Vehicle Fee
Re “Villaraigosa Urges Freezing DMV Fee Cuts to Fund Schools,” Jan. 13: I think Assembly Minority Leader Scott Baugh (R-Huntington Beach) is right when he says the Villaraigosa measure is “dead on arrival.”
What intelligent Republican or Democrat up for reelection (or any antitax assemblyman) would vote to take cash from the pockets of those whose economic boom depends on underfunded schools to turn out low-wage workers to fuel it?
SCOTT MAYORAL
Los Angeles
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In 1991 the state raised the automobile license tax to the highest level ever in the history of California. This tax has prohibited many people from buying a new or newer car.
The huge 1991 tax was to be a “temporary” tax. Here we are nine years later and Villaraigosa and all the other Democrats in the state government are planning on spending this “temporary” money for years to come. This unfair tax should be abolished.
FRANCIS JANSEN
Northridge
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