[SEDXC] About the Automobile License Tags ...

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If anyone pulls their ham tag off, remember to put on the front.



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On Jun 2, 2010 10:33 PM, Weymouth Walker <weymouth01 at comcast.net> wrote: 

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Wey / K8EAB ...

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> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 5:11 PM

> To: ------ at bellsouth.net

> Subject: About the Automobile License Tags

>

> Many of you have asked me about this, and about what

> we can do.  In a word, we have been quietly and secretly

> "had" by our state legislators and governor, and at this

> point there is nothing we can do.  This was done by the

> legislature quickly before any of the public could know

> anything about it.  Remember this during the next 

> elections.

> The word from our ASM for Legislative Affairs Jim Altman,

> W4UCK is as follows:

>

> "They attached user fees to everything in sight.  Anything

> that had a fee attached, the fee was raised.  Anything 

> 'fee-able' that didn't have a fee, got one.  A different 

> example: there was an act passed called the "Judicial 

> Operations Funding Act."  It doubles all the filing fees 

> for civil cases, they increased the "copy cost" for 

> records on appeal to $10.00 per page (which can be 

> hundreds, even thousands of pages).  NOT ONE DIME of any 

> of these "user fees" goes to fund the operation paying the 

> fee, it ALL goes to the general fund.  Annual corporate 

> registration fees went from $30.00 to $50.00. This was 

> not, I REPEAT NOT a tax increase.  See HB1055

>

> Nothing has changed about the existence or ability to 

> obtain

> our plates.

>

> The code section providing for our plate 40-2-75 has been

> repealed along with many others and replaced by the 

> provisions of  40-2-86.1

>

> Our plates fall into a category of non-revenue sharing

> special plates.  'Non-revenue sharing" means a plate that 

> is

> not on behalf of  some organization that gets a cut of the

> proceeds of the sale of  the plates.  We will now pay 

> $25.00

> for the manufacture of the plate, a special license plate 

> fee (annual) of $35.00.  All the money raised goes to the

> general fund.  So do the volunteer firefighters.  (HB 1055

> section 1-77)

>

> There is absolutely nothing the Governor or anyone else 

> can

> do about this now. The Governor can not "repeal" nor 

> revise

> a single word of the law.  The only thing that can be done

> is to elect a legislature that will have the honesty and 

> courage to call a tax increase what it is, a tax increase, 

> and

> to do so in a straight forward manner,  like, raise taxes, 

> instead hiding behind this sort of stuff.  This was all 

> done in less than an hour on the 36th day of the session."

>

>

> Jim Altman

> jaltman at altlaw.com

>

> So my recommendation is that Georgia hams vote with our

> feet:  Boycott the Amateur Radio License tags until the 

> fees

> are dropped. That way they don't get our money and perhaps

> they get our message.  And above all, vote all of them out

> next election.

>

> Eugene C. Clark, W4AYK, Section Manager, Georgia

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> Section Manager: Eugene C Clark, W4AYK

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