[SEDXC] About the Automobile License Tags ...
Gary McConville
wb4sq at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 3 14:19:26 PDT 2010
Is it just me, or didn't we have to buy the plate? Is this another case of eminant domain?
--- On Thu, 6/3/10, Keith LaBorde <klaborde at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Keith LaBorde <klaborde at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [SEDXC] About the Automobile License Tags ...
> To: "wb4sq at yahoo.com" <wb4sq at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 2:05 PM
> Law has changed...
>
> When you remove a tag, you have to turn it in to get the
> new one.
> You can't keep plates any longer.
>
> I sold a vehicle a while back, I didn't know any better.
> Took the tag off, and destroyed it.
> The person I sold my SUV too was from out of state.
>
> A few weeks later I get a letter from GA DMV wanted the tag
> returned.
> I had to pay a fine, and sign a document that I destroyed
> it...
>
> Thanks,
> Keith, K4KAL
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "wb4sq at yahoo.com"
> <wb4sq at yahoo.com>
> To: Weymouth Walker <weymouth01 at comcast.net>;
> "SEDXC at contesting.com"
> <sedxc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 1:14:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEDXC] About the Automobile License Tags ...
>
> If anyone pulls their ham tag off, remember to put on the
> front.
>
>
>
> -- Sent from my Palm Pre
> On Jun 2, 2010 10:33 PM, Weymouth Walker <weymouth01 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> THIS MAIL WAS FORWARDED TO ME ... I HAVE
>
> NOT ATTEMPTED TO VET THE MESSAGE ...
>
>
>
> Wey / K8EAB ...
>
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
>
> > -----Original Message-----
>
> > From: ARRL Members Only Web site
>
> > [mailto:memberlist at www.arrl.org]
>
> > 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
>
> >
>
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > ARRL Georgia Section
>
> > Section Manager: Eugene C Clark, W4AYK
>
> > w4ayk at arrl.org
>
> >
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