Posted on 04/07/2017 9:18:27 AM PDT by C19fan
Both houses of the California legislature passed a 12-cent gasoline tax hike on Thursday, meeting Governor Jerry Brown’s deadline to provide an estimated $52 billion in new revenues, ostensibly for transportation infrastructure. The bill, which also raises Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) fees, barely reached the two-thirds majority needed to raise taxes in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. Passage marks a huge political victory for Gov. Brown, who is in his fourth and final term as governor. The political consequences for legislators, however, have yet to be seen, as voters have not yet felt the pinch of a tax hike that, critics say, will hit rural and working-class Californians hardest.
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Ah, the choo-choo.
They should have a website that shows how much money was brought in for a given month and the infrastructure projects that money is being spent on.
The state lottery money was going to be spent on the schools.
this is nonsense....
moonbeam and the supermajority will squander the money.
How do people make ends meet out there?
Moonbeam must truly hate California because he’s doing a bang up job of screwing up everything he possibly can. High taxes, a terrible business environment, massive over-regulation, prioritizing illegals over citizens and prioritizing weird animals and insects over all humans, dumping a sh*t-ton of money into a bullet train project that’ll never see dollar one in net profit and may never even see completion, and the list goes on and on.
A guy in our church is a retired CHiP officer; he couldn't believe the difference in cost to tag a vehicle in Missouri compared to CA.
“But Gov. Brown gained an ally in the one Republican to vote for the new tax hike, State Sen. Anthony Canella (R-Ceres), who supported the measure in exchange for a project in his district, according to yourcentralvalley.com.”
Openly buying a vote...cool.
Congratulations Jerry Brown on sticking it to the stupid people in our state one more time. I’m sure thry will love being made even less prosperous and be willing to give you a fith term if it wasnt for those pesky term limits
12 cents is too low. Should be a $2.00 tax. For the children.
Unless one is rich or poor on welfare and like they don’t and move out. Check out the difference in U-Haul rates to and from CA.
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with Governor Brown
Minorities and Women Hardest Hit
So what does that put us at?
$.78 cents per gallon?
Women, children and the poor will be hardest hit.
That’s an additional $2.40 per tank...
Nice job
Guess they figured we would pay since we were paying $4-$5 per gallon just a few years back...
Still, that makes the current tax 30%-50% of a gallon depending on where you buy...
And on top of that, California charges sales tax on gasoline.
So, Calif. drivers pay the federal gas tax, the existing state gas tax, the new 12 cent gas tax, a variable carbon tax, and sales tax when buying gas.
How much can you tax one product???
the same guy sold his vote the last tax increase and now he’s termed out and going for county board of supervisors. This is bribery, but since these are not normal people nothing to see here.
Elections have consequences. the Hispanics, Asians and white snowflakes gave the Rat party a super majority last Nov. and they aren’t going to let it go to waste. A $2 a pack new cigarette tax just went into effect last week as well.
Moonbeam makes you long for Gray Davis.
Tar and Feathers would not be punishment enough for the democrat scoundrels in Sacramento. I would lean more towards nooses.
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