Thursday, June 4, 2015

No, these gas taxes will be Obamacare taxes

California will use the money for other causes, not road building. The Floundering legislature will spend according to its priorities, and road building is low on its priority list.
Hill: California is considering increasing the amount of money drivers in their state will have to pay at the pump to help pay for transportation projects as federal road funding dries up.
Legislation has been in introduced in the California state Senate that would increase the state’s approximately 47 cents-per-gallon gas tax by 10 cents.
The new California fuel levy, which would be the state's first increase since 1994, will be collected on top of an 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax that is charged to all drivers in the nation to fill the federal government’s transportation funding coffers.
The American Petroleum Institute says the gas tax increase will bring the total amount of money that drivers in California are charged at the pump to more than 75 cents per gallon. The state is the latest to consider increasing its gas tax in recent years as federal transportation funding has dried up.

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