Comments on: Voters surprisingly amenable to taxes

By: Elwood

Elwood — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:38:34 +0000

Kris, can you tell us how much of the tax burden on gas has been stolen by the legislature for other purposes?

By: Kris Hunt

Kris Hunt — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:26:04 +0000

Mr. Hoffman does not recognize all of the additional dollars that vehicles owners are paying. You can’t just look at one tax. First of all, taxpayers pay a great deal toward roads. In Contra Costa for example, we pay an additional 1/2 cent in sales tax for transportation uses. In addition, sales taxes are applied to gasoline sales, so each gallon of gas has a lot more in taxes applied to it.

And let’s not forget those bridge toll increases most of which go to things other than roads even though collected by vehicle drivers.

So let’s not talk about crumbling roads until those dollars quit being diverted from building and repairing them.

By: Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:59:57 +0000

The most urgent CA tax increase is the state gasoline tax, which hasn’t been raised from 18 cents per gallon since the mid-nineties, because of our chicken state legislators.
This is the tax that will go to repair our crumbling road infrastructure.