Posted on 08/21/2015 12:03:20 AM PDT by South40
SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers on Wednesday took the first steps toward raising taxes and fees on motorists and further restricting Californians' tobacco use as the Legislature convened special sessions aimed at solving the state's transportation and health care funding crises.
Members of a Senate committee tackling a huge backlog of roadway maintenance endorsed legislation that would generate $4 billion annually for repairs by increasing the gas tax 12 cents a gallon and boosting annual vehicle registration fees $35 for most cars. Fees for all-electric vehicles would go up $100.
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Nice try Texican, but you are too late-I close on my Denton house Monday.
If it is calculated that it will raise $4 billion then that calculation will be figured into the budget. The reality is that it will raise less than $4b because people will use less gas at the higher price and the gas tax will increase the state budget deficit.
Even if Cali raised the whole $4b I daresay it wouldn’t improve the roads because most of the money will be diverted to more pressing social projects and to offshore bank accounts. The Cali government is the most powerful and all encompassing of the states and therefore the corruption must be at the highest level of all the states. It just about can’t be otherwise.
“Honey, isn’t it wonderful here? There is so much less crime than back in Oakland and the taxes are so much lower! And the rent is half and gas is so cheap! Don’t you love it here? I do. Now if there were just some more services, it would be perfect.”
California seems to be where they learned to be liberals. It’s in the air they breathe there.
Liberals encourage things by taxing them then requiring them. That people would change their lifestyles and preferences and even their locations due to higher costs, higher crime, more onerous rules, is nonsense to liberals even while those liberals are changing their consumption patterns and their habits and locations to improve their economic situations and get away from increasing crime.
Hey the beaches here are overrated, the housing is expensive and ugly because it has to be built to withstand huge Earthquakes, Tsunami’s and Super Typhoons the to four times a year. Food is way to expensive. Utilities charges are really high and the transportation network is car only but with narrow winding roads and 35 mph speed limits. You also get B52’s flying over your house at any time day or night
Stay away from Guam, Californians won’t like it here
I was in San Diego couple weeks ago and they were paying 4.69 a gallon,what’s another 12 cents
Hoping to get 4 Billion in tax revenue, they will be luck to get one-third of that as people cut back on their use of fuel.
LOL!
The gas taxes in Pennsylvania are much higher than they are in the People’s Republic of New Jersey, yet the roads in the PRNJ are much better than those in PA.
So the problem with poor roads is not entirely the result of undertaxation.
In the begining of the regime the new intellectual nimrods were grilling exxon and others on thier pricing but no where in bold letters were their people screaming “if you take away the taxes on gas the price goes to below 2 bucks” The idiots know how to choke the chicken real good
“Another panel approved bills to hike the legal smoking age to 21, regulate e-cigarettes and allow counties to place local tobacco taxes on the ballot.”
Yep! Still pissed about that one after paying to renew my wife’s truck registration. Ouch! The funny thing is at my location the price of gas went down 3 cents a gallon on 1 Jul 15. Apparently the Mormon Militia in Salt Lake (area refinery operators) helped out their brothers that hit us with the new tax (we have a lot of Mormons in Southern Idaho).
I don't think we are going to see this from all states. Most states don't hold California's view on gasoline taxes.
Not a dime-on-the-dollar of it will go to roads; it will be sucked up by greenie projects and bureaucrats.
Doesn’t Cali have a very large number of govt empl retirees making over $100 grand/yr and over $200 grand/yr?
All states, cities, the fed, counties, are addicted to taxes.
They’ll raise fees, taxes, surcharges, fines, etc.
Wherever they think they can steal money from.
If gas were to hit $1.25/gal like it did in my neck of the woods in 2009, they’ll be talking of raising the taxes.
Whether the public is stupid enough to go for it is another matter.
If true, why have some states gone decades without raising their gasoline tax?
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