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A little bit too much

Tue., April 14, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

Legislators approve higher car fee? Are you kidding me? After the untold billions of dollars of our tax money we’ve already shoveled into this bottomless pit of inefficiency and mismanagement? The idea should be to do something that will give buyers incentive to buy a new car, not drive them away. It’s not that the extra $100 is a big deal, but it’s the “little bit here, little bit there” that really mounts up and hurts.

As far as I’m concerned, these bogus document fees are one of the dealerships’ costs of doing business. Deal with it.

Tom Starr

Spokane

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