Posted on 02/01/2026 6:17:47 AM PST by Libloather
California drivers and Republican legislators are furious over a Democrat-led proposal that could see motorists taxed for each mile they drive.
With the state staring down a budget deficit in the billions and more Californians switching to electric vehicles, Democratic lawmakers are searching for new ways to shore up declining gas tax revenue.
Californians pay the second-highest gas price in the nation behind only Hawaii. In January, the average price was $4.23 per gallon, according to the American Automobile Association.
On Thursday, state legislators advanced Democrat Lori Wilson’s bill, AB 1421, which would direct the California Transportation Commission and the state Transportation Agency to continue studying options for a mileage-based tax, rather than implementing one.
Opponents of the proposal were out in force Saturday, with activists gathering at Cal Expo in Sacramento to collect signatures opposing a raft of new Democratic tax measures, including a potential mileage charge.
“I just got very tense and insecure, because I drive a lot of miles,” said Sherrie Ann Lorenzo, a Chico resident. “I don’t want to be taxed for driving. It’s my freedom. I live in the home of the free, I thought.”
Under concepts outlined in the study, the tax could range from two to nine cents per mile. With California drivers logging roughly 11,400 miles a year on average, a mileage charge could cost motorists between $228 and $1,026 annually.
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Shut up and PAY, Sherrie.
Cali is NOT the only place this is being floated. I’ve heard rumblings here in east cali(NV) about it on and off recently. 😠
Breathtaking idiocy. Or at least it would at first appear to be. I would posit that it is driven not so much by idiocy, though, as it is by envy. There is a growing contingent of child-minded voters who still sprint around on scooters and who, because our middle class has been gutted, don’t see themselves as ever being able to afford a car (which they honestly really want). If THEY can’t have one, they’ll lash out at those who can. The modern-day version of scum keying nice cars...
The people get what they vote for.
Maybe this will help tip the election to republican this year.
We can pray it’s so.
The Dims are testing the people to see how far they can go with this tax business.
Elect a democrat and you get more taxes and more regulations (more control over your life), more corruption, and more lies.
There’s a recognized “right to travel” in the Constitution. I don’t see how a fundamental tax, per mile, can align. It’s one thing to tax a product, like gasoline or electricity, it’s another to tax the movement itself.
Goes nicely with their 15 minute cities concentration camps. I will go toward keeping people in their boundaries.
“They need to move somewhere where sane people govern”
They moved to Colorado and now we have a bunch of communists running things.
“They moved to Colorado and now we have a bunch of communists running things.”
That’s why I moved to far western Colorado, where there are lots of farmers and ranchers who are sane.
We are down to pockets now, not states. My Colorado county went 60/40 Trump. Life is good here, lots of good hardworking people outnumber the idiots. We laugh at them as they wave signs from their wheelchairs.
You voted for it, you got it! Embrace the suck!
Good question.
Shirley you jest
, a mileage charge could cost motorists between $228 and $1,026 annually.
, a mileage charge could cost motorists between $228 and $1,026 annually.
How would they tax out of staters? Maybe one work around is to buy and register a car out of state. Given voter fraud it shouldn’t be too hard to get a fake address.
If my mileage is taxed, Californians can starve before I will haul another load to their supermarkets.
Walmart and Coke are building state of the art warehouses outside Cali and closing all of their in state warehouses.
Cheaper to truck it in than to own distribution centers in Cali.
What about all the shipping containers that get hauled out of the ports in California ?
In 2025, California has approximately 5,776,356 registered Republicans, which constitutes about 25.22% of the total registered voters in the state, totaling 22,900,896 registered voters.
To collect this tax the state would need to keep track of your mileage and without saying keep continuous track of where you went. I think this would be an egregious violation of privacy. Could the state also use this technology to restrict where you went or miles you drive based on social credits like in communist China?
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