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Old 06-17-2020, 05:48 PM
 
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In the middle of a severe recession, the California state government is doing what it does best: raising taxes.

On July 1, the state's motor fuel excise tax will rise by 3.2 cents to 50.5 cents a gallon. That heavily regressive levy secures the Golden State's status as the nation's top taxer of gasoline. This coming increase—the third in four years, according to the Los Angeles Times—is the first time the tax will go up as the result of an automatic inflation-adjustment mechanism added in 2017.

The 2017 law specifies that the tax's first inflation adjustment be based on the changes in the California CPI from November 2017 to November 2019. Because prices went up about 6 percent over that time, the gas tax is set to increase by the same amount.

That's prompted a group of Republican legislators to propose suspending the gas tax increase.

"Unemployment continues to rise and all the ways California was unaffordable prior to the pandemic still exist—suspending the gas tax increase is the least that could be done," Assemblymember Marie Waldron (R–Escondido) told the Los Angeles Times.

Democrats have dismissed the idea of delaying the tax increase, arguing that the state needs all the money it can get for roads at a time when tax revenues are falling across the board.
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Old 06-17-2020, 05:59 PM
 
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3.2 cents?????? Those BASTARDS!!! That’s going to cost me at least 58 cents per month. How, oh how will we make it??? Little Timmy will have to go without dinner now.

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It’s 3.2 cents a gallon. Moderator cut: personal

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Old 06-17-2020, 08:13 PM
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Location: Flovis
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50 cents per would be nice, actually
Id force more MAGAts out, there'd be less SUVs on the road, and cities would be forced to do smarter planning. Thanks for dissapointing me with your clickbait, op.
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Old 06-17-2020, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Sylmar, a part of Los Angeles
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You guys don't mind the highest taxes in the United states but I do. All kind and every kind of tax. And it all goes so public employee unions can live like kings and your paying for it. How dumb can you get?
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Old 06-17-2020, 09:01 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-2019/

About to be around 70 cents a gallon when gas is less than two bucks in many States. Where exactly are we seeing the results to infrastructure and good roads?
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Old 06-17-2020, 11:08 PM
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Location: California
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My whole neighborhood is currently being repaved. Gas tax baby. I don't know why they don't repave roads in LA, but not my problem either. I like all our new roads in town since the tax went up.
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Old 06-18-2020, 03:24 AM
 
Location: Northern California
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You guys don't mind the highest taxes in the United states but I do. All kind and every kind of tax. And it all goes so public employee unions can live like kings and your paying for it. How dumb can you get?
I dunno, but I know I am not dumb enough to live somewhere I don't like.
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Old 06-18-2020, 07:31 AM
 
Location: On the water.
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I dunno, but I know I am not dumb enough to live somewhere I don't like.
Oh *snap*
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Old 06-18-2020, 09:02 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-2019/

About to be around 70 cents a gallon when gas is less than two bucks in many States. Where exactly are we seeing the results to infrastructure and good roads?
Senate Bill 1 fixes neighborhood streets, freeways and bridges in communities across California | Rebuilding CA

People generally don't pay attention to those "Funded by" signs next to construction sites on the side of the road, they should. The information is easily accessible, no one bothers to look at it though it seems. SB1 is helping fund the widening of a notoriously clogged section of freeway near where I live.
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Old 06-18-2020, 09:31 AM
 
Location: In an indoor space
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50 cents per would be nice, actually
Id force more MAGAts out, there'd be less SUVs on the road, and cities would be forced to do smarter planning. Thanks for dissapointing me with your clickbait, op.

Why could it be a "cool $1.00".

It's not about MAGA's - which I'm one of, but of the struggling working middle class (whatever is left) leaving no matter what political side they're on.
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