Article: Car tax fever.(The Orange County Register 12/13/01)

The flowing editorial appears in The Orange County Register on Dec. 13, 2001.

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It sounds like a horror movie sequel: Return of the Car Tax.

In 1991, the state imposed a car tax of 2 percent of value to try to deal _ it turned out unsuccessfully _ with the budget deficit of that year. The tax was supposed to be temporary. But when the economy recovered in the mid-1990s, it still took political teeth-pulling beginning in 1998 to cut the tax by 67.5 percent.

Now, the tax cut could be repealed. "The state has been rebating the car tax to consumers, but giving cities and counties so-called `backfill' money from the state's general fund ...

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