Progressive ideas are always bad. That’s because they don’t understand anything.
Really? No one anywhere will see higher taxes or any kind of money change hands with these cards. If the cards are free, then gas must be free in CA. And here I thought they had the highest gas prices in the US. Did I just hear the words "abracadabra" mumbled somewhere?
That’s the plan.
So bad profiteering oil companies now get state subsidies to keep inflated prices. OMG 😲
And where exactly is this “free” gas money coming from? To think Newsom once ran on a campaign of fiscal responsibility. Even Jerry Brown has told Newsom to lay off the bribes, er, government spending!
You know you’re in trouble when your fellow Rats are criticizing you.
I don’t support the Gas Cards, but I think this guy is being
somewhat absurd in his presentation.
People have already spent a lot more on gas than they
generally have, and they still have to got to work, pick
up the kids, go grocery shopping, and other things.
These cards aren’t going to cause people to go on long trips
or purchase a lot more gas. They will simply allow folks to
pay a little less for the gas they already have to buy.
If people get the card, and have to drive a lot, I think
they’ll try to stretch the value of the card as far as they
can.
I don’t think they’ll simply go out and buy more gas to use
recreationally.
But, but, but.... FREE money! Come on man, it is FREE MONEY!
It has electrolytes!
Newsome’s thinking is if they lower the gas tax, the greedy oil companies will just keep the money as profit, won’t pass it along.
His thinking, not mine.
This is very similar to how the Roman empire destroyed itself.
Gavin, you fool. Stop with the gimmicks. Just cut the gasoline tax by $1.00.
I thought gas was bad for the environment? And here you go giving away money so people can buy it.
These people need to be lined up against a wall with a cigarette in their mouth.
When and where do we get them?
The way things are going, this will get him a nomination for a Nobel prize in economics.
That will cover one tank of gas for a large pickup truck.
SUBSIDIES always contribute to either short or long term high prices by preventing or delaying open markets finding a true market price (because subsidies subsidize current prices as they are).
EVERY country that has tried fuel subsidies has found they never made for lower market prices and they became an “entitlement” the population expected to keep, making it harder for the politicians to get rid of them.
Without the subsidies, demand will take a hit, and lower demand will have some effect on prices; either weakening price increases or actually helping lower prices.
It would be simpler and easier to just suspend the gasoline tax. But there is no graft or payola in such a simple scheme.
California has a $23 billion budget surplus this year. We can afford to forego the gas tax for many months.
Gas cards are fungible cash. Using a $400 gas card frees up $ that would have gone to gas, now is available for luxuries. Takes me $100 to fill up; a ‘free’ $400 gas card isn’t going to tempt me into a splurge 2000 mile trip, but will become a case of ammo.