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No more half-measures, Walter.
Literally a joke amount, why even bother. I think 10x that would get the hogs squealing but I don't think that would slow down registrations, they love their trucks too much.
Probably because once a fee is in place, raising it isn't as politically fucked?
it's meant to be completely insignificant both to not raise a fuss from drivers and to not be effective at all
edit: the best liberal way of doing this would be to force drivers to actually face consequences from murdering people. The US is notoriously permissive with vehicular manslaughter charges only making most drivers pay fines, do community service, given probation and/or serve no jail time at all.
With that, vehicles weighing >=4000lbs/1800kg OR engine capacities > 3.0L OR power >250hp should be required to have a minimum $1-2M liability insurance policy. Car registration fees should also scale with these factors like some other countries do.
Best I can do is 25/50/25 for liability
To put it in perspective, even $300 a year would only be like 3-5% of the amortized cost of owning a truck.
I mean, how much does a propane tank really cost? I know fuck all about American prices, but I reckon you can get a decent sized tank of highly explosive propane gas for roughly 30 dollars anyway.
I can't win in an accident, but I can make sure we both lose.
wtf is our hank hill emote called
the emoji picker search: it works folks
you do not have to memorize all the inscrutable names
lmao I've got too much habit built around searching with
:keyword...so that by the time I open the picker I'm just scrollingWhy even bother to do this if it's such a meaningless amount
rile up the chuds, fan service for the libs and do nothing material all at the same time (aka bog standard dem strategy)
"accomplish nothing, but make the people you hate mad" could be the taglines of both parties tbh
idk the material effect of neoliberalism on the working class has been pretty significant and at least aligns with the bullshit chuds love (bootstraps, no free lunch, etc.). I guess that's pretty bipartisan tho in that libs believe those things too they just pretend it doesn't mean they hate the poor
Get the governor to line item veto the decimal place lmao
only wisconsin has rules dumb enough to allow that
Because the only way Colorado can afford to pay for anything (thanks to tabor) is to do a bunch of tiny random shit like this to raise money wherever possible