In his recent speech to the legislature on the budget crisis, Gov. Schwarzenegger said that since the state is supplying less money to municipalities that it needs to have less rules and oversight, and that the state needs to clean up its act so the populace trusts them again.
A real good place to start would be by rescinding the $9.50 “state surcharge” currently being added to parking tickets in California. Because most everyone in California, I’m guessing, would view such surcharges as chickenshit gouging by the state.
