Dear Editor,Senate Bill 108, now sliding through the state legislature on a party-line vote, more than doubles car registration fees, then diverts the money elsewhere. It also promotes installing spy devices in our cars to track how many miles we drive and tax us on each mile.Why? Isn’t our simple gas tax enough control for Big Brother? Neither radical change would seek voter approval, as the Constitution requires of all tax increases.Our tax reform petition, just filed with the state, gradually reduces vehicle and other taxes. We also limit registration fees that can be hundreds of dollars yearly. We set the fee to process that simple form at $10. We also cancel SB 108.We limit multiple taxation. Right now, we all pay a sales tax to buy a car. Those are the highest sales tax amounts of any purchase in our lives – often $3,000 or more. But then we pay an ownership tax to own what we already bought. That tax can be thousands of dollars over a car’s first nine years. Our petition solves those and many other fairness problems in 283 simple words.Tired of being exploited and abused? Contact us at taxreform@frii.com to commit to collecting 200 signatures each, which takes fewer than 20 hours in front of a busy store.Readers may learn more or volunteer at www.COtaxreform.com. When your children and grandchildren ask what you did when Big Government took away your money and your rights, what will you say?Jeff Gross
