I embrace an increase in the gas tax as good environmental public policy, but I'm under no illusion that the money will be used for transportation improvements. At best, it will backfill for funds diverted to public employee overtime abuse and spiked pensions. Whatever money is spent on physical "transportation improvements" will be used to narrow and eliminate lanes, bulb out intersections, and convert productive farmland into never-to-be-used high speed rail tracks between Chowchilla and Corcoran.

Yeah. Make a deal to tax the little guys, wreck the environment and make the rich richer.

Those that embrace the tax hike can pay it. I did not approve of it and as a citizen find it appalling since the people were not asked. Lets put together a law through signatures to revert this travesty and send a clear message to our politicians that we want our taxes reduced and not increased. Is time for a citizens revolt. Read my lips, no new taxes.

Hope this helps get all those wasteful, unnecessary SUVs and vans off the road. They don't meet Federal vehicle standards anyway because supposedly they're "service vehicles". Yeah, right.

The existing gas tax/vehicle fee cover nowhere near the cost of road maintenance. Way overdue for an inflation adjustment

Those who think the taxes will have any effect whatsoever on the roads getting repaired are the same useful fools who continue to vote for the people who passed this in the first place.

Remember the "stimulus" that Obama claimed would provide "shovel-ready" jobs and improve the infrastructure? All that happened is repairs on roads that didn't need them and the ones that DID need work were ignored. Money was funneled to those with the most to offer those in DC. Why would you think this money would be spent on anything other than filling the pockets of government pensioners and continuing to push the HSR moneypit that Brown will back until he's gone?

Just as with education, Californians pay exorbitant amounts of taxes to finance these programs and end up with the lousiest results in the nation. Maybe you should consider that before you support yet another of these ignorant plans backed by Brown and his pack of sycophants.

I for one would like to know where all the gas tax money has been going, not to roads that's for certain. I suspect it has been going to environmentally correct areas like ferry boats, bike lanes and trains to nowhere and not to roads. Having the term accountability in the name is a tip off that it is just another scam.

12 cents for regular and 20 cents for diesel. That means all of our retail costs will go up, since trucks deliver those items to the stores. Cost of food will go up, eggs, milk, etc.....

This will surely hurt the poor and those on fixed incomes the most.

Everything is going up except for salaries, unless you have a union city job.

This has pushed me over the edge. I'm heading out to buy myself an all EV - just not a Tesla to avoid the new gas tax.

EV's get taxed on registration which is appropriate as they use roads too! Dig deep into the missing parts of this story. This is California policy at its best. It may be the largest back closet pork barrel in the dark deal to date. A few 500M pet projects awarded to some for votes at the expense of the people. Yes, we need better roads but I don't get how every neighboring state has better roads and California has the 6th largest economy in the world. Maybe we should farm maintenance to India and fire all legislators and hire some bean counters to properly manage a budget.

More of the same, and how quickly most forget... Lottery, its for the schools ya know. Tax increase after tax increase on small businesses to the point that they can barely afford to operate. This special "Fee" to help make this and that better.... its all the same from the same group of people that are voted back into office by the very people that get screwed the most...

Utah, here we come!

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