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Governor Jerry Brown Hopes to Fast Track Gas Tax (vote sought by Thursday)
Fox 40 ^ | April 3 2017 | LONNIE WONG

Posted on 04/05/2017 8:53:44 PM PDT by WilliamIII

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To: Sivad
Using allotted road funds for everything but roads.
And we should believe things will be different this time,
why?

Last time I looked, Gov Brown got extra taxes for transportation and roads and squandered it on a bullet train to nowhere. He got extra money for dam maintenance saying it was dire and skipped any for the Oroville Dam, despite it needing repair. He got extra money for schools saying the students needed it and squandered it on salary and pension perks for admins. It ain't just road funds that are squandered by Brown.

Gov Brown simply can't be trusted, can't be believed. It's all to benefit his buddies and graft.

21 posted on 04/05/2017 9:45:06 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: WilliamIII
“The roads are broken, and they’re getting worse, and they’re not going to get better unless you get a significant injection of money,"

What's being done with the other 58.83 cents per gallon CA is getting already?

22 posted on 04/05/2017 9:46:13 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: WilliamIII

Kalifornia does it again! Raising taxes is the solution to everything for them.


23 posted on 04/05/2017 9:53:12 PM PDT by No Dems 2016
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To: WilliamIII

Just a silly question. What is the gas tax going to actually fund. Early the Gov wanted to use much of the revenues to fund public employee pension underfunding liabilities, then when that was dead on arrival, he suggested it would fund road repairs and maintenance.

Looks to me he just wants revenues to spend on anything he wants.


24 posted on 04/05/2017 9:55:35 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Cementjungle

Actually I just filled up yesterday and looked. It’s posted as .47 cents. Maybe .47.5. But that doesn’t include sales tax which is also added in so you’re close.


25 posted on 04/05/2017 10:02:55 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Two Kids' Dad

Im outta Cali by the end of the summer. Huntsville AL here I come!


26 posted on 04/05/2017 10:20:54 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: WilliamIII

Another creepozoid democRAT Kalifornia governor, Gray Davis announced previously that all of the gasoline taxes collected specifically for road maintenance would no longer be used for roads. He went on and on about the evil automobile, that if we maintained and built good roadways, the idiotic Kalifornia resident would have the audacity to actually DRIVE on them! He stated all the gasoline tax revenue would be re-directed to more important things. While he was recalled, I sincerely doubt that anyone changed his idiotic $$$$ transfer of the gasoline taxes. And now, Moonbeam wants more $$$$. Creepozoids all.


27 posted on 04/05/2017 10:23:11 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: WilliamIII

Cratnifornia is the land of Junior Seau and Robin Williams.


28 posted on 04/05/2017 10:37:15 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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“Cratnifornia is the land of Junior Seau and Robin Williams.

I think the bunny with the pancake on his head is needed for your post.


29 posted on 04/05/2017 11:13:19 PM PDT by willk (everyone)
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To: WilliamIII

Brown, perhaps if you spent the gas tax you all ready collected on roads instead of stealing it to buy votes from immigrants the roads would not be falling apart?

Tell me why this time over all the other times you have raised the taxes “for the roads”, you will actually spend it on road work?

Lying theif...


30 posted on 04/05/2017 11:40:12 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: WilliamIII

The only people going to be left there are the handful of the ultra rich and everybody else will be serfs - in fact if not in name.

Maybe the Raiders knew what they were doing by relocating to Las Vegas.


31 posted on 04/06/2017 1:09:30 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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major roadway repair bill

Who believes that even 1% of this will get spent on roads?

Welfare and Illegal Alien Defense Fund, more likely.

32 posted on 04/06/2017 5:21:28 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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"He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege" - Elvis Costello

33 posted on 04/06/2017 6:02:26 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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Liberals love being taxed into oblivion. Gov. Brown you go boy tax California into extinction.


34 posted on 04/06/2017 6:04:16 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: WilliamIII

Nothing a Liberal loves more than high taxes. Gov. Brown you just keep on taxing those Liberals and keep them happy


35 posted on 04/06/2017 6:07:29 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: WilliamIII

Simple answer to the question WHY? Because they are Democrats and need money to buy votes. Any questions?


36 posted on 04/06/2017 6:38:38 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Upcomming Kaliforny elections should be seeing State senate and congressional districts being flooded with renewal applications of license to steal making the rounds where ever those holdovers who supported this krap exist.


37 posted on 04/06/2017 8:25:27 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Sivad
Using allotted road funds for everything but roads.
And we should believe things will be different this time, why?

The proposed legislation actually specifies that no more than 5% of the funding can go toward road repair. So the criminality is built in, openly, right from the start.

38 posted on 04/06/2017 11:57:11 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: SFConservative

part will be distributed to cities who lose federal fund because they are sanctuary


39 posted on 04/07/2017 12:01:23 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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