Taxing You for Not Paying a Tax
[High Praise! to The Real Revo]
From The Seattle Times:
Owners of electric cars in Washington state don’t buy gasoline or pay gas taxes, but they’re soon going to be hit with a $100 fee to own the battery-operated cars.
A section of Washington state law that takes effect [on Feb 1, 2013] will require electric-car owners to pay a $100 annual fee for road and highway improvements, intended to compensate for the gas taxes they no longer pay.
Part of me wants to giggle with malice and schadenfreude.
Part of me wants to dress up like an Indian and start tossing electric cars into Boston Harbor (or Puget Sound, as the case may be).
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January 2nd, 2013 at 7:03 pm
The batteries are heavy so lift with your legs.
January 2nd, 2013 at 7:28 pm
Take that, you Prius-donnas!
January 2nd, 2013 at 8:42 pm
Be careful, if any of them are Fisker Karmas, they sometimes catch fire when they get wet:
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics2012nov05/fisker-karma-6171.shtml
I suppose that could be just how they show how much they don’t want to be in New Jersey though.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:22 pm
Harvey, I live on Puget Sound. Okay, not on it, but next to it as in the water is part of my front yard. So, no electric cars in the water! Ship ‘em to tree-hugging Oregon.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Keep the electric cars out of Boston Harbor, too! We worked hard to clean it up and it’s bad enough with all those liberals living near it.
January 3rd, 2013 at 12:39 am
You know, until Elizabeth warren gets around to throwing something into a harbor, she can’t even get fake indian right.
January 3rd, 2013 at 1:46 am
Democrats run Washington sooo…what can be taxed will be taxed! It’s the Democratic way.
January 3rd, 2013 at 7:42 am
hmmmm, so what about all the a$$holes on bikes? They pay $0 in gas taxes but are just as, if not more obnoxious than Prius pricks, so I say charge them $500.
January 3rd, 2013 at 11:43 am
RALPH WIGGUM: “Ha, ha”
January 3rd, 2013 at 11:45 am
@9 – Actually, that’s Nelson Muntz’s line.
Ralph would say something like “My electric car smells like burning”.