So what’s next for California, a tax for the number of times you take a breath each year?
Unfortunately, if this was set up so the money that we would pay, this would be the fairest way to pay for road use.
My wife’s Lexus is 10+ years old and just turned 50K miles, and my medium size pickup is 6 years old with 40k miles.
If it was fair, our road upkeep tax cost per year per vehicle would be less than someone pounding the pavement over 40,000 miles per year with each vehicle.
Probably the biggest road wear and damage comes from the big trucks and in our state, many trucks are from out of state. Most of these trucks have some sort of GPS system, to tally a road use tax.
Vehicle weight is another factor re tearing/wearing down roads.
Before people go ballistic on paying your fair cost on road use.
What if restaurants charged the same for a couple who splits a meal, has one glass of house wine each and shares a salad, and a dessert versus a couple demanding several name brand drinks before dinner, ordering two of the most expensive entrees, salads, ordering the most expensive wine in the restaurant, having two of the most expensive desserts in the restaurant with an expensive after dinner drink and a expensive coffee combo. Time wise the first couple is an out of the restaurant in about 45 minutes, and the second couple could claim squatters rights.
How often would you have dinner with the second couple if they asked for a single bill and divided the cost by 2?
“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.”
“NOT nearly enough money available”, because the Democrats stole it all for their party purposes to buy votes.
Every road and every street, every alley etc. will be made into a “toll road”.
This is a test. There will come a day, probably hot far away, where everyone will have to justify their weekly mileage.
Didn't people in this country at one time hang "horse thieves" for a good reason?
San Francisco cannot fall off the coast into deep water soon enough.
At least it will now not matter what type of gas guzzler we drive.
Two reasons: Destroy rural life. Know the whereabouts and movements of everyone at all times.
HAD ENOUGH YET?
At some point the penalties for living in CA outweigh the benefits.
“One philosophy is, if you use it, you should pay for it.”...?
WE ALREADY HAVE PAID FOR IT YOU GIANT A-HOLES!!!
Just another nail in the coffin of the middle class in California...Only the damn idiots who pass this $#^t don’t realize the only people left here will be the very poor who don’t drive and very rich who could not care less.
The longer your commute, the more you would pay?...Another middle finger to the shrinking middle class in California.
I am confused.
Gas purchased is used for driving, almost exclusively. Ok, someone will point out that sometimes gas purchased will be used for mowing the lawn, or whatever, but I would bet that the great majority of gas used is for driving. So, why not just tax the gas purchased? What a concept. As a matter of fact, they do this already, “The state gasoline tax of 52.9 cents per gallon”.
I must be missing something.
I am guessing that they wont actually repeal the state gas tax, but they will just add another tax onto the state gas tax.
I was talking to a liberal about this:
Lib: They will tax you for mileage instead of gas.
Me: So they are getting rid of the gas tax?
Lib: Not immediately. Eventually.
Me: The Democrats are getting rid of a tax.
Lib: If they raise enough revenue with the mileage.
Me: Enough?
Lib: Even if they don’t, it will reduce Global Climate Change.
Me: And have a bigger impact on the poor.
Lib: They will be exempt.
Me: What about Global Climate Change? Do their cars not contribute to it?
Lib: I give up.
These dumbass politicians are going to nail all those folks who bought Prius’s to get better gas mileage...You still drive the same miles you numbnuts so you ALL get screwed!
That would certainly slow down the commuting paradigm.
Next thing y’ know, they’ll be taxing air miles.
Tax gouging is what progressive thieves do best. Will criminal aliens be given a pass?