The license plate issue doesn't surprise me especially when you show they've turned it to a private contractor. No doubt one who has boned up on how they and the state of Texas as partners can suck some money out of citizens' wallets.
The toll road revenue angle comes through as a sore spot, and that brings to mind red light cameras.
And they've been prying around on the sales tax value on used cars, so it doesn't surprise me they've taken that to extreme.
The city of Houston is going to have a refererendum on red light cameras in the November election. I don't know if it's binding or not. It will be interesting to see the media blitz funded by the private contractors that run the cameras and collect the fines. The whole thing should be entertaining if nothing else.
I think our guy Rick Perry is OK on some issues, but his position on things like this probably don't match our views. Mainly he's the lesser of two evils, and has been previously too. Can you say Trans Texas Corridor?
To those of you that don't live in Texas, we've escaped having a state income tax for all these years, we are proud of that and it won't happen soon, but they keep busting us on everything else to get their revenue. Property taxes and appraisals are insane.
larry48, I appreciate your views and homework on this. I'm going to contact a legislator who I think is already in our camp on this and see if I can get his outlook on what may happen in the future and what maybe can be reversed. He's worked on that with some success on other things, not so much on others, but he has the right attitude.