Shouldn’t motorists pay for what they use? Perhaps motorists have enjoyed tax payer subsidies and hand outs for far too long?
“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.