Re: why is Fairfax County still collecting car tax after all these years? shouldn't it be zero by now? what happened to Gov. Gilmore's no-car-tax deal?
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Date: September 05, 2008 04:56PM
Once you've been thoroughly ass raped by your car tax, the government spits in your face by adding another $25 for a fucking $.01 sticker to show that you paid your car tax.
We should be able to do what other states do which is pay a yearly State tax and let them decide which counties and agencies get what. This is their job, for Christ's sake. This nickel and dime here and there is just a way to make it seem less painful and a way to keep adding to it so it's not that noticeable.
A friend of mine recently got a traffic ticket and the fine was $30, but the "court cost's" were $61. Where does that money go to?
Again, when I do the math on all this, it just doesn't seem possible that this state could possibly have a shortfall. In 2006 there were 7,642,884 people in Va. Of that amount, lets assume half of those people pay $100 per year in state taxes. That adds up to 3,821,442,000 (for those of you that can't fathom that number it's close to 4 billion dollars). The majority of us pay far more than that per year and that does NOT include all these other bullshit taxes such as car tax( average of $4-500 per year per vehicle). Lets do some math on that.
Population of Fairfax county in 2006 was 1,037,311. Lets say that one third of that number own one vehicle with a car tax of $200. That comes to $69,154,066 per year of revenue on top of what they get from the state.
Most of us in this area have reasonably nice cars with a much higher tax rate than $200 and many of us have more than one car, so do that math and tell me if you truly believe that you're getting your money's worth out of all these taxes you pay.
Don't even get me started on the constantly increasing real estate tax (equally as fraudulent as the car tax), sales tax or the 4% meals tax.
Folks, add up ALL these taxes and you can clearly see we're being ass raped and our schools aren't getting better, their getting worse and more crowded. Our roads are old and outdated and they'd rather build toll roads so you get raped twice. The only subway system we have to speak of is the orange line that only runs from DC to Vienna, and that was built decades ago and is in shambles. We still have nothing going north and south except a fucking Choo Choo train running on tracks built around a hundred years ago. We still have no bridge across the potomac river south of the Wilson bridge. Christ, they wouldn't even build the dulles greenway to help us out and had to have a private company do it and then charge us out the ass for the "privledge to drive on it.
The police are constantly wasting our money on new paint jobs for the cruisers and all these other bullshit vehicles they'll never use. The county paid a million dollars of tax money for a fucking conference table and even more for the building it resides in which remains half empty. Then there was the fire truck that cost's out the ass that was too heavy to drive on the roads. Oh, and the genius idea of changing the name of Rt. 50 through Fairfax to Fairfax boulevard (which costed a fortune just for the signs to be replaced).
It's bullshit like this causes the state and local government to run out of money and make us pay a "car tax".
BTW, my car tax this year is $550 so I get raped and don't even get lubed up.