DMV fees another chapter in the GOP's great tax shift

For every selfish action there's a regressive reaction:

The bottom line is that middle- and low-income people lose on the shift. The pauper and the millionaire will both spend an extra 30 percent in DMV fees, but the millionaire will get a vastly larger savings than the pauper from the income tax cuts.

This inequity will be piled upon another in March. That’s when the 6.75 percent sales tax in many counties is extended to cover car repairs and installation and maintenance services. With the new tax, a $750 repair will cost the customer $800.

By all rights, the GOP's across-the-board attacks on the poor and middle class should result in a stampede to the voting booths in November. But they're counting on the two things that helped bring them to power in the first place: Lassitude on the part of Democratic-leaning voters, and social divisiveness that keeps religious people voting for charlatans because they say the right hateful words. Not much we can do about the latter; hate is harder to cure than cancer. But we can wake up those Dem voters, if we have the desire and the organization to do so.

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