CA registration fees

[CJ]

Why did I think it would not happen?
Just recieved my registration renewal to the tune of $1200.00.
This is truly a sunshine tax, can't wait to cast my vote for governor.
I am interested to hear what other states are dinging us for.

[CJ]

Why did I think it would not happen?
Just recieved my registration renewal to the tune of $1200.00.
This is truly a sunshine tax, can't wait to cast my vote for governor.
I am interested to hear what other states are dinging us for.

[Buckeye Hummer]

CJ, I just missed the change. My fee was around $365.

Yes, I am voting for Arnold.

[89vette]

In PA its like $36.00 for registration. We also have annual inspections and smog tests that are about $50 or so dollars (I think). I don't know how you people afford to live there. Granted, I love the state but man is it ever expensive. I found a salary calculator on the internet that compared costs of living of various towns. I would have to make 3 times the amount of money I do now to live the same way in Southern CA. Want to live cheap? Move to Western PA. 40 miles East of Pittsburgh, rural setting, green mountains low cost of living 59 sunny days a year....Oh that's why people don't move here.

03 Sunset H2!
89 Vette
02 Escalade

[CJ]

I am planning a move, although not for a couple of years. By that time the whole fee structure will be repealed and sanity will prevail. Good thing it is tax deductable to an extent!

[DRTYFN]

Here in Oregon our registration is good for 2 years and only costs about $30. Custom plates add another $50.

[SJ]

Auto Registration is out of control here in CA; even before they introduced this hike. Gas prices are likewise the highest in the nation at about $2.15 for the regular 87 octane. I feel no right to complain, as I could always pick-up and move or buy a less expensive vehicle that gets better gas mileage.

Likewise, don't get me started on home prices. I've seen homes for $800K that are 3-bedroom/2-bath and only a smidge over 2,000sf. I'm not talking a few homes at this price, but a whole swarm of them in the San Jose area.

It's damn crowded here too! OK, rant over.

[Buckeye Hummer]

SJ,

We're in the same boat in SoCal. Gas is $2.15 everywhere but I did find 87 for $1.99 at a new 76 station in Los Feliz this morning. It's the lowest I've seen.

As far as home prices go its ridiculous. It helped us on our re-fi and will allow for a nice addition but c'mon the house at the top of our street was listed for $975K with only 1 more bedroom than we had AND the house was chopped up with at least 2 additions! I am amazed when I travel back home to Ohio how cheap everything is. My family built a 4500 sf house for half the price of our 1937 house in Glendale

But the trails out here are great!

[Albie]

buckeye where at on Los Feliz?
I have three cars ready for gas.......hehehe

[dostacos]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Buckeye Hummer:
SJ,

We're in the same boat in SoCal. Gas is $2.15 everywhere but I did find 87 for $1.99 at a new 76 station in Los Feliz this morning. It's the lowest I've seen.

As far as home prices go its ridiculous. It helped us on our re-fi and will allow for a nice addition but c'mon the house at the top of our street was listed for $975K with only 1 more bedroom than we had AND the house was chopped up with at least 2 additions! I am amazed when I travel back home to Ohio how cheap everything is. My family built a 4500 sf house for half the price of our 1937 house in Glendale

But the trails out here are great! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Where do you wheel in So cal and when are ya going next?

[Buckeye Hummer]

Albie,

Los Feliz and near the corner of edgemont I believe. It's a brand new 76 station. Filler up!

DosTacos I have wheeled 3 times so far but am planning many more trips/fishing/camping/biking you name it. I am new to it but love adventure and buying new things for my truck (thanks for the compressor info btw.)

So, I'm not sure when the next run will be with the SoCal group. I could be going as soon as this weekend on a very short 1/2 day trip but it's still up in the air. Where do you go?

[dostacos]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Buckeye Hummer:
Albie,

Los Feliz and near the corner of edgemont I believe. It's a brand new 76 station. Filler up!

DosTacos I have wheeled 3 times so far but am planning many more trips/fishing/camping/biking you name it. I am new to it but love adventure and buying new things for my truck (thanks for the compressor info btw.)

So, I'm not sure when the next run will be with the SoCal group. I could be going as soon as this weekend on a very short 1/2 day trip but it's still up in the air. Where do you go?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I hit up Anza Borrego, big Bear, Joshua Tree...

I run with Tacomas as a BIG group and with a jeep club [where I am always the big guy that is wider than everybody else.

I have been wheeling for 25 years.

[Buckeye Hummer]

25 Years, Bravo! I will be sure to continue picking your brain. Any fishing?

[dostacos]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Buckeye Hummer:
25 Years, Bravo! I will be sure to continue picking your brain. Any fishing?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

fishing? ah, quater stick and a dip net?
trade ya wheeling help and I will take fishing help deal?

[NCHummerman]

Yep, got my H2 renewal a few weeks ago ...$1034.76 ... check this -- I have a 1987 MBZ 300SL Roadster which for years was the minimum amount with a personalized plate --$89.00 and the renewal came in at the same time as the H2 -- $276.39 and this is the new California minimum with personalized plates. I believe that in California we are now going to have thousands of unregistered and uninsured cars driving around .... "real smart move by the Gov." !

Michael
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Pewter Hummer H2
Northern California

www.zootsuitstore.com
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[MAC]

My Hummer registration renewal is $361, due end of Sept 03.

It never cease to amaze me that the people who can least afford the higher taxes and anti-business leftwing state government are the ones who again and again voted in the same politicians, approved the bonds and voted for new taxes.

Price gouging on gasoline is so obvious, there is no reason why gas should be $2.25 a gal. in California while $1.40 in other states in the same country; yet no one is complaining loudly and no one is doing anything about it. A carbon copy of the energy crisis a couple years ago.

[Dix H2]

Here in NC the cost to register my H2 was $21.00. The orignal sales tax was 3%, capped at $1500 irregardless of what price is paid for any car. 87 octane is currently going for $1.50.

I moved from Ca about 7 years ago. I am a 3rd generation native of Ca and just couldn't take the BS anymore, plus a state that once was easy to live in and enjoy became cramped and not a happy place to be. In fact I also moved my Company and took about $3 million a year in taxable revenue with me. Will still do a lot of business there but a full arms length away.

Life here is good........the bucks go a long way and a lot of Californians are moving in.

Good luck to you folks still there.....

[MAC]

I was on a business trip in Charlotte NC not long ago, picked up a real estate magazine on the street, shocked to see big newer houses with acres of land selling for $300,000, similar size properties will sell for $3M here. I don't know anything about the quality of locations of these Charlotte properties, only judged by the photo and descriptions. Similarly when I looked at these real estate magazines in Tampa and other citites. Makes you wonder how much foundation/legs are under the high California home prices.

A new law SB2 if passed, Gov. Davis promised he will sign into law requires all small businesses with 20 employees to pay 80% of all health insurance, all businesses with 200 employees to pay 100% of all employees' entire family's health insurance, including all part time workers. If you are a business owner, would you consider to move?

Backed back $2M donation to the Democrates from the Indian casinos, SB18 will allow Indian commission to stop any delopement on anyone's land in California if they feel construction interferes with a sacred sit anywhere in the region, with no distance restriction, and the location of the "sacred sites" will be secret.

California is spending and wasting away like a gambler who won the lotto, but we have been doing that for 50 years, maybe it can go on forever. Or maybe we should stop complaining about cheap foreign competition, the problem lies within our own state, we are pricing and spending ourselves out of the game.

[NCHummerman]

MAC,

Where should I begin ---- We are in business in the SF Bay Area, and we do have more than 20 on Staff ... between this health insurance “fiasco” in California and the normal City Taxes and Licenses, the new Burglar Alarm Registration Fee, the City Payroll Tax, the City imposed 24 hour sidewalk security mandate ( we are responsible for any “incidents” or garbage left in front of our building 24/7 --- the fine is $300.00 per incident --- thus, we pay a neighbor to patrol when we are closed), without a doubt some of the worst traffic in the Nation, the outrageous parking fees, the 49% office vacancy rate, the 29% residential vacancy rate with residential rents falling well over 50% in the past 18 months, the increase in Homeless people on the streets --- something like 17,000 (Nov. 2002 SF Chronicle) in SF alone, we are in the third year in history of a population reduction in SF -- tax paying people leaving and total tax paying population dropping – thus, tax revenue dropping, the toughest residential rent control in the nation, a City with 68% renters and they get to vote on all measures including those fees and taxes which the property owners have to pay and cannot charge renters for, etc. etc. etc. ...... my wife and I have been looking for a home on the North End of Lake Tahoe, on the Nevada side ..... and possibly moving our business to Reno ….

Enjoy the weekend ...

Michael
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Pewter Hummer H2
Northern California

www.zootsuitstore.com
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