Thieves and Cutpurses!
giant ravenous maw of gubbmint
Gubbmint = FAIL
Sacramento is likely to join the growing list of California cities that place a “crash tax” on out-of-town drivers who get into wrecks inside city limits.
Which means dang near everyone who commutes to work there.
[’cept o’course the legislatorz]
...a minimum of $435 every time the Fire Department shows up at an accident scene, to $680 if a vehicle blaze is put out, to $2,275 if a helicopter is called in to transport…
The city would rely on insurance companies to conclude who is at fault for a crash. In many wrecks, all drivers involved are partly at fault, so the city would bill each proportionately…
The Association of California Insurance Companies warns that many drivers would have to pay the fees out of their pockets. If insurers do foot the bill, it says rates could rise for all drivers in the Sacramento region.
...The outside billing company would be in charge of resolving disputes from motorists and their insurers. But it would get paid through a percentage of the fees it collects...
This isn’t a snakes nest of conflict of interest—naah.
I’d be happier if there were a bunch of private companies I could choose to call to come and clean up. I’d even be happier if they were attached to the insurance companies. But when the Soviets Bureaucracy—backed by the Force of Law—is involved in deciding what response you will get, folks will be ambulanced for hair disarrangement, torn sweaters, wrinkled slacks…
Meanwhile…
Schools across the country are beginning the new school year with shrinking budgets and outsize demands for basic supplies. ...glue sticks, scissors and crayons ...two double rolls of paper towels, three packages of Clorox wipes, three boxes of baby wipes, two boxes of garbage bags, liquid soap, Kleenex and Ziplocs… multipacks of paper towels, cleaning spray and hand sanitizer are crammed alongside pens, notepads and backpacks
Yet, here in The Country, every single person in the District office gets a brand new laptop every other year. The old ones are wiped and “tossed away.” [find their way to the families and friends of the ‘puter wranglers]
Yanno.... a suspicious type of person—and one who could cipher—could begin to get a dawning of a glimmer that gubbmints might—just might --- be putting the monies they get from us, by Force of Law, to ill use. ...just a passing idea.
This morning’s radio talk show offerings revealed that tax increases for “education” are in fact going to fund teacher’s pensions. (I’ll try to track that down.)
If they’re gonna charge for fire & rescue, they certainly ought to be able to cut our taxes that go towards those things.
I wonder what the charge is for fire dep’t treed-kitten rescue.
“The old ones are wiped and “tossed away.”
Ar-r-r-r-r-gh!!! Do you have a link for that?
Posted by ZZMike on 08/18/10 at 02:42 PM
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