re: State legislator moves to eliminate inspection stickers / brake tags

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Until it does

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Here’s the thing with the bill: it removes the inspection sticker requirement. But there’s a companion bill that was heard (and passed) ways & means that levies a new “motor vehicle inspection tax” of $10 so the government can still keep their money. Mostly state police.

I understand his intention, but Rep. Bagley is eliminating a fee from a governmental service (the inspection of your vehicle) and converting to a tax (a levy simply to raise money for government). I can’t see the House Republicans putting a vote for a new tax on their voting record in an election year.

What needs to be done is eliminate the inspection sticker and the $10. No fee or tax. But this won’t happen because...well...frick the state police.