Raleigh’s cat and dog tax
OK, I admit it … I’m an illegal citizen. I’ve committed crimes in my past.
For years I had 2 cats – and not once did I register them with the city of Raleigh and pay the city’s pussy tax. Later I had a dog – and I never paid tax on him. I frankly don’t know if my neighbors pay the tax on their pets but I’ve never seen city tags on those animals (only their rabies tags).
What the hell is the point in all of this? Is it just one more tax for the city? To be honest, I don’t think the city can be making any money off of this tax. They don’t collect the money or do the actual registration, they pay others to do it – veterinarians. Of course the city does have to have the tags made and do all of the record keeping. So after all of the costs what is left out of a $7.00 fee? Not much I’m sure! I wonder if there is a city dog/cat tax supervisor that they pay $60K a year?
Now the city claims that registration “helps the City monitor compliance with State of North Carolina rabies vaccination laws” … That is a joke – what percentage of pets are registered – a very low percentage – which makes any data from the registrations useless. The city also claims that registration helps to “identify family pets should they become lost” … haven’t they ever heard of ID chips?
