[NormsRevenge]

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[stboz]

Cut state programs for sex-change operations and I'll listen....otherwise, bug-off.

[concerned about politics]

raising the gasoline tax to improve a state road system hurt by four years of diverting transportation funds to tighten budget gaps.

Stop diverting the funds. Start a charity to pay for what ever low life left wing group is sucking up the cash. Problem solved.

All left wing programs should be paid for by charity. If the nation thinks they're important, they'll give. Stealing from the innocent isn't the answer.

[hoot2]

like 6 cents is really gonna do something...
c'mon, hike it a $1.00, n FIX THE ROADS...

(kalli is gonna be the 1st state to tax its way to prosperity...diversity is our strength, special interest programs for everyone)

[snopercod]

That will dovetail nicely with the 8 cent per gallon increase the U.S. House is considering.

[Rain-maker]

6 cent gas tax hike to pay for all them pending legal battles from gay marriages.(smirk)

If OPEC production cuts don't sheer them naked, the CA beaucrats will.
Apparently Cali-sheeple are easily shorn, and the smart ones moved off to a tax friendly states.
We luv taxes baahhhh...

Someone say move to Nevada, Wyoming, Florida, or Texas?

[from occupied ga]

Californians pay hundreds of dollars more than the average American for auto repairs and other costs due to rough roads, Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill said, adding that increased traffic congestion is harming the state's economy.

SO now they want the Kalifornians to pay hundreds of dollars more each in taxes and they still won't fix the roads. Government in action. A gun to your head and a hand in your wallet, meanwhile sanctimoniously bleating about how taking your money is good for you.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Amazing! The chief economist in California (the Legislative Analyst) wants to abolish Prop. 42 and replace it with a 6% increase in the gas tax rate. Reason? Gas tax cannot be raided.

Doesn't the LAW, via Prop. 42 already state that those funds cannot be raided and MUST be dedicated to roads and bridges?

Then the article talks of Schwartzenegger suspending Prop. 42, to raid that money. ON WHAT BASIS? If he can illegally suspend the LAW in the form of the voter approved Prop. 42, what is stopping him from illegally suspending Prop. 13 and doubling property taxes?

Then the Legislative Analyst declares we need the gas tax rate to increase with traffic increase. What a sham. Gas tax revenue already increases with traffic. If you double traffic, you double the gallons of gas sold and you double the revenue collected. Who does she think she's fooling.

California government truly is a shell game. Is there any wonder I intend to retire out of state, return to America and take my money with me.

[John Jorsett]

History of the California gasoline tax:

In 1990, voters approved Prop 111 (laughingly titled "The Traffic Congestion Relief and Spending Limitation Act of 1990"), which doubled the California excise tax on gasoline over 4 years:

Prior to 8/1/1990 = 9.0¢/gallon
8/1/1990 = +5.0¢/gallon
1/1/1991 = +1.0¢/gallon
1/1/1992 = +1.0¢/gallon
1/1/1993 = +1.0¢/gallon
1/1/1994 = +1.0¢/gallon
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18.0¢/gallon
And don't forget to add on the sales tax, which is also applied to the above excise taxes themselves(!).

The first question out of anyone's mouth when somebody says, "We need more money for [insert popular thing here]" should be, "What the hell happened to all the money we've already given you?" In this particular case, "Where the hell is all the Prop 111 money going?"

[CdMGuy]

Let's call a spade, a spade. The so-called California non-partisan legislative analyst is anything but non-partisan. I have lived in CA for near 34 years, and this post has always been filled with a left leaning political hack who never felt there was enough tax revenue and spending. For years, the idiot's name was A. Alan Post. Now, it is this Hill woman. Too bad Arnold can't do away with this position, but note that she is an employee of the legislature.

Each day of such nonsense gets me closer to planning my retirement in another state. If it wasn't that CA has the best weather in the US, if not the world, no one who is self sufficient would live here.