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08-25-2011, 05:09 PM
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I pay around $250 per year for license, inspection, insurance, and property tax on my '95 Blazer. It's nothing fancy, but I'm nothing fancy either.
And since I use it for business, I can generally deduct about 75% of the total costs off the top of my taxes. And it also gets almost twice the mileage of my Chevy 3500.
I bought it a few years ago so my wife would have something to drive when it was bad out, and I figure it's already paid for itself. I like things that pay for themselves.
And if it blows up tomorrow, I'll sell it for scrap and be ahead of the game.
But I'm pretty tight when it comes to a vehicle.
Now my rekkord player is something else!!!
Chas
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08-25-2011, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by zman
That`s a real shame about Fla. charging 4X the fees. When I lived there it was incredibly cheap to register, I think buying the new plate was a little expensive but you only had to buy it once and it followed the car if you bought a new one just use your plate.
I don't believe Fees are a Rep. or Dem. thing though.
Here in California we are a heavy blue state and they are chomping at the bit to raise the tag fees. It is only through people like the California taxpayers Association and other advocates that it remains reasonable. I would suspect your state has a similar organization.
MAD I think is just that,When an organization is created it doesn't ever go away, they have funding to maintain, employees to pay and just like a business needs to keep going so what do you do when everything you set out to do is accomplished? You artificially create another problem and reason for existing.
I was just thinking about drinking establishments the other day , and about how every person leaving their establishments is breaking the law so how is it they can still stay in business, At one point or another you are either drunk in public or driving while intoxicated.
Me...I sometimes drink but I buy my booze first and never leave my home just like they want. Besides at 3 bucks a beer I would have to be crazy to go out.
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I'm not sure what states, if any, have adopted a dram shop law. I believe that England has. Under that law, the seller of intoxicating beverages is responsible for seeing that patrons do not drive if they are intoxicated when they leave. It makes absolute sense to me. The barkeep is selling intoxicating beverages for a profit (and at a substantial markup). Through the operation of his enterprise, people become unfit to drive. That makes it logical to put the purveyor of intoxication to the duty of preventing his intoxicated patrons from getting behind the wheel of a deadly weapon. It's also some pretty good preventative medicine.
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D-Ray
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08-25-2011, 05:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by d-ray657
I'm not sure what states, if any, have adopted a dram shop law. I believe that England has. Under that law, the seller of intoxicating beverages is responsible for seeing that patrons do not drive if they are intoxicated when they leave. It makes absolute sense to me. The barkeep is selling intoxicating beverages for a profit (and at a substantial markup). Through the operation of his enterprise, people become unfit to drive. That makes it logical to put the purveyor of intoxication to the duty of preventing his intoxicated patrons from getting behind the wheel of a deadly weapon. It's also some pretty good preventative medicine.
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D-Ray
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You'd be real popular down at "Gunny's Shack".
Chas
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08-26-2011, 09:26 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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Does New Hampshire have ANY laws?
I'm suing the supermarket for selling me potato chips.
Pete
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08-26-2011, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
Does New Hampshire have ANY laws?
I'm suing the supermarket for selling me potato chips.
Pete
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I'd have to sue Hersey's and Mars companies, and maybe Willie Wonka.
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D-Ray
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