Comments on: Sacramento hits the gas on driving taxes

By: ECK

ECK — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:39:52 +0000

In reply to Maxine. In answer to your last, no. But neither do you. This isn't about "pollution" or resources, it's about ROADS!

By: Bc

Bc — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:35:09 +0000

Taxes need not be indexed for inflation. If gas price doubles due to inflation tax revenue doubles too. Taxes already grow in lockstep with inflation. This is why govt must seek new taxes like the milage tax. People are too smart to go for indexing.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:11:17 +0000

James the Oregon mileage-based tax is far from being a ‘done deal’. While ‘sophisticates’ in the greater Portland and Eugene areas may sign on to being tracked, the rest of the state, which is far more rural than California, will probably give this a big thumbs down. Remember this is a state with no sales tax, which has soundly rejected the sales tax every time it has come to the ballot. In similar fashion I predict that the mileage tax will be a non-starter.

By: Skep41

Skep41 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:11:45 +0000

It’s all good! Because the doltish Republiclowns in this state are determined not to mention taxes, out-of-control unions, the Glow-Bull Warming scam and the fact that Cali is now one of the most poverty-stricken states in the union but prefer to campaign in favor of making abortion illegal, ending gay marriage and legalizing machine guns; while the truly retarded Losertarians have taken a hike so they can campaign to legalize PCP and heroin; the Demos have, with their total control of the media and billions in union slush-fund money, achieved effective permanent one-party rule in California. When Das Guvernator put those four union-busting initiatives on the ballot in 2005 in an attempt to break the Demo political monopoly the moronic Born-Agains turned their back on him because he wasnt right on abortion. That was the effective end of two-party politics in this misbegotten state. There is no place on Earth which deserves higher taxes more than Cali. Double them. Triple them. They’ll still vote for Democrats and do it with a self-satisfied smile on their faces because they have no choice.

By: JPR11

JPR11 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:58:00 +0000

In CA the never ending question, How do we tax the buffoons more? The effects are already obvious. Business and the middle class are leaving. CA is rated “Worst Business state and Worst Retirement state” year after year. Why work when Uncle Brown will pay you to stay home? Is it over? No yet but CA is fully on the Socialist Slide.

By: Bill - San Jose

Bill - San Jose — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:46:41 +0000

Turnpikes back East work very well. The reason they do is that you have a CHOICE TO USE THEM AND PAY THE FEE OR NOT USE THEM AND TAKE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.

Sacramento is removing any and all choices in a “free” society. I am not shocked.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:09:00 +0000

Got on a train in Venice and by mistake was headed to Yugoslavia during the Cold War…..

The stench of vomit and urine was awful…..luckily I dove off that mobile cesspool in time before becoming an inslaved Comrade!

This rant above will become a CWD classic!

By: Ricky65

Ricky65 — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:45:30 +0000

It’s all about continuing the war on the middle class and ruralites who moved further out of urban areas to secure a patch of green grass and backyards for their children. They moved out largely to flee crime ridden cities, crumbling schools and find affordable housing. The scarcity of housing close to job centers is caused largely by the imposition of “smart growth” policies by the ‘urban planners’ which limited affordable options and has driven the price of housing by creating an artificial scarcity of land.
These hard pressed middle class folks are forced to live far away from their workplaces and drive long distances. They will now they will be pounced upon by the tax thieves in Excremento to further pick their already depleted pockets.
It an unrelenting effort by the green gentry elite and their bought and paid for lackeys in the Dema-Rat party. The greens are directing this effort through checkbook legislation in an effort to de-populate the rural areas so Gaia can heal from the wounds caused by the unwashed masses and breeding class.
Working class folks here is your future if you continue to vote against your own interests by putting liberal D-Rat politicians in office:
You will be forced to live in a Soviet style 400 SF apartment next to the urban rail tracks. Kiss your backyard and garden space goodbye. You will have no automobile either because you do not need one. Your green oligarchy masters deem you not worthy. Those will be reserved for the Zuckerbergs, DeCaprios and AlGores of the world. Your mode of transport will be dirty urban trains reeking of urine and worse and populated by thugs, thieves and sexual predators.
You will be forced to kick filthy homeless bums off your steps in the morning and drag your children onto the train into crumbling inner city schools taught by incompetents and ignorant union teachers.
The Dema-rat party..party of the little guy! What a joke..

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:01:03 +0000

Representative government. Oh my!

Your driving a Yugo sized car to cut gas costs in your personal budget. You risk a collision catapulting you two stories up in a roadside tree. Your family gets leg and rib cramps from being stuffed into a enviro friendly piece of shiny junk.

Your State representative drives a Commissar approved Escalade. Wine and finger food all around.

Your representated?

By: Maxine

Maxine — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:47:34 +0000

A recent editorial in our local weekly newspaper explained a very lucrative way for the state to make money on oil.

“Currently California exports about a million and a half barrels of refined fuel every day. There are 42 gallons of gas in every barrel. The gasoline that is exported is NOT TAXED. If that fuel, for export, were taxed a dollar a gallon at the refinery, California would be able to pay of its $28 Billion Dollar Deficit in a little under a year.
It only seems fair that those in other countries, who use our resources, should experience a tax for the pollution released into the air and for depleting the resources of the United States. There would, then, be no need to increase the taxes of hard working Americans to benefit others”

This makes more sense than to constantly take more and more of our hard earned money. Penalizing drivers who drive long distances each day for work is wrong.
And, if this happens, more and more of them will quit their work and go on assistance…..Then, WHO will pay the bills in Sacramento? Does anyone in the capitol have common sense?