San Diego seeks to impose tax on cats, require license for ownership

Chris | InformationLiberation
Jul. 13, 2011

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The San Diego government is seeking to force cat owners to get a license to own a cat, as well as force them to pay a 'cat tax' for said license, reports NBC San Diego.

"So now you have Animal Control being your tax collector," says Sandee Gilbert, the owner of a 1-year-old Cornish Rex male named Nike. "And as a tax collector, you're going to accrue a tremendous amount of cost trying to find the owner of that cat."
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According to formulas used by the Humane Society of the United States, there are an estimated 373,000 cats in San Diego.

If just 5 percent had been registered at $25 a head, the auditor's office says the city could have saved $536,000 over the past three fiscal years.

"Saved," of course, means stealing additional money through a new tax/fee, that's Washington's newspeak where not taxing people is now considered government spending.