This was in the fall of 1989 BTW - I bought my brand new 1990 Ford F-150 4X4 for about $13½K with the sales tax to get "an idea" of "what" a dollar bought back then.
What was the first things now governor Jim Florio did for the working man/woman?
•doubled the registration fee on vans & pickups - about $53 a year to $106
•more than doubled registration fee on commercial vehicles
•raised the sales tax
•applied sales tax to beer, wine & liquor that already was taxed
•gave authority for insurance companies to raise rates on (so called) "bad drivers"
•enacted the very first "assault weapons ban" in the nation
I can just see "what" may be in store for the (white) working man/woman with this past (stolen) presidential election.
Not to mention "hate speech" laws (Edward -Ted "the swimmer"- Kennedy was the first to mention them I believe) and of course going after "right white wing extremists" and "white supremacists" (we 'might be' lumped into that group) --- as they did Robert J Matthews on Whidbey Island, Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge or David Koresh at Waco --- with no positive outlook for the ending.
Then we have the now governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo ••••During his campaign, Florio said "You can write this statement down: 'Florio feels there is no need for new taxes.'" Florio won the election over Republican Jim Courter with 61% of the vote.
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Florio asked for a $2.8 billion tax increase, most in the way of a sales tax increase and an increase in the state excise taxes on various goods. It was the largest increase of any state in U.S. history.
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In May 1990, he enacted the stiffest laws in the U.S. on owning or selling semi-automatic firearms. However, in 1993, Florio vetoed a bill the Republican-led legislature introduced to repeal most of the law. The National Rifle Association lobbied hard to override the governor's veto, but the Republicans backed down.
https://safeact.ny.gov/system/files/doc ... atures.pdf