A Jeffersonian In East Texas

Updated: 8/22/11
See this for an update on the illegal tax/double jeopardy called Texas Drivers Responsibility Program

If you know of attorneys who might be interested in getting involved, please let them know about this case before the Texas Court of Criminal appeals!

The United States began in a tax revolt. The revolt was about being unfairly taxed without having any representation in the government doing the taxing. We all know the rest of the story.

Today, we have many unfair taxes, inspite of our representation in Washington, but we do have the possibility of turning these over if we all band together and send the right people to Washington.

An unfair tax in Texas

Here in Texas, we now have something a little different. An unfair tax on Texas drivers which has had the effect of turning 10% of the drivers in our state into criminals. It was not passed by our legislators, it was forced into place by bureaucrats. You may say that it is not a tax, but that is precisely what it is. The program is the Drivers Responsibility Program.

If you are ticketed for any of the issues on their list, you will go to court, and the judge will issue a ruling. If you are found guilty, plead guilty, or plead no contest, you will be issued a fine. That is where it should end, the reasonable assesment of a judge based on the laws of our state.

Unfortunately, the folks over at the department of public safety don’t see it that way. They say you now owe the state a surcharge. It is this surcharge that is the offending tax. It was not passed by our representatives, but by a band of beurocrats bent on collecting more than they are due, and the proceeds were to go for a program to build a highway that would effectively have stolen land from our fellow Texans!

Furthermore, the surcharge is administerd by a third party company, who mails out the documentation in an envolope that looks suspiciously like junk mail, with no notice that this is an official state document. I suppose that makes sense since it is not an official state document. If you miss it, your license will be suspended, and the suspension notice will be mailed by the third party administrator in the same non descript envelope!

If you get caught driving after the suspension that you may have tossed out with the circulars in the mail, you will be subject to a frightening array of possibilities like having your vehicle towed, going to jail, and of course, more surcharges!

It is time for Texans to band together and put an end to this rediculous tax! Call your representative and tell them that you want the program to come to an end, and all the money collected through the program returned to it’s rightfull owners, those who were cheated out of their hard earned money by bureaucrats!

This would send a clear message to the folks in Austin that Texans are fed up!

Driving While Stupid

I have said this before on this blog, that if the State of Texas does not do something about the drivers who talk and text on their phones while driving, they should release everyone ever convicted of driving while intoxicated, apologize, and refund all their losses! Even the borg like creatures with devices that require no hands to operate. People who use these devices have the automobile operating portions of their brains turned off just like the people who use the devices requiring hands to use.

This little rant resulted from a KLTV story tonight on the subject. We invite opposing veiws to comment if you think you can stand the humiliation and ridicule that will follow.

Illegal Taxation: Drivers Responsibility Program Surcharge

An issue that our legislature needs to deal with is the dissmantleing of the ridiculous, missguided, and I might add, illegal tax otherwise known as the drivers responsibility program surcharge. Legislators, please do away with this travesty! It is a tax, it is not legal, it is responsible for making 10% of Texans criminals because they can’t afford to pay! While you are at it, please refund the money to the individuals who have  payed thus far!

UnTarp Tarp

Now onto Federal stupidity. It is time to do something about the insanity going on with our money. It would have cost less to solve the mortgage crisis if we had just bought everyone a home! It is ridiculous! We are being saddled with a huge amount of tax debt, and the money is being given by, and to the idiots who got us into the mess to begin with. As poor as I think Mr. Bush’s performance has been, and as incompetent as it was to actually sign this ridiculous bill to begin with, we can’t lay it all off on him. This problem goes back, at least to the Clinton administration for loosening the lending requirements. This is a result of the stupidity of both parties, and is a good argument for the introduction of a third party, along Libertarian lines. Neither current party has the moral authority to stand against the socialization or nationalization now that both parties have contributed to the fiasco, and that is frightening.

Interfering with the free market system is always a mistake, and giving money to banks to set on it instead of loan it is a big fat charlie foxtrot!

Jefferson complained that people were wanting more banks in his day, now we know why!