Posted on 04/08/2017 11:30:02 AM PDT by EagleUSA
Related video: See how much California's gas tax bill will cost drivers (provided by KCRA Sacramento).
California legislators approved a $52 billion infrastructure plan on Thursday meant to address a massive backlog of repair and maintenance projects, while creating thousands of new jobs.
State drivers will shoulder much of the financial burden for the new plan: The bill raises gas taxes by 12 cents a gallon and creates a new annual fee for vehicle owners.
Supporters of the bill said the average driver would pay about $10 more per month in fuel taxes, and most drivers will pay between $25 and $50 annually to license vehicles valued under $25,000.
The measure is a significant win for Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who campaigned hard to win votes for the first gas tax increase in the last 23 years.
"Fixing our roads is basic," Brown said at a rally Wednesday on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento. "If you don't do it now it gets more expensive next year and the year after."
Most of the money, about $33.7 billion, will pay for a backlog of infrastructure repair projects that has grown to $130 billion. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that half the state's roads are in poor conditions.
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SUCKERS!
How long will it be until they announce the construction of a major new building or full of lavishly equipped government offices for themselves as an infrastructure project?
Well good for them, all the more infrastructure for the rest of America!!! (When is Mexico going to start taxing Californians for living in their State)...Just Wondering...
Its a shame Brown can’t managed the budget
Hey, it’s expensive to pay for democrat voter majority type infrastructure.
I luv when fools vote for socialism and get hit in the face with socialism...
“...I luv when fools vote for socialism and get hit in the face with socialism...”
That is why the RATS keep flooding Taxifornia with the right kind of voters....illegals, welfare bums, drug addicts, homeless, criminals, and stupid school kids.
Taxes, taxes, taxes.
You make it, they take it.
Well if you didn’t like it, you’d vote for someone else. :)
Price of grocery and every single item will go up.
I luv when fools vote for socialism and get hit in the face with socialism...
I love it, too. But most of the fools don’t understand what is hitting them and just accept it until the next smack in the face and accept it again.
Some realize that something is wrong so they move to another state and vote in the same things.
CA corruption on display. Moonbeam and his corrupt cohorts, conceived in the sewer, prove that Liberalism is a mental disease.
us conservatives should be arguing for eliminating state gas tax and privatizing all state highways & interstates
“CA corruption on display.”
To be sure, so the only end game for the sane people here is that the RATs pull out all the stops and succeed shortly in putting the State into bankruptcy. Then there’s a small chance that a recovery will, of necessity bring the “free lunch crowd here” to their senses. Otherwise, California’s “future” is being the Massachusetts of the Left Coast.
The only way one can afford to live in CA, is to be either dirt poor, or filthy rich. The middle class is being squeezed out of existence. I might add this has always been the intent of Communism. Destroy the middle class.
THIEVES
“SUCKERS”
LOL! More than you know! A poll out this morning showed 64% of the people here in California support the bill.
Here in California if Democrats tell you its good for you, the people will support it
Union pensions get recharged. End of story.
Oregon (Portland controlled) voters are just as dumb and evil.
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