2% is 2% too many. That is not feel-good legislation, that is improving road safety by 2%.

Poor or not, automotive malfunctions can lead to bystander and innocent motorist deaths.

Pffft. I live in the second poorest state in the country (which happens to have the poorest county). We’ve had state inspections for decades. The only people who complain are all over 80, most of’em still bitching gas ain’t $.37/gallon. Paying $12 and making sure your brakes actually work ain’t that regressive a…

Then implement those inspections in a useful way so that abuse will be difficult. You can never fully prevent it but you can go a long way.

No shop has ever had the legal authority to hold a car over a safety issue. We can’t throw out the baby with the bath water here. Shady shops will always exist regardless of whether or not inspections are required. 

It’s not as bad as not affording a bus pass. It’s more, bus passes don’t exist because there are no bus routes.

Dangerous as in they lose a wheel on the highway, bald tires, bad brakes, collapsed suspension, everything that can lead to avoidable situations were people will get hurt due to negligence (lack of funds included).

Maybe you could ask Elizabeth Ibey about how she feels about this regressive tax on the poor? Oh shit, wait...

I would say that you are looking at this the wrong way. If you own a car you should be able to afford to keep it in safe condition. If that means doing the hard work yourself or paying a shop to do it, it doesn’t matter. It is all part of owning a car.

Which poor people can’t afford those things either, and yes more readily available and affordable public transportation would ease some of these issues.

It isn’t a right, it is a privilege to operate a 2 ton machine at high speeds. If you can’t be diligent or afford the maintenance to properly operate the machine you should be SOL.

My state doesn’t have any inspection and the other day I came across someone whose brake lights didn’t work. At all. The person was at least considerate enough to stick their arm out the window and signal, but damn.

Yeah ok, some people don’t have enough money to safely maintain their car, so let’s just allow them to kill people.

I’ve come to a similar theory. Most of the CEOs I’ve know were pretty eccentric, which I guess is common with ambitious people, though there are laid back ones. The zealous CEOs can also be annoying as shit and have no idea how their product is actually made. I don’t need a peptalk every single time we have a meeting…

Tbh the normal ones don’t need the attention of becoming the face of the company. When someone grabs the attention that much it’s for ego not the company.

You have good instincts that I believe are corroborated by the few studies that exist on high functioning sociopaths.

It’s simple- people with no boundaries are the ones who can dive in and make a vision happen from nothing. Rule followers are essentially incapable of such things. But the no boundaries types also tend to think it’s alright to FaceTime from the toilet or admire a subordinates boobs with her hands. Having no boundaries…

Honestly, I blame Steve fucking Jobs, since him everybody wants hip executives.

Yeah, I didn’t need to get any further than that before concluding that this woman is a monster.

Face Timed them from the toilet.