[tflabo]

By voting down Prop 6 in 2018 Ca voters also gave consent for the Legislators to render future gas tax increases at their discretion. How stupid!

California Proposition 6, the Voter Approval for Future Gas and Vehicle Taxes and 2017 Tax Repeal Initiative, was on the ballot in California as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.[1] The ballot measure was defeated.

A yes vote supported this initiative to:
repeal fuel tax increases and vehicle fees.

[21twelve]

In Washington state they put a carbon tax on the oil producers, etc. Of course that got passed down to the consumer.

And now all the liberals that voted for it are complaining. It was sold as a tax on those greedy gas companies.

BTW - gas companies average about a 15% profit.
Banks are about 30%
Pharmaceuticals are about 70%. During the pandemic and with the vaccines, Pfizer was at something like 130% profit.

[markman46]

the stupid aholes along the coast SF, SB, LA SD vote for this S-storm.

[Yogafist]

If I remember correctly, the way the secretary of state described the proposition on the ballot was confusing to most voters. If I remember right, it wasn’t described as a repeal of the gas tax, which was very unpopular, it was reducing infrastructure funding, or some such.

[j.havenfarm]

Well that would be because my fellow voters here in CA are as dense as the proverbial bricks. The Legislature came up with this massive tax increase, its repeal qualified for the ballot, then the idiot voters fell for the ads by the various public worker unions that police, fire, etc would be endangered if the repeal went into effect