Posted on 05/04/2017 7:24:02 PM PDT by Mariner
California’s new gas tax hike to pay for road improvements pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown and Democrats could go before voters for repeal.
Travis Allen, a Republican assemblyman from Orange County, filed the proposed 2018 ballot measure to eliminate the $5.2 billion annual package to fund road improvements.
On Thursday, Allen launched a website asking for contributions of $5 to help him gather the 365,880 signatures from registered voters to place the repeal before voters. Allen can begin to gather signatures once the state attorney general issues a title and summary for his repeal.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
So the Democrats will find a way to screw up the initiative language, or otherwise find it somehow, someway illegal.
After all, they are commies.
Republicans are screwing things up by not allowing the transportation tax to take effect.
Let the liberal voters understand what it means to continually vote for people who make things more expensive and destructive with every new bill and tax and regulation that their legislators and governor want to impose on them.
Let California destroy itself.
About damned time we tell the state government in California to go...
Though sign a petition in CA and potentially have your life ruined by the left.
i hear Sacramento plans to use the new gas taxes for more free abortions, free transgender surgeries for prisoners, and higher welfare checks for more IslamONazi/Moslem ‘immigrants’
Shouldn’t motorists pay for what they use? Perhaps motorists have enjoyed tax payer subsidies and hand outs for far too long?
Now if we could repeal the grocery bag law. I get the impression while at the store that the idiots who are my fellow voters may not be enthusiastic about the choice they made
AG will block the repeal.
“Shouldn’t motorists pay for what they use? Perhaps motorists have enjoyed tax payer subsidies and hand outs for far too long?”
Surely you forgot the sarcasm tag.
California already has the highest gas tax in the nation, topped with a Carbon Credit tax. And therefore the highest gas prices too.
Most of that gas tax is used in the general fund and is not quarantined to road transportation.
And while the new law says THIS tax will be quarantined, there’s also a clause that says: “unless the legislature votes otherwise”.
California doesn’t put gas tax revenue to work maintaining, repairing or creating roads. They use it to construct bicycle trails, trains to nowhere and destroying roads in the name of the environment. And if general revenues need a bit of a boost, they take whatever’s left.
Motorists are paying, but they’re not getting anything from it.
Yes, I agree.
When the Legislature is dominated by Democrats, it can certainly help, but it does go both ways.
We got rid of Rose Bird (Chief Justice) and two other California Supreme Court justices on one election day in the 80s. That made my day.
I agree. These people have so much free time on their hands to battle trivial things like this.
Well, they always need more money in the general fund. :P
Not the brightest ideal I've heard this month.
California is not destroying itself.
The elected criminals are doing it and laughing all the way to the "retirement bank."
It's like allowing bank robbers to rob with impunity, then billing the bank's depositors for the losses...
Dumb.
Dumb.
Dumb...
Contribution on its way. This clown Brown is maddening.
Train to nowhere...
Neglected dams.
Destruction of a generations-old working Water System.
Thoughtless spendind without regard for the cumulative growing debt.
Uncontrolled undeserving growth of the State bureaucracy...
The list is pretty much endless.
People get the government they deserve. They will not change their government until the pain gets so great that they see no other choice.
California voted for this state government. Repeatedly.
could go before voters for repeal.”
No hyperbole here: And any judge that decides to dismiss the result of this vote will do so. Period.
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