WEB Notes: California will now have more taxes and fees, how about that. To fix the roads they say. Really? Californians already pay taxes and fees for that and a lot of the roads are horrible. Let’s see what Breitbart has to say,
“Despite tax collection increasing by 50 percent in the last 9 years, California’s public pension insolvency is forcing Gov. Jerry Brown to propose a dangerously unpopular 42 percent increase in gasoline taxes and a 141 percent increase in vehicle registration fees.”
There you have it. There have been more taxes collected so what is their excuse? The population continues to grow. Go ahead and make the state a “sanctuary state” and have all your illegals pay the taxes. You wonder why the state is going to pot? Take a look at the policies that govern it. Where are the tar and feathers?
The legislation, for which final details were unveiled last week, would raise the base excise tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon, bringing it to 30 cents. Another variable excise tax would be set at 17 cents.
The excise tax on diesel fuel would jump 20 cents per gallon and the sale tax on diesel would go up four percentage points. Electric cars would pay a $100 annual fee.
The package also creates a new, annual vehicle fee ranging from $25 for cars valued at under $5,000 to $175 for cars worth $60,000 or more.
Source: California Senate votes to raise taxes on gas to pay for road repairs – LA Times
“… To Pay For Road Repairs”
Paving with silver this time???
“Where are the tar and feathers?”
Same place as the rope.
Where did all the previous tax money go?
/end/rhetorical
My niece is a teacher in San Diego. A few years ago, she asked ‘to make sure’ I was going to vote the sales tax increase ‘for the schools’?
I told her ‘of course not, you idiot. It goes into the General Coffer. Why would I vote those a$$holes a raise’.
Of course, it was just another one of my ‘conspiracy theories’ that I’m known for.
At Christmas, I asked her how that sales tax increase was going for her, and the windfall to the schools – AFTER I HEARD HER TALKING ABOUT having to buy nearly everything for her students.
“Conspiracy theory’, huh?
Raise taxes? What a novel idea 😯