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Posted on 05/07/2014 9:48:35 PM PDT by lowbridge
Sick of the gas tax?
What about a tax on every mile you drive?
A new bill going through Sacramento would tax drivers for every mile they are on the road.
The state gasoline tax of 52.9 cents per gallon could be replaced with a "miles driven fee" of $0.05 cents or so per mile driven, under state legislation proposed by a Bay Area lawmaker.
State transit officials note that there's not nearly enough money available to fix the many bridges and roads in California that are in desperate need of repair.
A federal highway fund, based on taxes on fuel, is expected to run dry this summer.
“We've got to figure out how to pay for infrastructure,” state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) said. “One philosophy is, if you use it, you should pay for it.”
Under SB 1077, introduced by DeSaulnier, a still-to-be-determined California city would begin taxing motorists in January 2016. The longer your commute, the more you would pay.
That may yet be a tough sell, but a $0.05 per mile fee could raise over $100 billion for roads in some parts of the state, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
It could all simply be that the generation currently in governing age has a monstrous chip on its shoulder and just wants to cause as much pain to other people as possible. Sounds a lot like now-jaded and disappointed former ‘60s and ‘70s radicals, doesn’t it?
After increasing the sales tax, why do they need this new tax?
This will screw Vegas more.
Will IMO have everyone filing writing off mileage for work more.
Will this end the other gas tax? No!
We have stupid turds running this state.
Take the tax transponder off the liberal neighbors car and attach it to a passing ups van or city bus. Elections have consequences.
1. Declare problem to raise revenue.
2. Create policy to encourage / discourage behavior in order to raise revenue via fees or fines.
3. Fees and fines alter behavior and soon bad behavior stops and revenue slows.
4. Slowing of revenue is reclassified as a problem.
5. Go to step 1.
What about a tax on every mile you drive?
May California change places with Puerto Rico!
Enjoy the Marxism you voted for Californians! Don’t leave because of it. You voted for it now reap the consequences.
As the Beatles once said:
If you drive your car I’ll tax the street.
You take a walk I’ll tax your feet
Now ,it’s if you drive too far I’ll tax your car.
How are they going to tax the Amish?
Perhaps the moron proposing the new tax would be good enough to publish the amount of gas tax being collected under the present system and where the money is being spent.
I’ve heard this proposal floated before...what they actually want is to put a GPS unit in your vehicle. Then THEY compute how many miles you’ve driven. You can’t dispute their calculations either.
I hate California politics, but the love the area and climate we live in south Orange County. But this one will push me and millions over the edge to leave this commie state.
If the government ever told me that I need to install a GPS in my car, I’ll tell them that they can Kiss my A$$.
They could do like they do here in North Carolina where you get taxed on your car EVERY YEAR based on its estimated value as long as you have it (or many).
That is some serious taxing, but it is true also of my State of SD. It is just probably more affordable here. Our registration fees doubled about three years ago and are likely still cheaper than NC.
On a more upbeat note, Greeenville NC, Pitt Co. IIRC the birthplace of my mother who in her 93 years, never lost her southern accent having lived all over the world.
Then they'll build more monuments to themselves and not fix the Highways,
perpetuating the situation to bring in more tax hikes.
Well, why don’t Cali mandate people buying gas hogs. I see a market for 1977 Cadillacs and Lincolns.
Like working for a company that charges people for bandaids and then going around cutting peoples fingers with a razor blade because they weren’t making enough money selling bandaids.
Let’s do some math:
The number of gallons of vehicle fuel consumed in California is approximately 18 billion gallons:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/hf/pl11028/chapter5.cfm
However, these are 2009 figures and let’s say that consumption now is 22 billion gallons of vehicle fuel annually
22 billion gallons x $0.529 = $11,638,000,000.00
So, right off we see that the proposal to raise $100 billion represents a nearly ten fold increase over the current revenue.
There are approximately 33.3 million registered cars, vans, trucks, motorcycles, etc in California:
http://dmv.ca.gov/about/profile/official.pdf
Consequently, the per registered vehicle fuel tax burden is approximately:
$11.638 billion/33.3 million registered vehicles = $349.49/registered vehicle
In order to eliminate the fuel tax entirely and raise the $100 billion based on a $0.05/mile driven tax requires a total mileage of:
$100 billion/$0.05/mile driven = 2,000,000,000,000 miles driven
2 trillion miles!
To put that into perspective:
2 trillion miles/33.3 million registered vehicles =
60060 miles/year/registered vehicle
($3003/year mileage tax)
5005 miles/month/registered vehicle
($250/month mileage tax)
164 miles/day/registered vehicle
($8/day mileage tax)
The proposal requires that every registered vehicle in the state be driven 164 miles each day of the year.
It is interesting to note that the legislator proposing this tax has a 200 mile/per day daily commute. He must think that every one else in California has a similar comute as well.
Note: Although I did use a spreadsheet to do these calculations, it is still pretty early here on the East Coast. When you are dealing with that many zeros, the possibility of an error exists. Frankly, given the derived magnitude of the proposed increase and its likely impact on the average driver if implemented, I hope I did make an error somewhere along the line.
LOLOL!!!! you're bad...
You hack it.
With this law I can imagine a lucrative business in hacking odometers.
TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX
It’s all they understand.
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