Comments on: CA lawmakers team up to pitch 17-cent gas tax hike

By: Bouves

Bouves — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:09:42 +0000

We need to get a ballot initiative rescind the new gas tax that our legislators passed yesterday. Do notl let the people in Sacramento deceive us again. Tell Jerry to use the money for that useless train on our roads. All we get is new taxes. Jerry and the legislators are running us out of money.

By: Mr. Pickle

Mr. Pickle — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:54:02 +0000

Everybody needs to review SB-1X, the culprit behind this.
Beale & Frazier are both Dems, and in this case, following the ORDERS of King Brown and his court of minions. Neither has business experience, especially at this level, but they are doing the bidding of their boss. Nothing else. they feel that carbon and fuels are evil, and thus now a sin tax like cigarette taxes…… they hate the products, but just drool over the money. Hypocrites. As cited in Prop. 42 and Prop. 1A, the citizens told them in the Capitol to pound sand, and here they are again hurting the poor, with more costs they can not afford. Remember when turncoat Arnold SLASHED the DMV Fee to get elected, and now DMV is higher than every before………. Well, guess they figured out a way to build the Legacy Brown Train to nowhere and needed the money. Vote NO on this piece of crap, and scream bloody murder to the 2 Authors of this garbage…… Oh, by the way, if you hunt, fish, hike, or OHV, they are trying to take that money also. If you leave pavement, and go on dirt to recreate like listed above, the portion of OHV Fuel Tax is being taken too, so good luck getting to the trailheads to fish, or other recreation. I guess the saying that being a Dem is a Mental Disease may be correct after all………

By: Mr. Pickle

Mr. Pickle — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:40:02 +0000

And WHEN was the last time this state allowed a NEW refinery to be built? Again, Dem control of the Legislature. The won’t allow it, and none of us scream about it………
Throw the bums out. 100% of Ca problems are caused by Dems, as they have had total control of the legislature and our DEBT problem lies on their shoulders. Similar to the issues we face in DC, as in the costly UN-affordable health care ripoff the Dems put into place. Grrrrrrrr……………

By: Mr. Pickle

Mr. Pickle — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:35:43 +0000

In reply to Spurwing Plover. Yup. But you got it wrong. Tax increase need a vote of the people. That is why this should be a Stupidity Fee, because they can sneek these in by manipulating the system.

By: Mr. Pickle

Mr. Pickle — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:33:48 +0000

In reply to bob. I concur with Bob. The reality is the last 30 years of Dem control, has run this state into the toilet financially. It does NOT take in enough funding to pay the existing DEBT the Dems have bestowed upon the taxpayers. I am amazed that Ca voters continue to send these people back to office year after year. And how MUCH do we pay to cross the GG Bridge on a Sunday?????

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:37:15 +0000

In addition to the huge taxes to generate revenues to fund the transportation infrastructure, the emissions crusaders inclusive of Governor Brown and Tom Steyer are so focused on the crusade to shut down the California oil industry that they have demonstrated their lack of understanding of basic Economics 101. With California being an energy island with the Sierra Mountains on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other side, there are no pipelines “into” the state from the rest of the country. By shutting down the oil industry, they would be depriving the airports of the 10,000,000 gallons of jet fuel required every day to keep them running smoothly, resulting in an international economic crisis. In addition, the 97% of our 32 million vehicles that run on conventional transportation fuels would be deprived of the 40,000,000 gallons of fuel being consumed every day, also resulting in a world economic crisis. All the above manufactured fuels are now manufactured in-state by the few manufacturers that are left in California. The emissions crusade extension for another decade to 2030 is NOT a hit on big oil, it’s a hit on the California and World economies.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 21:45:33 +0000

How about a Stupidity Tax to be paid by these lawmakers and the California Air Resources Board

By: bob

bob — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 18:56:16 +0000

No matter how high taxes are they will never be high enough for the criminal politicians that rule us.

By: Colonel Bill Kilgore

Colonel Bill Kilgore — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 18:55:03 +0000

Tax’em good and hard then tax’em again.

Tax the shiite outta ’em.

Tax’em to the stoneage, son!

I love the smell of tax increases in the morning!

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:56:44 +0000

More gas tax??? Where is tax money collected now spent? Also do not forget CA added sales tax to gas too. That is unconstitutional but who cares it is just a piece of paper.
Is that tax being used so Cal Trans workers can retire at 50-55? Why is it govt employees at all levels can retire long before the 65 people in the private sector with a huge retirement. It is way past time to change retirement for govt employees. That would save enough to fix our roads.