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I am amazed that you claim your are right when your own county's budget says you are wrong. Read it. Clearly Orange County is collecting more "car related" revenue than they are spending on roads. The fact that they are collecting an additional property tax to replace the road related revenue they blew on other things, is just an elaborate shell game. The politicians claim they need the money for roads becasue that is popular. If they told the truth, they'd never get the additional tax. You are merely helping them screw you by not insisting they tell the truth about where the road related revenue is actually being spent.
Yet another DUH! 4684Yeah, OK... its an activity that's traceable thru cell phone records. Its just one type of distracting activity. What about talking to someone in the car? Is that more or less...
To make it clear to you, here is how I see it:
For 2004-2005
Sudden slow downs. WhyNot necessarily. The radar is pretty fast, but it's being operated by a human being (who probably has...
Orange County Total Revenue was 4,630.9 Million Dollars (that is one rich county) Most of this money came from intergovermental transferrs Property Taxes only generated about 202.4 Million Dollars in Revenue Motor Vehicle Fees generated 145.6 Million Dollars of Revenue all by themselves
Look closely at page 524 of the budget (the Road Section expenses for 2004 -2005 were only $68 plus 1,117,502. This is over 70 million less than was collected from Motor Vehicle Fees alone in the year. And this doesn't include revenue from intergovernemtnal transfers, motor vehicle related fines and fees, property tax esrelated to motor vehicles and the motor vehicle industry, etc., etc., etc.
Now explain to me how property taxes are paying for the roads in Orange County.
You might also want to read page 246 mention that $23M of gas tax revenue is beign diverted to cover a prior bankruptcy.
Your politicians are screwing you.
Regards,
Ed White
