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The per-mile tax will be in addition to the per-gallon taxes and sales taxes on those taxes. This is California, after all, and it is anaethema to the Damnocrats to repeal a tax.
"The GPS-Web operates anywhere in USA, Mexico, and Canada where any cell towers exist. Other systems are reliant on the limited coverage areas of specific cellular phone services."
That's what I said - the tracking device locates itself using GPS, and then makes a cellular phone communication to somebody else. No information is broadcast to the satellite.
Do you have a better way hidden up your sleeve of paying for road construction and maintenance?
The likely trick is they'll reduce the gas tax for a short time to make the mileage tax lesss offensive. Then, once people get used to paying the mileage tax, they'll raise the gas tax to where it was before.
>> Cheap (low-tax) gas for visitors
Which is exactly the argument that will used to justify keeping the old gas-tax system along with the new system. The state couldn't let the out-of-staters drive in California without paying their fair share.
Mayhaps they will pass an intercourse tax. That should raise some revenue!
Californication and Taxachussets; the pincers of death.
Reread my post. I never said otherwise.
Actually, the Vehicle Excise tax was gradually reduced by law then reinstated by Grey Davis just before the recall election. One of Arnold's first acts was to get rid of it and to can the head of the DMV for not being quick enough in sending out refunds to those that had already paid the higher fees.
At this point, you won't get an argument from me.
Can you imagine getting your "mileage tax" bill in the mail?
I LOVE this idea!! Would we pay our mileage taxes by the quarter, like estimated federal income tax?? When the public has to fork over several hundred dollars in mileage tax a few times a year they will realize they are being over-taxed and revolt.
Everyone in Southern California knows when we get in our car we never go anywhere.....we just sit there! SO TRUE, SO TRUE!!!
An article I read on this says the state would repeal the 18 cents per gallon excise tax on gasoline. They don't mention the sales tax that adds another 18 cents at the pump.
Next time you are at the pump, consider that with the California excise tax, the California sales tax and the federal excise tax, the total tax per gallon is 56 cents.
On a 16 gallon fill up, $8.96 of the a $39.20 fill up (at 2.46/gal) is for taxes.
It'll be the end of car pools.....
No, it wasn't because McClintock was too conservative. It was because as a legislator, he's been a loner, a maverick, in many ways a "caucus of one." A governor has to build a team, build an consensus on things such as the budget, and lead -- all things McClintock has never given evidence of his ability to do. McClintock's been a great spokesman for his positions -- he just isn't "governor" material.
"Do you have a better way hidden up your sleeve of paying for road construction and maintenance?"
They haven't done any real road construction in CA for many years. It is just an excuse for more taxes and less privacy. It's a socialist's dream!
Gee, Maybe they could tax the gasoline by the gallon so those who drive the most miles, thus using the most gas would pay the most in taxes.
Of course they will much prefer to install sensors in/on the cars and roadways and add a thick layer of bureaucracy to the whole thing.
Road construction and maintanence is already paid for. But crooked politicians route the money into the general fund and use it for pet social programs that guarantee the extremist voting blocks will put them back in office the next election.
If citizens did their civic duty and made sure the money was spent where its supposed to be, we'd still have the best highway and road system in the nation.
However, because people see a pothole, they automatically think we must pay new taxes, because they have been brainwashed that way. California has a budget of billions of dollars a year. While 60% goes to education, there is still plenty of money for roads. Our governor would rather spend the money on buying land for "conservancies", taking it off tax roles and exacerbating the situation.
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