In addition to tax increases on 80% of North Carolinians, including small businesses via service taxes, the NC Teapublicans plan to start nickel and diming tax payers with a slew of fees. Not content to do away with alternative energy incentives, the NC GOP wants some revenge on environmentalists by taxing hybrid vehicles.
Most of these hypocritical NC Republican clowns have signed the Grover Norquist tax pledge but that doesn't stop them from this rank hypocrisy. Nope, stealing from the poor and giving to rich campaign donors is a given for the Republican Party. That's their modus operandi: increase taxes the poor and middle class, outsource American jobs, encourage and support tax cheating by the rich, sabotage of the American economy, like voting to default on American debt, generally doing whatever they can to screw America. They plan debt default again this fall as we all know.
How they manage to convince millions of voters to vote against their own best interests is an amazing feat, but voting Republicans do it year after year. I usually go with the theory that they do it because they are hateful and/or racist and/or ignorant and they think being a Republican makes them superior to non-whites and liberals...
Owners of hybrids, which use gas but also have an electric engine, would pay a $50 annual registration fee. Electric car owners would pay $100.
Lawmakers say the fees are appropriate because electric and hybrid owners still use the roads but they pay less in taxes because they use less fuel. The gasoline tax funds highways in North Carolina.
The fees would mean $1.4 million annually for the state.
Environmental groups, and some hybrid owners, said the fee is a bad idea.
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