Democrats: High taxes / High fees / Big government

Republicans: Low taxes / Low fees / Small government

There’s your answer!

First off, great choice of car.

Oh, come on now. You are complaining about $264 a YEAR?

Going to dinner at a restaurant these days for 2 is like $60-70 on the low side.

If it makes you feel better
NA Miata is $120.
ND Miata RF is $385.
’11 BMW X5 is $214
’00 Audi is $142
’12 BMW 550 is $252

Plus all off them have a bi-annual smog, which is kinda funny since it’s all just OBD2 CEL check, except the 94 which is still a sniff test.

So clearly the solution is, get either a NA miata or ND, and then it dollar costs averages down to your current registration costs.

At least you’re probably stock. I’m heavily modified, though everything I do is CARB legal.

NeetaT: the problem isn’t high taxes — the problem is that Americans don’t get much back for their taxes compared to other developed countries. Shit infrastructure, shit public transport, shit education in many areas, shit healthcare unless you can afford very expensive private insurance.

California also pays more to DC than it gets back. Yeah, state vs Federal taxes, but if the money were kept in the state vs being squandered in Afghanistan, Iraq, and God knows where else, it would improve the situation.

And frankly, both parties have been guilty of being pro mass incarceration and pro perpetual war. The only hope may be the radical wing that’s starting to develop in the Democratic Party that supports spending money on actually useful things (see above), not welfare for defense contractors and private prison holding companies.

[quote=NeetaT]Democrats: High taxes / High fees / Big government

Republicans: Low taxes / Low fees / Small government

There’s your answer![/quote]

and you conveniently keep ignoring my comment… aren’t your 2018 taxes much more than 2017 because of the SALT deduction cap , which was instituted by the GOP? Why do you coveniently lie to yourself and deny this?

[quote=moneymaker]Ok so I checked Texas and you have to have a safety inspection done every year in addition to the registration renewal and smog. Just found out virtually every state requires mandatory insurance as well as smog. Registration is yearly not every other year like smog. Damn what happened to the old days when there wasn’t a charge for every frickin thing!
If I didn’t have 6 vehicles I probably would not care, so yeah maybe I should part with some of them!
1 truck
1 SUV
1 sedan
1 sports car
1 RV
1 motorcycle
Rarely drive the SUV or truck, but when you need a truck nothing else will do, of course they are both 4×4.[/quote]

You didn’t hear it from me, If you want to save the hassle from doing a biannual smog, register your cars in one of the few zip codes that don’t require biannual smog. Some of them are in Riverside county. If your car is for race/off-road only, elect PNO. But then you’ll need to trailer it to events.