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The
Expired Meter, a website devoted to people who persist in driving automobiles
around Chicago, gave us a video recently about how to remove those vehicle
stickers from your car’s windshield.
AND
THEY HAD none other than City Clerk Susana Mendoza give us a personal
demonstration – Windex and razor blade in hand – as she got one of those
stickers off fairly cleanly.
Because
depending on where you live (in Chicago, it’s July 15), the deadline for making
that purchase (I made mine about a month ago) to your municipality so they can
have money in their road repair funds is likely coming up. June 30 seems to be
a popular deadline for many local governments.
Unless
you happen to live in a place that doesn’t think to charge such a fee and
require you to mar your windshield.
I
once lived in such a place (Springfield, Ill.) for a few years, and I still
remember the blank look I got from their city clerk’s staff when I actually
inquired about when their deadline was.
YOU’D
HAVE THOUGHT I suggested Communist propaganda by wondering when I’d have to buy
a sticker.
Of
course, there are other places where the local police scour their
municipalities for cars without stickers so intensely that they wind up
ticketing car owners from places that don’t require their residents to make
such a purchase. Which means those motorists have to go to court to prove they
did nothing wrong!
Springfield
also makes up for it by charging a city tax (1 percent, on top of all the other taxes and
fees) on all its residents when they purchase automobiles – even if they buy
them outside of the capital city.
I
did just that when I lived down there, then found myself being sued by the city
a couple of months later. Fortunately for me, they were eager to drop the
lawsuit once I paid up!
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