Posted on 10/14/2019 10:19:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker
Last November, Democrats hailed California voters' rejection of Proposition 6, a law to scrap the state's 2017 massive gas taxes. They crowed that Californians were glad to pay five bucks at the pump when the rest of the U.S. average was half that. Big reason? Because $3 billion of those takings would save the state's tumbledown highways and go to repair roads and bridges.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wanna bet not a single bridge nor highway will be even touched?
I lived in CA and this kind of thing passed every decade or so and NOTHING got better. The only thing that ever actually HAPPENED was bridge support after the Northridge quake. And that was mostly FEMA $.
They should remove the bear from the state seal and replace it with a pickpocket.
Well now you have let yourself in for it.
As we have seen regarding the eternal unstoppable fires from the inadequate firebreaks and underbrush control, California Freepers hate Freepers whose criticisms come from having lived there the most
“They should remove the bear from the state seal and replace it with a pickpocket.”
NOPE! A Bear pickpocketing a citizen.
Homeless crossings.
More from the article:
” Turns out the tax wasn’t about repairing roads and highways after all. On Sept. 20, in a little noted maneuver, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to divert the tax cash away from crumbling highway repair to greenie political pet projects instead. To heck with the highways; it was time to save the Earth. According to an Oct. 7 item from the California Globe:
Governor Newsom signed Executive Order N-19-19 September 20, directing the already controversial gas tax money away from fixing local highways in favor of rail projects.”
Can’t Patterson sue him? The voters voted it in. The voters should have the final say.
CA needs a non-pyrotechnic electric distribution grid more than it needs to poor more cash down the rail rathole, or pave the remaining square foot of land.
It’s Kleptofornia why is anyone surprised?
Mis-allocation of funds is just business as usual there.
I lost everything I owned way back in 1983 when the crooks running San Jose took the Alviso flood control funds to glorify themselves and their pet “Light Rail” project.
Which virtually no one rode.
I recently visited Alviso for the first time in decades.
No longer a small bed-room community at the edge of San Jose.
Now that Google and several other mega-companies have facilities there thirty million has been spent on flood control.
So clearly the mere citizens are fair game but they will not risk the ire of the corporate masters.
A sucker born every minute. In California, one per second.
I could have told you that before it was voted on.
If Kimberly Guilfoyle had gone straight to Don Trump, Jr. rather than temporarily marrying Gayvin Newsome — falling for his good looks and assertive mannerisms, no doubt — he might have never made it this far.
Just goes to show you: never trust a greenie weenie (even an alpha male greenie weenie) with a tax hike.
PING!
Good ol’ “road diets.”
LOL!
A handful of 400-foot-wide highways are nothing compared to the thousands and thousands of acres of neglected forests — to his credit, Newsome is trying to alleviate that problem — that have F-tons of dry underbrush ready to burn.
bttt!
Californians are idiots. They deserve everything they get. Only a fool would believe promises as to what tax plunder would be spent for. This crap was tried on a smaller scale here in GA as a 1% additional sales tax to expand Atlanta’s corrupt and incompetent MARTA into surrounding counties to “ease congestion” what it was in reality was a several billion dollar cash grab to transfer even more money from the pockets of the taxpayers to the wastrels in government and would have done nothing to ease traffic congestion.
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