Showing posts with label Vehicle Registration Fees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vehicle Registration Fees. Show all posts

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Not only has California's punitive tax program driven away many wealthy residents, it also has discouraged wealthy people from moving here.

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Monday, November 6, 2017

What have they been doing with the billions and billions of dollars we've already provided them that they've diverted to other purposes?






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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Join the Campaign to Repeal the Car Tax StopTheCarTax.org



With virtually no notice to the public, Democratic politicians in the California State Legislature crammed through a massive hike to the Car Tax and Gax Tax.

Fortunately, former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio has unveiled a strategy for getting citizens involved in overturning these tax hikes! More on that in a bit, but first you need to understand how these tax hikes will cost YOU!

Car Tax: Pay More, Get Less!

Depending on the value of your car, miles driven, and your MPG, the typical California family will end up paying $350-700 more per year under the Car Tax and Gas Tax hike!

SIGN THE PETITION!
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Friday, May 12, 2017

HAPPENING TODAY - We launch phase 1 of the campaign against the Car Tax hike - ending the Dems Super-Majority



A grassroots coalition led by former San Diego City Councilman and current KOGO radio host Carl DeMaio DeMaio and KFI radio hosts John and Ken is kicking off a massive voter signature collection effort this week as part of a campaign to roll back the recent Car and Gas Tax hike enacted by Sacramento politicians. (Event details below)

The campaign is using what it calls the “Gazelle Strategy” to stop the tax hikes because the campaign strategically targets weak state legislators who voted for the taxes to recall them one-by-one and coordinates grassroots activists and funding from around the state to be successful in each individual recall. The campaign is working in three stages:

  • Phase 1 – End Super-Majority: Recall from office State Senator Josh Newman (D) who cast the deciding vote for the tax hikes – a move that would end the Super-Majority of the Democrats to raise taxes.
  • Phase 2 – Roll Back the Taxes: Give the legislature 30 days to rescind the car and gas tax or file additional Recall Initiatives against 3-5 additional State Senators who are deemed vulnerable.
  • Phase 3 – Fix the Roads: Pass a state-wide ballot initiative in 2018 to impose accountability on transportation funds and fix roads without a tax hike.
  • Phase 1 of the campaign commenced today when the California Secretary of State formally informed the campaign that it could legally begin collecting the roughly 63,000 signatures it needs to recall Newman from office....








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Monday, April 17, 2017

Have Sacramento Democrats ever met a tax they don't like? Shame.





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Sacramento has hidden a provision in the gas tax to divert the money from roads.





Our political elites are learning that taxes on cars and gasoline remain very unpopular because they fall disproportionately on the working Californians — which is where the majority of voters reside. And the resentment might only grow when the taxes actually kick in....

...it is now clear that ACA5 is just another smokescreen that will allow the new tax hike dollars to go to all sorts of things other than roads and highways.

While ACA5 claims to protect the new tax revenue, it is evident from even a cursory reading of the language that this is not the case. While one provision seems to restrict the revenue from being diverted, another provision provides an exception based on statutory law “as those sections read on January 1st, 2018.” That’s right. An exception to the restriction is based on a law that can be amended before January 1st, 2018.

So there you have it. Before the ink is even dry on the bill imposing the transportation taxes, the tax-and-spend Legislature has created a situation whereby the money could, as it has several times in the past, be diverted to the general fund to be spent on pensions, government salaries, welfare, the bullet train or who knows what.

(Note: you can meet author Jon Coupal at the Republican Of The Year Dinner on May 6th, where he'll be our keynote speaker. Invitations are in the mail. See details ◼ HERE.)

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Friday, April 7, 2017

California Senate has just passed the largest gas tax hike in CA's history. A blow to drivers w/ low to moderate incomes:



Senator Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) issued the following statement after the California State Senate approved Senate Bill 1, which would raise $52 billion in taxes over the next 10 years to repair California’s roads and highways.

“Californians with low to moderate incomes are the big losers of this deal as it raises the gas tax by 70 percent and increases the average cost of registering a car by 25 percent. The big winners are high-speed rail whose funding remains untouched and bureaucrats who want more money without real accountability. It is appalling that 30 percent of the new taxes will not even be used for road repairs.

“This plan includes the largest gas tax increase in California’s history – a $5.2 billion annual tax increase that grows over time and never ends. It is another step in the wrong direction to make California more affordable for working families. Today’s vote is a sobering reminder that elections have consequences.”

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Monday, June 1, 2015

There's an effort in the Legislature right now to raise gas taxes - despite that California already has some of the nation's highest gas taxes.

◼ More Pain at the Pump - Jon Coupal/Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

Sacramento is about to launch a new attack in its ongoing war on drivers.

California’s 48.6 cent gas tax already ranks second out of 50 states –- the feds take another 18.4 cents — and when the hidden carbon tax, part of the cap-and-trade program, is factored in, our state leads the pack by a wide margin. But this is not nearly enough, according to the political class.

Sen. Jim Beall is building a coalition of both Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature to hike gas taxes along with vehicle license fees and registration.

The San Jose lawmaker’s Senate Bill 16 slams taxpayers in three ways. First, it would raise at least $3 billion annually by increasing the gas tax by another 10 cents a gallon. Second, it would hike the vehicle license fee, which is based on value, by more than 50 percent over 5 years. Third, it would increase the cost to register a vehicle by over 80 percent.

Although the backers of the SB 16 tax increase say it is vital to make up the claimed $59 billion backlog in roadway maintenance, some of the funds are slated to go to repaying transportation bonds that, when passed, were to be paid from the general fund. This means that not all of the new revenue will go to the stated intent of fixing roads and highways.

Whatever the actual dollar amount of the backlog in roadway maintenance, this shortfall is the result of previous diversions of gas tax and truck weight revenue to budget items that have no direct impact on road improvement, and Beall’s bill would allow this practice to continue.

...Gas prices in California are already tops in the nation. If taxes are increased again, every motorist should be given a railroad engineer’s cap compliments of Sacramento lawmakers and the governor because the extra they pay will free up money, which could have been used for roads, to be spent on their pet train. KEEP READING
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