source. Thinking ahead :omg:, our legislature included in the act reducing the fee a trigger to raise it again if the economy soured. Guess, what, that has now occurred, so the fee went back up. The only part that Gov. Davis played in all this was to pull the trigger by an executive order, rather than waiting for the legislature to handle this detail. He knew that was not going to happen, given the Republican attitude of avoiding all tax increases (even though this is not really a tax) and he needed to restore a revenue source to the state to make up for the recent losses. Hope this helps straighten things out. 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Jesse Evans wrote: Geez, would someone please get this right! It's not a car tax, it's a registration fee. Read the text inside the parenthasis. Vehicle Licensing Fees is the political term, but yes it is a registration fee and yes it is a TAX too. It is a debt due annually to the state of California. You can't get out of it, unless you sell your car. It is a TAX, but they gave it a different name.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
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Yes! I can remember that! Stalone seemed very upset about the fact and said something like "Put me back in the fridge!". They also said that the constitution was changed in order to allow a not US-native person to be the president. Let's wait a few years and see if this can happen too!
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Jesse Evans wrote: Geez, would someone please get this right! It's not a car tax, it's a registration fee. Read the text inside the parenthasis. Vehicle Licensing Fees is the political term, but yes it is a registration fee and yes it is a TAX too. It is a debt due annually to the state of California. You can't get out of it, unless you sell your car. It is a TAX, but they gave it a different name.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
Jason Henderson wrote: Read the text inside the parenthasis. Sorry, I missed that. :doh: Still, this issue gets to me more than most because very few people have taken the time to really understand it. (Of course that's because most people would rather watch a Friends re-run than think about politics, even though politics has a much greater impact on their lives.) Gov. Davis gets slammed for tripling the tax, when in reality he merely took the heat for the legislature by returning it to its previous level himself because that's what the law, passed by that same legislature, said is supposed to be done and the members of the legislature are too timid (or partisan) to make the tough decisions. 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
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David Wulff wrote: "Speaking from the Whitehouse for the first time, the new president once again pledged his pre-election promise to tackle the country's escalating drug problem. President Schwarzenegger announced that he was personally going to South America, and that he'd be back." Does anybody remember the Stalone film "Demolition Man", I think it had Wesley Snipes in it too. Anyway, in that movie (which is set some time in the future) at one point they talk about going to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidental Library! It was a funny line at the time, but now it's starting to look like life imitating art!
Wjousts wrote: Does anybody remember the Stalone film "Demolition Man", I think it had Wesley Snipes in it too. Anyway, in that movie (which is set some time in the future) at one point they talk about going to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidental Library! It was a funny line at the time, but now it's starting to look like life imitating art! As soon as I heard about Arnie, I thought of this movie.. It makes my chuckle... "The Schwarzenegger Presidential Library" just sounds weird. The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people]