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California Set For A 10-Cent Gas Tax Hike
When gas prices tumbled in late 2014 and early 2015, many states quietly considered, and some proposed, to take advantage of the "gas savings" and quietly institute a tax surcharge to fill up empty state coffers: after all it is much easier to implement price increases when the prevailing prices are lower than recent benchmark levels. So now that gas prices have resumed their climb in the footsteps of the price of crude oil, many assumed such "tax" proposals would quickly disappear, especially since all the speculation about a gas savings-driven spending surge by the US middle class turned out to be bogus.
It turns out such assumptions would be incorrect. According to the Hill, California is now officially considering increasing the amount of money drivers in their state will have to pay at the pump to help pay for transportation projects as federal road funding dries up.
Legislation has been in introduced in the California state Senate that would increase the state’s approximately 47 cents-per-gallon gas tax by 10 cents.
Presenting California's latest tax:
The new California fuel levy, which would be the state's first increase since 1994, will be collected on top of an 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax that is charged to all drivers in the nation to fill the federal government’s transportation funding coffers.
The American Petroleum Institute says the gas tax increase will bring the total amount of money that drivers in California are charged at the pump to more than 75 cents per gallon.
The state is the latest to consider increasing its gas tax in recent years as federal transportation funding has dried up.
California is not the only state taking advantage of what most on Wall Street call merely a transitory dip in prices:
Transportation advocates in Washington have pointed to the willingness of states like California to raise their own gas tax as evidence that a national hike would be politically palatable this year.
Conservative groups in Washington have made clear that they would consider an increase in the federal fuel levy a tax hike, however.
A gas tax hike is being contemplated not only at the state level, but at the Federal as well: "Lawmakers in Congress are currently facing a July 31 deadline for the expiration of federal transportation funding, and they are struggling to come up with a way to pay for a long-term extension of the measure after passing a patch in May that last only two months."
Ironically, recent improvements in gas efficiency have meant bad news for the US department of transportation, whose tax revenue has been declining as less gas is being sold at the pump: "The national gas tax has been the traditional source of transportation funding since its inception in the 1930s. The tax has not been increased since 1993, however, and improvements in auto fuel efficiency have sapped its purchasing power.
The federal government typically spends about $50 billion per year on transportation projects, but the gas tax only brings in approximately $34 billion annually at its current rate.
There is a reason for the saying: "if it moves, tax it", and with the US government in a constant underfunded state, it is likely only a matter of time before at least part of the gap with recent trendline gas prices is closed courtesy of Uncle Sam.
The irony, as California drivers are about to find out, is that as of this moment gas prices are just fractionally below where they were a year ago.
In fact, should oil prices rise by another $5 or so dollars, and the entire gap from a year ago will be filled. Said gap will be filled that much faster if the state Senate decides California drivers should be punished for not taking advantage of their "gas savings" when they could, and slaps them with a tax surcharge.
Which would be doubly ironic, because in the fight between OPEC and US shale, the biggest winners may end up none other than America's rapidly cash-burning states.
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Fuck californians....please stay there...if I see you here I will take violent action
You must live in Michigan or Ohio.
I'd like to tell you but I'd rather keep cali fucks away
Meet me at the unemployment office and we'll talk.
I don't talk to droids or humioniod zombies....too hard to converse with government robots
As one of the soon-to-be California fuckees, it has become abundantly clear that there will never be "enough" taxes to satisfy the government trough feeders. Never. They will continue to leach until the host dies. It's their vampiric nature.
Hitlery, save yourself your xenophobia. This taxation disease is going to be everywhere. Your ranting against Californians in general only showcases your ignorance. California has lots of hard-working, conservative, liberty-loving citizens any state would be proud to have as citizens and as residents. Anyway, as the old saying goes...
"Fuck off. It's a free country."
Or at least it used to be.
Back in the 1800's CA had a storm that left much of the central valley and all of Sac town under 3+ feet of water. Been hearing something about the possibility of something like that happening now is increasing. Wouldn't really mind seeing the whole thing get wiped clean and being able to start over.
Huh?
Tax on gas in CA was raised 10 cents/gallon on 1/1/15.
It's sad to see ZH parrot the incorrect writings of other media. It's NOT the first increase since 1994. It was raised last year like the commenter above says. It was also raised in in 2013. A simple google search would have hunted this out. But why make any effort, when you can be over dramtic and lather up your readers? They pretty much do it every time the price of oil gets low. They sneak it in because gas is low and it tends to cause people to freak out less. They also occasionally lower it. http://www.kcra.com/news/agency-votes-to-lower-california-gas-tax-by-6-cents/31451646 The new tax is basically a reversal of the last reduction, because it was set to take effect July 1.
They have to pay for their financial investment losses in Fracking due to market downswings...
Funny thing on PBS two days ago, Rubin and Paulson were on talking about how we need to improve the infrastructure and raise taxes to pay for it. All along with a smirk on their faces because they knew they wouldnt be paying a dime of that.
More like a 35 cents a gallon CA "Cap & Trade" tax increase on Jan. 1st, 2105: http://www.fresnogasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx
Unfortunately, the people who have caused the problems with California have no problem swimming through 3 feet of water...
However much it takes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ErpFBO7RI
Yeah, those people are doing the same thing here in Colorado.
California has lots of hard-working, conservative, liberty-loving citizens...
The share of Republicans in California declined to 28.4% in 2014. Thanks to open border immigration, California is now a permanent, one-party, Jerry Brown-democrat state, with 55 electoral votes.
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=526
"California has lots of hard-working, conservative, liberty-loving citizens"
Goddam right, and "liberal" ones too! Cocked & locked.
These NWO dick-sucking TROLLs want everyone to stab each other in the back, because their "bosses" pay them to write stupid shit like that.
Let's all remember that prior to the Bush (real name Scherff), Texas-Eron, "deregulation" scheme, the state had a surplus. When the fake losses were passed to the state, Gray Davis was handed a pile of shit.
Of course, the same assholes who caused and benefited from the scam had the Nazi poster boy to "fix" things...yeah.
The same huge debt looms, while more and more fisheries, forests, and "wild" areas are "deregulated" right into the Agenda 21 basket.
Dumasses! If you can't figure out why they love the term "deregulation", its because it always prompts illiterate morons to jump up and scream "no government"!...while they quietly legislate more government and debt.
Red or blue, they all have the same masters. Rich v. everyone else is the reality. Wake TF up!
Problem is every other state will do the same soon cause they're all going broke now
And a gas tax is the easiest one to pass cause it's considered being fair.
Except to the 95%
SC is arguing over how big a gas tax to implement. I think it's a terrible idea. SC is thinking about offsetting this gas tax increase (to some measure) with an income tax cut, but it's just mental masturbation. Yes, taxes must go up, but those increases wont fix the problem. . .
Taxes need to be removed entirely, governments have other options for funding.
Printing press or lobbying contributions?
It will go nicely with the 4k/mo rent for an absolute shithole.
"governments have other options for funding"
Yeah, "work" from productive people like you?
You want something for nothing, and then want to oppress others from "getting" it.
A bunch of assholes pointing fingers and guns at each other is not a community, nor will it ever be.
"Competitive advantage" is not "independence".
It's rape and pillage of nations or people without the desire to have armies.
When (or "if") humans ever fucking "grow the fuck up", then we can have "no government".
It's about fucking time...anyone man enough to start?
Can you live and let others live who are not like you?
Well it's important for Cali to build that high speed rail through the stinkin' desert so they can get the proles to the new fun camps.......
"important for Cali to build that high speed rail"
You act like "ctizens" had a goddam thing to say about it.
Check out the opwnership and MIC contractors who wrote the bill and will scam the public with it.
Btw, let's hear more of your genius ideas to imporve the everyday lives of working Americans, Einstein.
Bullshit...it is fair to the 95%. The parasite class has no skin in the game whatsoever, without these kinds of broad based taxes. Is it rational, another ten cents in CA? probably not...at some point a tipping will occur and people will vote (more) with their feet.
Fuck the parasite class...Wall Street, K Street, Hollywood, the ghetto & the barrio
"Fuck the parasite class...Wall Street, K Street, Hollywood, the ghetto & the barrio"
Nice Trol comment.
The fucking "ghetto" and "barrio" built Wall St. and Hollywood, dork!
Anyone else seeing large moves in end of year oil purchase contracts for $100 bucks per barrel!????? Clients/traders are telling me that next week oil is going to spike... wtf!!!!
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That's it, target the other poor serfs who are getting fucked over by the psychopathic criminals running the country. That will make things better.
You know when someone has fallen for the elitist propaganda when they are attacking other people who aren't harming or threatening harm to them in any way. Either that, or thundercunt_4_dicklessness is trolling and I've fallen for it.
Native Idahoans and Texans would strongly disagree. Californians, as a rule, bring with them a need for big government wherever they emigrate. "Californian Go Home" is not just a clever bumpersticker, but a plea for mercy.
They can disagree all they want, people are much the same anywhere in the world though, you'll have good ones and freeloaders. I've lived in Idaho and met a proportionate amount of douche bags there as I have in California and I don't imagine it'd much different anywhere in the world.
People either are willing to let others live in peace, or they want to take from those that produce.
Fuck you you cocksucker! There are millions, MILLIONS of libertarians, conservatives and freedom lovers who refuse to abandon our home state and have NOTHING to do with it's leftist takeover. If you wanna blame someone blame Alzheimer'ed Ronald Regan for signing the '86 amnesty and GW for letting the invasion reach apocalyptic levels.
So yeah die in a fire you fucking cunt. Those of us who didn't bail to whatever shit hole you live in will still be fighting the good fight at the local government level however we can.
And fuck your mother to, bitch :-)
LOL struck a nerve did I.
As much as a faceless internet douchebag can. The idea of group think fucks like you so full of cognitive dissonance that you actually think your free thinking liberty lovers makes me wanna vomit.
Or enjoy an iced glass of bourbon and smoke some fine CA cannabis :-) On second thought I'm not that mad at all. Things could always be worse. Think I'll go out side and enjoy some mid-70's weather...
I'm not a liberty activist I'm an anachist - think I'll go outside and shoot my ar-15 without a bullet button and fill up my v-8 S/C car with cheap 93 octane gas...enjoy your weed you cali retard. Careful with that ice I hear there is a shortage of that....
If you were a real anarchist bitch you'd kinda want other's to be free instead blaming them for their oppression no? Let's meet on the range because believe as the state of CA knows I am a gun owner.
And I smoke weed occasionally before making sweet, sweet love to my CA cutie lady. Think about that the next time you need images to jerk off to in your survival bunker AKA your Mom's basement.
There's a lot in California worth fighting for, especially the girls. Nihilist and I are going to turn this place around after natural selection takes out the trash, you'll see, H4D...
No sense feeding the roll any further. What just irritates me is that this is ZeroHedge. We're the elite of the elite as far as getting the message out. People who go to this iste are the types who are going to be needed as the Federal government eats itself. We're the ones who will be working with our neighbors and city councilman to solve problems when the top level governments go broke.
We should all be supporting each other. But cunts like him would rather play to the Team Red/Blue branding meme. It's more sad than anything. Luckily for us things aren't likely to disentigrate in the way the prepper assholes hope. As Ron Paul said the Federal Government will just become more and more irrelevant (weed legalization is a great example) and we'll all have the chance to effect change at the local level. Let him stay in his cave.
Right you are. Free yourself, make money, make babies, make a community with no place for criminals, elected or otherwise. Nobody is beyond redemption though...
Make money, eh? You must be one of those central banker people... :)
To clarify, I meant money (PMs), not fiat :)
You aren't alone. In OC, 33, bourbon & the green. We will have our time.
Left the OC for Raleigh in 1993 and raised three independent-thinking kids. Still have parents and a sister living in NB. While I miss my memories of OC in the 60's & 70's, I sincerely wish y'all the best.
BTW, one of my children recently escaped to Boise and that IS the new frontier for opportunity and quality-of-life.
Keep the fire burning!
Hey Dr.F, appreciate the well wishes. Would love to get out to your neck of the woods for some adventure in the near future. Congrats on bringing the kids up the right way. My little brother is in Boise, beautiful area, hope to get up there this summer.
There are more like myself and the gentlemen above in the S.California area that some would like to admit. Just because we may not be as vocal on ZH doesnt mean we are not doing what we can. Wishing your family in NB, Boise, and yourself well.
It will keep burning, I can promise you that!
Appreciate the camaraderie bro ;-) If the CA GOP wasn't so completely inept maybe things wouldn't be so bad. But in reality they needed to implode. The social conservatives destroyed the brand... If you had a Rand Paul type who was a halfway decent politician they could pull out a win. If anything the demographics have gotten BETTER since Arnie left. Most of the tech workers and even a lot of the entertainment industry base skews libertarian.
I'm in LA County for the record. But there are pockets of sanity even here :-)
From what was heard around my neck of the woods was the only ones left there are the ones that put the state in their predicament, plus all the multicuturalistic wannabes are actually quite at home in old Calif.
Did you notice the Reagan / Bush bashing came out right up front. As usual.
"We have to read it to find out what is in it" "after we pass it".
"...MILLIONS of libertarians, conservatives and freedom lovers who refuse to abandon our home state and have NOTHING to do with it's leftist takeover..."
On the contrary: "Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann.
You can keeping voting, but you'll keep losing. The State of Jefferson supporters will figure that out soon [I hope].
Fuck you to dumb ass! And it's not Californians but humans.
But your small dumb ass mind can't comprehend it yet. Things should start aking sense to you though when you start turning 11 maybe 12 years old.
In the mean time Fuck you!
The first mistake you made is calling californians humans...
You really are 12 aren't you?
Poor baby...
why don't you get off the computer and go play outside.
Just go the Fuck Away.
What started the fall off the cliff for the economy in '07 was the $5.00 gasoline and high diesel costs.
$5,00 seems to be the magic number. I guess we'll see pretty quick what happens.
What started the fall off the cliff for the economy in '07 was the $5.00 gasoline and high diesel costs.
$5,00 seems to be the magic number. I guess we'll see pretty quick what happens.
PYCHOPATH
It's still peanuts compared with what we pay in the UK
Nice logical fallacy
You don't have to pay to house, feed, educate, insure, and incarcerate 1/3 of Mexico
Why was it that colonists risked a trip across the ocean in a leaky wooden boat to live with Indians in the woods???? I've forgotten.....
For the 'freedoms' we enjoy so much today.
That help?
Cheap Mexican labor.
You don't have to pay to house, feed, educate, insure, and incarcerate 1/3 of Mexico
It's cool, I'm sure they'll lower it if prices rise.
Dodecatuple Seasonal Adjustment puts that at a savings of $2/gallon.
As a Californian, I can tell you Californians never met a tax they didn't love love LOVE. So democracy is working just splendidly over here thank you.
yes, having lived in both states, the big difference between Taxas and California is that they actually make the illegals pay taxes in Texas. You are correct, everyone does seem all too happy to carry the load in Cali...
Californians happily taking lodes? Is this about taxes or porn?
pretty sure CA is the capital of both taxes and porn...
Looks like the State is preparing another 'money-shot' to the face of the CA taxpayer.
Your part of the fucking problem dipshit. Last I checked shitty Goldman asshole Neil Kaskari got 2,929,213 hold your nose votes in CA. But you know, let's blame the victim...
Dude, I'm on your side. Just show me a proposition on the ballot to raise taxes, or better yet to issue a shitload of bonds, that DIDN'T win in the last 10-20 years.
Democracy is giving people what they want, good and hard, working as intended.
Californians would pay more for gas because a massive Mexican immigration wave is sapping state budgets to pay for exploding welfare, education, and infrastructure costs (gas can be purchased with EBT card cash benefits).
Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187, the 1994 Save Our State ballot initiative with 59% of the vote to end California tax money being used for mandatory welfare for illegal aliens. Prop 187 was over turned by a single Federal judge.
As immigration causes the California budget to go up, the cost must be passed onto the people.
In the 2013 U.S. Census report of the city of San Jose, California, - the heart of Silicon Valley -- the White alone (not Hispanic or Latino) percentage of the population (2010) was 28.7%
Just south of San Jose, the white population of Monterey County in 2014 was 31.6%.
In 2014, the white percentage of California’s 38 million people was down to 39%.
Viva La Revolutione!
The Kenyan plans to send you another 5 mil to take care of! Woohoo!
@Alberich
Sorry brother. That dude just really set me off. Your enjoying some moring reading and then BAM someone is basically saying "Fuck you" to all your friends and neighbors. I got a little heated LOL! We'll wait them out my friend. Jerry over played his hand with the water thing. Even if we get another Dem governor I'll be he's closer to Schwarzenggar (who was for all intents a moderate Dem) than to Brown. It'll probably be Gavin Newsome and whomever runs to his right from Team Blue will beat him. Also Housing Bubble 2.0 is popping which will effect budgets mightily. Things tend to improve when the state has LESS money.
Barry is sendin' ya' a few million more brown illegals to help y'all out! Woohoo! 'Dreams of My Father!'
You mean the criminal psychopathic rulers of the state haven't met a tax the didn't love love love...
Everyone I know is outgrowing the political bullshit game that has been used in this country for the past 100 years or so. Even the older generations which I thought I would never see.
TeH sTooPiD is going to be epic in these comments.
Cognitive dissonance defined:
Residents of Texas are patriots fighting against they're Federal Government Oppressors
Residents of Orange County are spineless closet leftists for not preventing CA from slipping into a socialistic nightmare.
Totally fucking irrational and plays right into the typical Team Red/Blue divide and conquer strategy.
You dumb fucks are really fucking dumb...
Californian hero & role model Ms Caitlyn Jenner would be offended by the 'closet' crack! Shame!
I wish we could just blame it on people like Jerry "some people deserve more water than others" Brown, but even the direct democracy is all about raising taxes and limiting freedom.
Legalize weed? Voters say no. X million in bonds for trendy cause of the month? Voters say yes.
Maybe that will change someday and I hope you're right, but my strategy is working around that system as much as possible.
I think the tide is turning on the ballot stuff as well. Most tech workers are Ron Paul libertarians and the old GOP'ers who poison the brand with the strict social conservatism are dying off. If you looked at the last election with the sentencing reform passing and some other candidates and issues CA is leaning slightly libertarian. Even Brown's tax proposals weren't really that radical and he did put them to a vote. Outside of direct infrastructure spending on water and highways I think using the ballot box funding is dead in CA.
Plus the gender reassignment industry is booming!
same here as far as strategy is concerned, making the current system irrelevant is the only solution I see working.
The problem is this is coming to every state as our states are needing more and more money to provide more and more free services to the sheeple...
Reminds me of Toll Roads here in Dallas. The roads have been paid for for years, yet the tolls stay in place and keep rising. Such a fleece.
But with an auto debit toll tag, it almost like free!!
Got to love digital currency....it's so CONvenient.
I have yet to figure out how this is not a double tax?!? Our tax dollars build the fucking roads, then they toll tax us to "re-coup" the tax dollars. Then keep taxing after all debts are paid!!
Crazy pills.
Everything is a double tax... .gov taxes the resource extractors several different ways, taxes transportation from extraction point to processing point several ways, taxes processing several different ways, taxes transportation from processing plant to wholesaler / retail multiple different ways, taxes the wholesaler / retailer multiple ways, and then taxes you again to purchase the product on money you have already been taxed on multiple times...
Would be interesting to see the math on how much of your money is indirectly or directly taxed on various different products. I'd guess that at least 75% of the cost of most things you buy was because of downstream taxation.
@yrad:
Just a week ago, I found myself having to drive to the Hell-hole that is L.A. (not by choice, BTW). I live in the east burbs known as the IE (Inland Empire) so I have no reason to want to drive to L.A., ever. Anyway, it's been at least two years since I had to go there, and I found myself tooling along the WB San Bernardino Freeway (AKA: Interstate 10) at 6AM, half asleep. I was in the Car Pool lane with a friend along with me. No problem, right? Guess I was wrong! Along about where the 10 crosses the 605 Freeway, the CP lane suddenly changes into a Toll Lane! I suddenly realized I was in the "FasTrak" (AKA Pay Up, Suckers!) Lane. It came without warning, and I didn't know what to do to (legally) get out of the lane. I crossed over the double white (note: NOT yellow) line to get into the main traffic lanes - which I found out later is actually illegal to cross and an instant $450 ticket if a cop sees you - thankfully, I wasn't caught.
Somewhere along the line, the wonderful L.A. bureaucracy known as "Metro" took it upon themselves to convert the CP lanes into pay lanes - how is is legal? I have no idea, all our gas taxes paid for these lanes years and years ago. It's a money grab, plain and simple. A fleece, indeed.
I pretty much forgot about it, until a week later, I get a letter in the mail with a nice photo of the back of my car with the plates shown, and a $29.00 fine for having the temerity to encroach upon their sacred lanes without the gov't sanctioned "FasTrak box" that automatically debits your account for the privilege of driving in "their" lane. The letter states if you don't pay, they will increase the fine to $59.00, then report you to the DMV and suspend your registration and on top of that, send you to collections! Our wonderful government is so efficient when it comes to finding you, when there's money they can squeeze out of a US citizen! Can't find 10 mil. illegals living in the state, but they'll sure as Hell find you when there's money to be had!
I called the bastards and complained (after waiting for an hour on hold), and they oh-so-graciously told me they'd remove the fine "this time". I told the guy on the phone, don't worry, it won't happen again. I don't plan to go to L.A. again, ever, if I can help it. God Damn, this shit pisses me off, when you're caught up in a net even when trying to comply with all their f'n rules, and shit. Fuck them all.
Form compounds...areas where you deliberately concentrate like-minded folks. Make a concerted effort to buy up entire neighborhoods. When the compounds are big enough, they have to listen.
BTW, that goes for anyone. If you are gay, a neo-Nazi, a hard-boiled racist, whatever. If you all clot together, you should be able to create your own private Idaho's in your little areas, and be left alone there by others.
As long as you respect the commons! Which is for EVERYBODY.
At least they still have gas to tax?
Wait till you see the tax they'll put on water.
hell, go .20, the demon tards won't notice & if did would be delighted it's for giving free chit to non members of USSA
"the federal government’s transportation funding coffers"
LOL, that was a good one, Tyler!
High Speed rail would go a long way to remedy this.
Only the route out of the state!
Just route it thru the drive-thru windows and people will get on board.
Now that was fucking hilarious....
California used to be a cool place back in the sixties and seventies when the hippies were in charge.
salute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCa3GvbNUE
Too bad they 'grew up' and became socialist freaks!
What, you can't wield a bigger brush. Just another hippie basher. We just grow our hair longer, son.
Merely a +20% jump in tax costs! More deflationary pressure I guess?
How much will this tax add to GDP?
I suspect most of this new tax will be spent on funding that "free" healthcare for illegals they just passed. Good luck with all of that.
Just part of the 'progressive' plan to tax the cost of a gallon of gas to $20/gallon in order to make those 500 year old windmills make a bit of sense!
'Change You Can Believe In!'
At a least a windmill harnasses some of the bloviations from the Sacramento pols. Maybe even some flatulence from the illegals.
As long as it makes the morons at CNBC stop asking why we aren't spending our gas savings, go ahead.
If they keep pushing. Some people might just snap. Where the fuck is this money going to cone from ????
I love expensive gas. Whatever makes personal mobility more expensive for the peons, then I'm all for it.
What is included in "transportation projects"?
Fuel taxes are for roads, not transit systems.
'Yes We Can!' - Obama '12
But Lets Not! - Thinking Citizens '15
Sacramento is a Globalist controlled criminal shit hole.
The urban areas are gone.
Let them fly the UN Flag... cause that's all it is now.
As for the political hicks bad mouthing all Californians you might consider there are over 40 million people here. Even with the illegals and the brain damaged communists/democrats there are still millions more good people, decent Americans, than practically any other state... and that's a fact.
I agree with you, especially concerning N California but you should also understand the fear that others have. Fourty million people, (a large number of which are tax indoctrinated and more concerned about immigrants then their own impoverished masses) that can by numbers alone destroy surrounding states politically. Another fear that is large numbers of Californian immigrants may spark an armed conflict over the defense of the second ammendment.
Yeah but ya' can beat those hunky 'Pride' parades! Woohoo!
Drivers need to pay a lot more in gas tax so that Californian boy wonder & genius Elon Musk can develop a 'solar powered' 777 jet airliner! Woohoo!
Keep the pension ponzi running.
I appreciate the update on gas taxes. Now that fundamentals and price discovery are unreliable, observing political moves and corruption are of great import when attempting to navigate the future.
Oil will probably not go up until all of the desiring states have raised their gas taxes.
Govt, start your gouging.
Warren 'Tax Me More' Buffets dream for Californians comes true! Woohoo!
Same thing already happened in Iowa, state house quietly raised gas taxes .10 for 'roads'. Funny thing is, the state has had a surplus for years. Come to think of it.. California government is also now claiming a budget surplus. It will NEVER be enough..
I have property in both states, screwed up there..
At least the Iowa voters didn't voluntarily pick their own pockets unlike the Californian's (read; Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles) who actually voted for this gas tax along with most of the other recent new taxes.
My favorite part about the free market is when strangers to a transaction decide you must pay more for a good.
Even though Cali has a litany of downsides, it is truly nice views and weather. Everyone living there should stay, definitely stay.
As much as I love California, after 53 years of it, I am psychologically to the place now where living elsewhere would not bother me at all.
But I feel compelled to stick it out, see if we can horizontalize the problem people behind this goddamn fuckery.
Obviously, ya'll "can" adjudicate with extreme prejudice, it's not a question of ability, but the fact is ya'll "won't." But it's ok: us'all over here aren't doing anything either...
"horizontalize the problem people"
I like that
Re: being ready to leave. CA Legislators recently approved this "Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act" mandatory paid sick leave.
An employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for 30 or more days within a year from the beginning of employment, is entitled to paid sick leave. Employees, including part-time and temporary employees, will earn at least one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked. Accrual begins on the first day of employment or July 1, 2015, whichever is later.
Exceptions: Employees covered by qualifying collective bargaining agreements, In-Home Supportive Services providers, and certain employees of air carriers are not covered by this law.
An employer may limit the amount of paid sick leave an employee can use in one year to 24 hours or three days. Accrued paid sick leave may be carried over to the next year, but it may be capped at 48 hours or six days.
I'm sure this won't compound the competitive disadvantages to California based businesses. /sarc
In Georgia a GOP Governor and legislature just raised the motor fuel tax 20 percent and added a new $5 per night additional motel/hotel room tax for transportation. SC will have a significant price advantage even if it raises its tax.
Mere days after the governor signed the tax increase, the House transportation chairman who rammed it through resigned to become the Director of Transportation Planning at Georgia DOT. He has a BA in Criminal Justice.
Georgia DOT has not gotten clean audit reports in the 4 years since a multibillion accounting fraud .
The tax increase was opposed by most Georgians, who had soundly defeated a regional transportation sales tax just 2 years previously.
I don't want to hear any shit from anyone who lives in California about this gas tax increase! You chose to live there - you voted in your government - live with it and shut up.
Californians are so lucky. They actually got what they voted for.
Before the moonbeam took over the reigns in Sacto, the gas pump indicated 18 cents federal gas tax and 18 cents state gas tax. Once he was in office, the sticker on the pump read 18 cents federal gas tax and 36 CENTS STATE GAS TAX, as it does today. Now he wants another 10 cents??? Moonbeam's the poster boy for tax and spend.
No big deal. The public will just blame the businesses.
Then the lawyers, I mean politicians, can use that animosity as leverage to make more laws.
Why has Federal road funding dried up? Did the printing press break down under the strain?