How is it that every Californian that buys gasoline pays about 74 cents per gallon in gas taxes, yet the roads keep getting worse every year?

Maybe because like so many other taxes, gas taxes are spent on everything but roads? In my opinion, what is diminishing the quality of life in California is the bait and switch nature of every tax increase that is put on the ballot. We are constantly promised one thing only to discover that the money has been hijacked and put into some politician's pet project, or used to shore up deficits in mass transit or union benefits.

We keep voting for politicians who do this to us, so we have no farther to look than in the mirror for who to blame for the poor state of our roads (not to mention our schools!)


Jim Neal
Modesto, Ca
(Formerly Old Mountain View)

Not every road user pays the fuel taxes. It is time to stop subsidizing non-gasoline fueled cars. They tear up the roads as much as any car. And stop the $7500 tax credit for Tesla buyers.

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Too much of our tax dollars goes to building new highways and not enough to repairing the old ones. They've spent over $100 million on new Hwy 101 lanes just in Palo Alto and Mountain View in recent years and traffic is as bad as ever.

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