California adds 12 cent gas tax and 20 cent diesel tax

D.E.Bishop wrote:
Okay, I have hopefully a short reply, in the seventies we elected a governor that appointed Rose Bird to the CSC, she felt 7 years was okay for a sentence for 1st Degree Murder, he also appointed Adriana Giantturkey(pun) as Director of the DOT. MS Bird was dumped by the public and her Dictatorship left our jails with a major reduction in funding, The Giantturkey cancelled all highway improvements and repairs and donated all the money to the general fund. Additionally we passed Prop 13 that restricted the increases in property taxes and required some very strict laws on new taxes.

The result of these three things was that the State was stuck paying more for everyday living expenses for some and increasing as Liberals do, their social welfare programs by reducing money sent to schools, highways, etc, and sending it to the General Fund for more social welfare programs.

Thanks to Gov. Moonbeam all those things happened, now he is Gov. Brown and a down to earth realistic Gov. Another pun but not intended.

Supposedly he has grown up and now realizes how expensive infrastructure is and is willy nilly raising taxes, but by law 80 percent of the new tax must go to highway works and only 20 percent can go to his legacy. Another new law that takes effect I believe in 2018 prohibits spending any tax money for any purpose other than contained in the definition of the bill. It was part of his trade off and buying of the votes he needed for his Legacy Bill or Gas Tax increases. To which those of us on the right say, "Good Luck with that".

This is just what has and is happening here and I guess it is what we have to put up with to live here.

Nothing will ever top the high speed rail boondoggle between LA and San Francisco. It has already gone billions over budget and the three biggest hurdles haven't been addressed. Some rocket scientist decided the best place to start construction was at the middle, somewhere near Bakersfield. Unfortunately, after you complete that flat part of the tracks, they have to bore the largest tunnel ever conceived thru the Sierra Nevada mountains. Nobody is even sure if it can be done, much less how much it is going to cost and they are already out of money, so it really doesn't matter. Apparent solution? The money fairy will swoop in and save the day and the construction fairy then waive it's magic wand and viola, a hole will appear in the mountains.
Then there is the minor problem of the fact they haven't bought the land needed at either end of the rail line. The LA land and the San Francisco land still needs to be obtained. Again, no one knows how much this will cost, how long it will take, or if it can even be accomplished. Apparent solution? A second visit from the money fairy and after dumping truckloads of money into the arms of the landowners a rail line will link LA and San Francisco.
And the best news? The current estimates are the trip will take longer and be more expensive than flying. But hey, it's a high speed train, and if you don't want a train, you apparently need a brain. Got to love it.