Tax and Not Spend Democrats

California Governor “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown once declared that California leads the nation. Well, yes, it does. Most of the weird, wacky, political nonsense originates in this state. Take for instance Brown’s latest propaganda, the gas tax necessity.

Are California’s roads in need of repair? Of course they are. The whole nation’s roads are in need of repair. President Eisenhower created this wonderful Interstate transportation system but was a little shortsighted on funding the cost for maintaining it. If you think California’s roads are bad, you should try driving in the Chicago area some time. Repair crews constantly block those roads. They call it a constant state of destruction.

But our roads are not the only poorly maintained infrastructure. Many of our bridges are rated as dangerous too. Should we be taxed – again – for this maintenance, though?

We currently pay 18 cents per-gallon in gasoline taxes. Those taxes are supposed to be earmarked specifically for road maintenance. In addition, we have vehicle license “fees” that are supposed to go into the maintenance fund. In reality, that money is thrown into the general fund and spent on everything from the Bullet Train to nowhere to illegal alien assistance in this sanctuary state. Lord only knows how much is actually spent on road maintenance. I suspect it is in the neighborhood of hundredths of a cent per-dollar.

Now our not-so-illustrious governor and his Demoncrat cronies want to increase the gasoline tax from 18 cents to 30 cents per-gallon. It doesn’t stop there, though. If you drive a diesel, you are now paying 16 cents a gallon but that will go to 36 cents with this new tax. And… that tax will be adjusted annually for the cost of living just to make sure you don’t get a break if you get a COLA increase. Even after paying that extortion, you still aren’t out of the woods. Your vehicle fee will increase anywhere fro $25 to $175 depending on the value of your vehicle. This is on top of the monstrous registration fee increase we saw a couple of years back. And these are PERMANENT increases.

Altogether Governor Moonbeam wants an additional 5.2 billion dollars a year in taxes. What is not being said is that those funds are likely to go into the general fund too!

My question to these tax hungry politicians is, how do we know the money will be spent for road and bridge repair? Wasn’t that what the current gas tax and increased vehicle registration fees were supposed to be used for? What did you do with that money? Now you want more? I say not just no but hell no!

Why not take the billions yet to be spent on Brown’s folly, the bullet train-to-nowhere that no one will ride, and spend it on road repairs? Quit subsidizing illegal aliens in this state and deport them as the law requires. That would save a huge chunk of change. Better yet, spend the existing gas taxes and registration fees on what it is intended. Wow, what a concept!

It is a simple fact of life in our democracy that if you give a politician a dollar he will soon be back for five more… and still not spend it on what he promised.