The Government Is Coming For Your Cars

[Sam Mac]

LMAO most of the stuff on the road in my area is 20 years old running Farm Plates.

[Cub Cadet 123]

Swine!

Cub Cadet 123

[mortten]

It is true. $1,000 every 5 years.
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/201...ocument/HB2877

[john hall]

Well here in the GREAT county of Durham, NC here is how the old car game is played. On normal (not antique) cars, we pay a tax based on USE value. Well somebody at the tax office noticed that a 50 year old Mustang has basically no use value, so the tax was only a couple bucks. Well then some sharp bean counter figured hey, lets tax them on blue book value. So, the tax value on my 1966 Mustang shot to $16,000 (from an already too high $4,000) value. Yours truly called the tax office to protest. I was told if I could prove the car was in bad shape or real high mileage they would reduce the bill. I asked how do we determine if its high mileage? They replied show them the odometer. Now anybody that wasn't born this morning knows that on OLD AMERICAN cars the odometer resets at 99,999.9--back to zero. Good Lord only knows how many times mine has reset. Well since that plan wouldn't work they told me to bring in the receipts from where I had the oil changed and other service work done. First off, I do my own work, second--who in the heck keeps 50 years of oil change records--third--I didn't buy the car new--its older than me! Well they decided I could not prove it was high mileage, so if it was in bad shape, I could take off work, drive it to the tax office, they would come outside and assess the vehicles condition right there on the side of a downtown street. Yeah, like the folks that thought my odometer would record 1 million miles have sense enough to evaluate the fact the chassis has been welded back together, the doors don't shut proper, every body panel on it has filler in it, etc. Well I still wouldn't back down. I finally got hold of some lady that knew I was going to be an absolute PEST. So, she told me their dirty little secret. Take the tags off and turn them in. Get a set of Antique Auto tags instead. Sign a piece of paper saying it was not a daily driver, just a "pleasure vehicle for recreational use". Now my tags cost just a little bit more, but the taxes on the car fell like a rock because by North Carolina general statue xxxxx a vehicle with antique auto tags can only be taxed on a value of $500.
In the long run, tax and tags combined are less--and the taxes won't be going up unless a re-write of the law.

God as my witness this is a TRUE STORY.

[zippy1]

Originally Posted by Shrewcub

I'll bet you 5 gallons of gas a liberal wrote that bill.

Yeah, another libtard strikes again.
I hope this "global warming" starts melting away all these "snowflakes". As my father used to say, "they can piss up a rope, and suck the wet end."

[green 4 acres]

I posted this before
"How are the Chinese going to be able to build their ghost skyscraper cities unless we scrap or old iron"
I kinda liked the cash for clunkers program ,it got many a getaway car off the road ,I think you know what I mean