Those who think raising taxes will work, feel free to pay more taxes. It's on the tax forms.... I'd be willing to bet NONE of those who thinks paying more taxes is clicking that box!
what's the average miles driven? i'll go with 12,000 if a gasser gets 25mpg, thats 480 gallons, check my math. call it 500 gallons at 20 cents fed gas tax per gallon = $100. someone wants to raise that to $1,000.? fine, but show me the road and bridge repair costs and the current gas tax revenue per year.
Let me channel my inner CA Democrat politician... we don’t need a silly spreadsheet to show how much it cost to maintain and repair the roads and bridges. We just feel it’s the right thing to do to preserve out travel infrastructure and keep people safe on the road. Being safe cant it be measured with metrics therefore we must legislature the bill and pass immediately. That’s the usual shpeel when we hear ca politicians speak.
Californians DID to vote to keep the recent gas tax plan. Jerry Brown was the governor at the time e and implemented it. He said if you’re not happy with the new gas tax then vote no on the ballot to end it. When voting season came around, Californians voted to keep the gas tax haha. So every year the gas tax rates raises until its brought to the ballot for no more gas taxes
Good question. The ca politicians wants this program very bad so let me call me local state representative to see if they have piloted the program far enough to implement it on us. I’ll also also tell him, tax me harder daddy.
Noooo, If a person thinks that tax is good, let THEM pay the tax. Not those who are smart enough to know it's wrong and stupid.
how do you get anything done without taxes? it's just a matter of who, what and why. there will never be agreement
Until the early 1900's, tariffs..... you need to study history. And not all taxes are horribly wrong, just too many of them. Back in the late 1980's all the commies were crying we need a lottery to fund schools, pay the teacher/s more money, etc.... you could do away with the taxes to fund schools. Over 35 years later, and they are still crying the same thing, we need more taxes to pay the teacher's more money and pay for more schools. So where did all the millions of dollars go from the lottery?????
It's called sharing the burden of what we have. Did you know you paid for that lamp post just ahead. Does that make you mad? That's how taxes work.
That's not how taxes work. Sharing is caring. We all share the load, right? Well, except for billionaires, and corporations with off shore tax shelters, and mega churches.
The 'commies' and the republicans were on board for the lottery. YOU need to study history. Don't you think we need to pay the teachers a living wage to attract quality teachers? Let me guess, you don't have kids so you shouldn't have to pay a dime for education, right? Typical right wing selfishness... I can answer where some of the money went. Fancy expensive electronic Bill Board signs promoting government gambling. Who thinks that is a good idea? I want all the money to go to education.
the lottery is no different than anything else, except it is voluntary, kinda like the draft there is never enough money for government, that's why we have checks and balances, there has to be some sort of equilibrium
The lottery is a get rich quick scam. Only 1% of the scammee's actually win. So where does the other 99% go? Kickbacks.... and in criminals pockets....
my uncle won a million in the state lottery, then my cousin won a million. i think they rigged it, but can't come up with any proof