” All Public Employees and Public Servants in the State of California, Shall reside within the city and the community in which they serve and shall be PROHIBITED from using any Personal Automobile, Motorcycle, or any other means of mechanical transportation other than an unpowered Bicycle or Public Transit for Transportation to and from their respective Official Workplace.”

Most of Societies problems solved in one fell swoop. No more of 80% of the Police and City Employees of Los Angeles living in Simi Valley and Santa Clarita. Last Count had over 6000 Police officers in Simi Alone. Virtually all from various agencies in Los Angeles County. They Should be required to live in the Filth they created and use the same transportation they want for US.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

– Frederic Bastiat –

The only way to solve this is to do what John Galt practiced. All young people must BOYCOTT student financial aid and higher education. REFUSE to let Mr. University President and Mr. Bankster turn you into a debt slave.

Now the scam is to rob Peter to bail out Paul.

As the brick wall gets closer and closer……………

Taxing the state and fed gas excise taxes w/ a sales tax should be illegal.
Huge scam. 80% of the gas prices is pure manipulation. Easy way to raise taxes w/o a vote.

Hey, the scam of scams continues

Looks like L.A. gov’s share of the gas tax for 3 mos ending Sept 30/2011 went up over 17% from the same quarter of the previous year as gas prices rose. If it went up for L.A. by that much I assume it went up for other local gov’s and the state gov too. Gas prices skyrocketed which means that sales tax revenue went up accordingly. While some recreational driving probably slowed – people still have to get to work and run routine errands. I suppose most vehicle mileage consists of runs to work and routine stuff. Plus, the big trucks and commercial vehicles that use lots of fuel have to run in order to make money.

Read this about L.A.:

“The city’s share of gasoline sales tax rose nearly 17.8% to $12.6 million for the three months that ended Sept. 30 from $10.7 million in the year-earlier quarter. That accounted for 13.3% of the city’s revenue from all sales taxes, according to the Los Angeles city administrative officer. Sales taxes in general account for 4.5% of the city’s revenue”

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/29/business/la-fi-gas-taxes-20120329

But this is not what happens. usually when gas goes sky high the taxes coming in go down, because people stop driving, especially discretionary driving on vacations.

queeg says:
If prices are up….capitalists try to minimize expenses by streamlining/increasing productivity and find ways to maximize revenue through better products and services.

And nearly all consumers cut back on discretionary driving.