Front license plate on all cars in michigan!

Yes I am, that site is flat wrong. Nebraska charges property taxes on your vehicles when you renew your registration. lived there, I have family that still does. I didn't just pull that out of thin air. It was based on registering the same vehicle in both states in the same year.
 
http://www.dmv.ne.gov/dvr/mvreg/fees_taxes.html

HOLY SHIT. It would have cost me $912 in tax on the V, not counting the other registration fees which add up to almost $60! Last year it would have been over $1000. Next year, still over $800. I've never complained about Michigan's registration fees and that was just based on knowing how much cheaper the Lightning was in Michigan, the V is way worse.
 
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http://www.dmv.ne.gov/dvr/mvreg/fees_taxes.html

HOLY SHIT. It would have cost me $912 in tax on the V, not counting the other registration fees which add up to almost $60! Last year it would have been over $1000. Next year, still over $800. I've never complained about Michigan's registration fees and that was just based on knowing how much cheaper the Lightning was in Michigan, the V is way worse.

Massachusetts had an excise tax that was similar. Doesn't seem as bad as NE but it was still a bunch of BS.
 
I think the first time I renewed the Lightning I was in the low to mid $500 range total. So the original price of the car makes a big difference in the fees you pay in NE. But still, I'm paying less on the Cadillac now then I was on the Lightning in Nebraska.
 
I was jut talking to my dad about it and he said it likely won't pass and that if he were still elected as a rep (now County Commissioner since he was term limited) he would definitely not vote for it.
 
Yes I am, that site is flat wrong. Nebraska charges property taxes on your vehicles when you renew your registration. lived there, I have family that still does. I didn't just pull that out of thin air. It was based on registering the same vehicle in both states in the same year.

Ok, so your adding in personal property tax along with your registration fee?
They are two separate taxes. It sounds like they just choose to collect the personal property tax at renewal/registration.... Bottom line is it was more expensive for you.
All states make up their revenue in one form or another of taxes. Michigan is near the top of the list for taxes on fuel... about .10 over Nebraska per gallon.
Some have higher sales taxes/some have personal income tax.
 
Give me a break, the site you posted was still flat wrong, it is more than $15 even to just register a car in Nebraska even if you can some how justify saying that the "motor vehicle tax" isn't part of the registration even though it is charged by the DMV, is wholly detailed on the DMV site, is charged with the registration, and you are not obligated to pay it if you don't register the vehicle. It isn't just more expensive for me to register a car in Nebraska than here, it would be for everyone that owns a car that is less than 14 years old, at which point it becomes a draw at best. The average vehicle transaction price was over $31,000 last month. With it having been $300 cheaper to register the Lightning which was about right at that price. At the 16 MPG the Lightning got at best on the highway, I would have had to have driven 48,000 miles more in Michigan than Nebraska PER YEAR for the fuel tax to have made up for the fees paid to register a vehicle in Nebraska compared to Michigan. And that's with something that got terrible gas milage, a 32 MPG car would have to go even farther to call it a draw, again, I'm not an isolated example here. There's still nothing to complain about here and your attempts to justify anything or prove anyone wrong just totally fail.
 
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After I started to go to school in MI, I took the front plate off my NY-registered car. I removed the plate and bracket, bent the bracket and left the plate/bracket in the trunk of the car. In the 3 years before I became a permanent MI resident, I still lived in the NY 6 months of the year, and had exactly one issue with the missing plate. I went through a holiday weekend DWI stop in the middle of the day, and the State Trooper asked where the front plate was. I told him it got yanked off the front of the car in a "parking lot incident", and I had not put it back on yet, also noting the plate was in the trunk. The trooper told me to put it back on and let me go with no issue.

I think this is useless legislation, and hopefully I won't have to ignore a useless law. And.... what about motorcycles?

When did MI have front plates? My 79 Caprice front bumper has no provisions for a plate.
 
Sent my email. Here is my guy, if anyone else lives in this area

State Senator
PATRICK COLBECK
Serving Michigan's 7th State Senate District
Belleville city, Brownstown Twp., Canton Twp., Flat Rock city, Gibraltar city, Grosse Ile Twp., Huron Twp., Northville city (part), Northville Twp., Plymouth city, Plymouth Twp., Rockwood city, Sumpter Twp., Trenton city, Van Buren Twp. and Woodhaven city


http://www.senatorpatrickcolbeck.com/contact-me/
 
I just don't wanna put holes in the front bumper of the Cobra. Ford gave me the license plate frame thing for it to mount underneath so I guess the holes would be outta site, outta mind, but none the less it looks stupid.
 
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