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Both bills are terrible and poorly thought out. Lets address Macnamaras bill first. This bill simply kicks the can down the road for another 3 years. In addition, anyone who has a car older than 4 years old will see a tax increase. Presently, the vehicle value system works on a descending value. You pay 100% OF THE FULL CLEAN RETAIL VALUE for the first 4 years and then each subsequent year you pay 5% less than the 100% full clean value. The vast majority of the cars on the road would see a tax increase there by stuffing the tax coffers, which has we all know, go to pay for legacy costs, salaries, and healthcare. More importantly, the bill does not address the constitutionality of paying a tax on a ficticious value.

For example, a 2006 auto under this bill would pay 25% more tax than what is paid currently. Lets see this bill gather any strength.

Now for Shekarchi's bill. This bill again is not thought out whatsoever and the previous poster is partly correct. If one person buys a 2013 Mercedes Benz $50,000 car (such as Shekarchi's) and his nieghbor buys a 2013 Toyota Corolla $12,000 car, they both pay the same tax. How is that fair. What it does is give a tax break to people that can afford more expensive cars, and the vast majority of the people in the state will subsidise the Mercedes owners. And what about the people who presently dont pay tax in Warwick due to the fact that their car is worth less than $2000, I dont think that they will be happy with Mr. Shekarchi's useless bill that has zero chance of getting out of committee. Mr. Sekarchi has already argued that the car tax money should be evenly distributed so that the tax can go to support our roads. Presently we pay .52 cents/gal for road use tax that is getting squandered on both the state and federal level. In the citiies and towns, that money again, as in Warwick, is needed to pay for legacy costs, healthcare, and salaries. Not one penny of the revenue generated in Warwick by the auto taxes goes to the roads and it never will. I am surprised that Mr. Shekarchi doesnt realize that Warwick does not have a pot hole repair or paving program. The 1/2 million that was always set aside for roads was also squandered because presently Warwick has $660 million dollars in unfunded liabilities. $660 mil if you beleive the rate of return to be 7.5% which as we all know is not. Drop that to 5% and the liabilities go over 1 billion.

The solution is simple fair, equitable and constitutional. All cars should be valued at the "Average Trade Value". Period. The tax assessors and the union owned politicians will argue loss of revenue. When they do, I will argue as I have in the past, $8 million in free health care that needs to end, minimum manning that has to end, perpetual contracts that have to end, full time health care to part time employees that has to end, rediculously generous co-pays that need to end, sick pay buy back benifits that need to end. 15 paid holidays that need to end, and the unending theft of the city coffers that is overlooked, needs to end.

As a side bar, the car tax was supposed to have disappeared several years ago> Why is it back? ANSWER: PENSIONS, SALARIES, HEALTHCARE COSTS.

From: McNamara, Shekarchi address car values, taxes

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