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Don't you just love liberals already planning on how to spend the "extra" money.
Not even realizing that the reason they raised taxes was because of the a shortfall.
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Both houses of the California legislature passed a 12-cent gasoline tax hike on Thursday, meeting Governor Jerry Brown’s deadline to provide an estimated $52 billion in new revenues, ostensibly for transportation infrastructure.
The bill, which also raises Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) fees, barely reached the two-thirds majority needed to raise taxes in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. Passage marks a huge political victory for Gov. Brown, who is in his fourth and final term as governor. The political consequences for legislators, however, have yet to be seen, as voters have not yet felt the pinch of a tax hike that, critics say, will hit rural and working-class Californians hardest.
PA has the highest state gasoline tax at 58¢ per gallon and some of the worst roads in the USA. A lot of the tax goes to fund SEPTA, which handles the Philadelphia area transportation system (subways, trolleys, buses and commuter rail). The rest of the state gets the shaft.
Higher gas taxes = p1ss people off who will voice their opinion at the voting booth.
You have bigger problems if you get pissed off at an extra $2 for every 17 gallons of gas (average mid-sized family sedan).
Check your spending priorities. Hell, I'd would have gone further, do 24 cents/36 cents a gallon. Then with the extra money, spend more on fixing roads + give tax incentives for alternative fuel vehicles. Force people out of their stupid SUVs and trucks.
You have bigger problems if you get pissed off at an extra $2 for every 17 gallons of gas (average mid-sized family sedan).
Check your spending priorities. Hell, I'd would have gone further, do 24 cents/36 cents a gallon. Then with the extra money, spend more on fixing roads + give tax incentives for alternative fuel vehicles. Force people out of their stupid SUVs and trucks.
Gas Prices are already over $3 at many California pumps.
They intentionally have crappy roads just so they can justify the tax increase because they are so busy spending on welfare programs that have no benefit.
While people in bordering Arizona are paying $1.99
They have a special liberal blend of gasoline and already very high gas taxes so they already have many, many gas stations above $3 and that's with $45-$50 barrel oil.
California economy model: Socialist-level of taxation with some of the largest income disparities in the country.
Californians are interesting how they view the government. They seem to be okay with the constant tax increases.
Los Angeles for example, had two November tax increases and then one last month and then there is this tax a month later.
Interesting thing is there state is so overwhelmed that it will never be enough. It is a state is a couple of million ultra-rich secluded ultra-rich elites and then there is a massive, massive underclass.
They already have taxed the middle-class out, so the economic model is the same as Brazil basically. Except, I don't Brazil taxes like California.
Last edited by lovecrowds; 04-07-2017 at 05:04 PM..
Because air quality and smog affects everyone, not just you. You're also really brilliant too. Want to breath in smog and die earlier? Go for it. Not me.
No one is dictating what you drive, you're just paying extra to smog up the air. Discouraging is different from dictating. Get your vocabulary in line.
Go back and look at Downtown LA in the 50s and 60s. Look how smoggy it was. Compare it to now. You're telling me regulation/taxation doesn't work?
If I wanted as the government to dictate something, I would enact a law to outlaw SUVs and trucks completely from being sold.
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