sell or trade?

Ok, so when you bought the first of your "couple of dozen cars" in California, you paid sales tax. When you traded it, you paid sales tax on the purchase price of the new vehicle, not deducting the trade in value. That means you paid tax twice on the first vehicle.

Now, I haven't lived in CA for 40 years, but I have to believe that all the Californians that think this is OK have already moved to Oregon.

Bry - looks like a battle of wits with an unarmed man...