One Political Plaza - Home of politics
Home Active Topics Newest Pictures Search Login Register
Main
Jerry Brown's Crumbling Road Show and Legislative Circus
Page 1 of 2 next>
Apr 10, 2017 13:18:47   #
Rivers
 
The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

Democrats just passed the largest gas tax increase in California history. The deal is so bad they needed $1 Billion in payola to buy enough v**es to pass it. And shamefully, only 60 percent of the gas tax collected from SB 1, authored by Democrat Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose), will actually be used for road maintenance and repairs. Environmentalists got plenty of taxpayer-funded payola as well including money for more public t***sit, and for walking and bicycling projects.

SB 1 does nothing to relieve traffic congestion or expand highway lane capacity. If Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown are trying to force California’s middle class out and small businesses, then it’s working.

During a rally Wednesday on the Capitol steps, Gov. Jerry Brown strangely claimed, “This is a fee, a fee for the privilege of driving on our roads that the people pay for, and we’ve got to keep paying for them. Otherwise, they are not going to work for us. It’s just that simple.”

“Tax increases don’t solve the problem,” David Crane wrote in 2015. “In 2012 California v**ers passed a temporary tax increase known as Proposition 30 designed to generate an additional $50 billion in revenue over seven years. But as the math makes clear, all that revenue, and more, is being consumed by increases in retirement, health care and corrections spending.”

A Real Solution

There were alternatives to raising taxes. AB 96i ntroduced by numerous Assembly Republicans, would use existing funding, “including revenues attributable to the sales and use tax on motor vehicles, revenues attributable to automobile and motor vehicle insurance policies from the insurer gross premiums tax, revenues from certain diesel fuel sales and use taxes, revenues from certain vehicle registration fees, and certain miscellaneous State Highway Account revenues,” the bill language says. AB 96 would also require 40 percent of the revenues to be allocated to the Department of T***sportation for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, 40 percent of the revenues to be apportioned by the Controller to cities and counties for road purposes pursuant to a specified formula, and 20 percent to fund projects in the State T***sportation Improvement Program that create measurable reductions in traffic congestion. The bill would require the California T***sportation Commission to adopt performance criteria and metrics for expenditure of certain of these revenues, and would impose various requirements on cities and counties in order to receive apportionments.”

SB 1 is just a s**m perpetrated on California taxpayers.

Here’s the detail of what this tax increase will cost you:

SB 1 will raise the base excise tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon, bringing it to 30 cents. Another variable excise tax will be set at 17 cents.
Diesel fuel and biodiesel will increase the state excise tax 20 cents per gallon from 16 cents to 36 cents a gallon. A diesel-only sales tax which is charged in addition to the state and local sales tax rates, will increase from 1.75 percent to 5.75 percent, going up four percentage points.
Electric car owners will pay a $100 annual fee, after 2020, and only on new electric vehicles.

The package also creates an annual vehicle licensing fee ranging from $25 for cars valued at under $5,000, to $175 for cars worth $60,000 or more.

Republican Senator Sells-Out

Republican Senator Anthony Cannella sold his soul to the devil with the gas tax v**e Thursday, in exchange for $500 million going to his district, and wh**ever promises made to him personally from Gov. Jerry Brown. Cannella, demonstrating how tone deaf he is, posted on Twitter Thursday, “I think I’m going to stay off social media today.”

This betrayal of low-income families, the working poor, middle class and small businesses throughout the state, shows once again just how indifferent so many in the Legislature are to the real world.

Senator Cannella’s public deal “was successful in securing $400 million in funding for a commuter rail line that will connect his district to job centers, and a $100 million investment in an expressway connecting commercial and industrial areas through an integral part of Merced,” his press statement said.

Sen. Jeff Stone posted a probable explanation for Cannella’s betrayal, on Facebook:

All republicans stuck together on one of the highest tax increases in State of California’s history… EXCEPT State Senator Anthony Cannella.

Why? He was reportedly promised a $500 million dollar train in his district to connect to the Bay Area BART system.

What does he do in addition to being a State Senator?

He is a civil engineer that owns a civil engineering firm.

Of course, the train system will need to be designed before built by some firm.

Just sayin…..

The Sausage Making Exposed

“SB 1 represents the largest gas tax increase in California history, at a time when small businesses and working families are painfully struggling to make ends meet,” said Tom Scott, NFIB California State Executive Director. “This tax hits middle-class and lower-income families hardest, while California has the highest poverty rate in the nation. Although we agree there is a dire need to invest in our roads and infrastructure, in a recent survey, 90% of NFIB members said they oppose raising new taxes to do this. Over the last six years, Sacramento has received $36 billion in new tax revenues, but not a single new dollar has been invested in our roads. Governor Brown and Democratic legislative leadership need to fix their budget priorities in order to fix our roads.”

Who This Tax Increase Will Hurt

“A low-wage worker today earns less than a similar worker would a generation ago,” according to the California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project), which says it researches how state policy affects low-and middle-income Californians. “Even as the economy grows, that’s not resulting in an increase of their hourly wages, and so over time the value of their wages has eroded.”

California Budget & Policy Center also says their work “is grounded in the fundamental belief that government should work to improve the lives of the people it serves.”

Accordingly, the CBPC offers these statistics:

Statewide, nearly 6 million people (15.3 percent), including almost 2 million children (21.2 percent), lived in poverty in 2015, based on the US Census Bureau’s official poverty line, which is about $19,000 in annual income for a family of three.

In 11 counties, more than 1 in 5 people lived in poverty in 2015. This includes four counties—Fresno, Imperial, Merced, and Tulare—where more than one-quarter of all residents lived in poverty.

In 21 counties, more than 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in 2015. This includes five counties—Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Yuba—where more than one-third of all children lived in poverty and another eight counties where between one-quarter and one-third of all children lived in poverty.
Sen. Cannella represents the residents of Fresno, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Benito and Stanislaus counties, but apparently has little concern for those living in households earning less then $19,000 annually.

Regroup and Counterattack

Now that the gas tax has been passed, Republicans have a chance to show strength and grit, and push a bill insisting on 1) a forensic accounting of the state’s missing t***sportation and infrastructure funding, and 2) demand quarterly reports on the new t***sportation funding going forward. 3) Republicans can and should require an independent accounting firm perform the forensic accounting, as well as prepare the quarterly reports.

Californians should be repulsed by the lawmakers who v**ed for Senate Bill 1 in exchange for the inevitable cushy high paying appointment on some spurious board or commission, gifted by the Governor and Democrat leadership.

Had SB 1 been a sincere, solid t***sportation bill that funded road and highway repairs and maintenance without raising taxes (again), we would not have witnessed the deal-making and quid-pro-quo (something for something).

“We also cannot ignore how almost exactly one year ago, the same politics in Sacramento rushed the $15 minimum wage hike through the legislature in one week,” Tom Scott with the NFIB said. “However, the 50 cent per hour pay bump minimum wage workers got with SB 3 last year will instantly be erased by the tax increases in SB 1.”

A few Notable Statements From Republicans Who Did Not V**e For SB1

- “California is already spending $419,000 per mile on road construction as opposed to Texas at $177,000, and California has wasted $3.5 billion on less than one mile of High Speed Rail track,” said Sen. Andy Vidak (R-Hanford). “Jacking up gas taxes and registration fees will harm the working poor, unemployed, and struggling middle class families in the Central Valley and frankly it’s just throwing good money after bad. This is a s**m.

- “Asking taxpayers to pay hundreds of dollars a year in more taxes when we’ve not spent one dime more on t***sportation from the general fund in years makes no sense,” said Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Temecula). “We have plenty of money ... we just need to spend it on the right priorities. If we had used the t***sportation money that was supposedly guaranteed under Proposition 42 on actual t***sportation projects, we wouldn’t be have to reach, once again, into the wallets of California families to pay for the mistakes this Legislature and Governor have made by wasting taxpayer dollars on programs we can’t afford,” Stone said.

- “I think about CEQA-driven housing prices, g***n e****y mandates pushing our electricity rates up 50-percent above the national average, and now this bill will jack up the cost of owning and driving a car,” said Sen. Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado).

- Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda), v**ed against SB 1, said his constituents were against higher taxes as proposed by a 2-1 margin.

- One Assembly Democrat, Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield), did not v**e for SB 1. “The families I represent drive too far to jobs that pay too little,” Salas said. For his honor and loyalty to his constituents, fellow Democrats kicked him in the gut. “You sold them out,” Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, a Democrat from San Diego, told him, adding that other Democrats had made the brave decision to support the bill. According to Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, he is expected to side with lawmakers over his constituents.

Vomit-Worthy Statements

“Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), who negotiated the package with Brown and other Senate and Assembly leaders, said the state’s roads have suffered from decades of neglect and must be addressed,” the LA Times reported. “This is a courageous step for many legislators, but you can’t stand on the sidelines and be a naysayer,” De León said. “You can’t say no, no, no, no, no, no to everything.”

“Tonight we did something,” Gov. Brown told reporters. “There’s real money and people can afford it...It helps bring jobs. It helps bring prosperity.” (emphasis mine)

The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

http://canadafreepress.com/article/jerry-browns-crumbling-road-show-and-legislative-circus?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=c5112435a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-c5112435a3-297717381

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 13:34:10   #
peter11937 Loc: NYS
 
Rivers wrote:
The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

Democrats just passed the largest gas tax increase in California history. The deal is so bad they needed $1 Billion in payola to buy enough v**es to pass it. And shamefully, only 60 percent of the gas tax collected from SB 1, authored by Democrat Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose), will actually be used for road maintenance and repairs. Environmentalists got plenty of taxpayer-funded payola as well including money for more public t***sit, and for walking and bicycling projects.

SB 1 does nothing to relieve traffic congestion or expand highway lane capacity. If Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown are trying to force California’s middle class out and small businesses, then it’s working.

During a rally Wednesday on the Capitol steps, Gov. Jerry Brown strangely claimed, “This is a fee, a fee for the privilege of driving on our roads that the people pay for, and we’ve got to keep paying for them. Otherwise, they are not going to work for us. It’s just that simple.”

“Tax increases don’t solve the problem,” David Crane wrote in 2015. “In 2012 California v**ers passed a temporary tax increase known as Proposition 30 designed to generate an additional $50 billion in revenue over seven years. But as the math makes clear, all that revenue, and more, is being consumed by increases in retirement, health care and corrections spending.”

A Real Solution

There were alternatives to raising taxes. AB 96i ntroduced by numerous Assembly Republicans, would use existing funding, “including revenues attributable to the sales and use tax on motor vehicles, revenues attributable to automobile and motor vehicle insurance policies from the insurer gross premiums tax, revenues from certain diesel fuel sales and use taxes, revenues from certain vehicle registration fees, and certain miscellaneous State Highway Account revenues,” the bill language says. AB 96 would also require 40 percent of the revenues to be allocated to the Department of T***sportation for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, 40 percent of the revenues to be apportioned by the Controller to cities and counties for road purposes pursuant to a specified formula, and 20 percent to fund projects in the State T***sportation Improvement Program that create measurable reductions in traffic congestion. The bill would require the California T***sportation Commission to adopt performance criteria and metrics for expenditure of certain of these revenues, and would impose various requirements on cities and counties in order to receive apportionments.”

SB 1 is just a s**m perpetrated on California taxpayers.

Here’s the detail of what this tax increase will cost you:

SB 1 will raise the base excise tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon, bringing it to 30 cents. Another variable excise tax will be set at 17 cents.
Diesel fuel and biodiesel will increase the state excise tax 20 cents per gallon from 16 cents to 36 cents a gallon. A diesel-only sales tax which is charged in addition to the state and local sales tax rates, will increase from 1.75 percent to 5.75 percent, going up four percentage points.
Electric car owners will pay a $100 annual fee, after 2020, and only on new electric vehicles.

The package also creates an annual vehicle licensing fee ranging from $25 for cars valued at under $5,000, to $175 for cars worth $60,000 or more.

Republican Senator Sells-Out

Republican Senator Anthony Cannella sold his soul to the devil with the gas tax v**e Thursday, in exchange for $500 million going to his district, and wh**ever promises made to him personally from Gov. Jerry Brown. Cannella, demonstrating how tone deaf he is, posted on Twitter Thursday, “I think I’m going to stay off social media today.”

This betrayal of low-income families, the working poor, middle class and small businesses throughout the state, shows once again just how indifferent so many in the Legislature are to the real world.

Senator Cannella’s public deal “was successful in securing $400 million in funding for a commuter rail line that will connect his district to job centers, and a $100 million investment in an expressway connecting commercial and industrial areas through an integral part of Merced,” his press statement said.

Sen. Jeff Stone posted a probable explanation for Cannella’s betrayal, on Facebook:

All republicans stuck together on one of the highest tax increases in State of California’s history… EXCEPT State Senator Anthony Cannella.

Why? He was reportedly promised a $500 million dollar train in his district to connect to the Bay Area BART system.

What does he do in addition to being a State Senator?

He is a civil engineer that owns a civil engineering firm.

Of course, the train system will need to be designed before built by some firm.

Just sayin…..

The Sausage Making Exposed

“SB 1 represents the largest gas tax increase in California history, at a time when small businesses and working families are painfully struggling to make ends meet,” said Tom Scott, NFIB California State Executive Director. “This tax hits middle-class and lower-income families hardest, while California has the highest poverty rate in the nation. Although we agree there is a dire need to invest in our roads and infrastructure, in a recent survey, 90% of NFIB members said they oppose raising new taxes to do this. Over the last six years, Sacramento has received $36 billion in new tax revenues, but not a single new dollar has been invested in our roads. Governor Brown and Democratic legislative leadership need to fix their budget priorities in order to fix our roads.”

Who This Tax Increase Will Hurt

“A low-wage worker today earns less than a similar worker would a generation ago,” according to the California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project), which says it researches how state policy affects low-and middle-income Californians. “Even as the economy grows, that’s not resulting in an increase of their hourly wages, and so over time the value of their wages has eroded.”

California Budget & Policy Center also says their work “is grounded in the fundamental belief that government should work to improve the lives of the people it serves.”

Accordingly, the CBPC offers these statistics:

Statewide, nearly 6 million people (15.3 percent), including almost 2 million children (21.2 percent), lived in poverty in 2015, based on the US Census Bureau’s official poverty line, which is about $19,000 in annual income for a family of three.

In 11 counties, more than 1 in 5 people lived in poverty in 2015. This includes four counties—Fresno, Imperial, Merced, and Tulare—where more than one-quarter of all residents lived in poverty.

In 21 counties, more than 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in 2015. This includes five counties—Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Yuba—where more than one-third of all children lived in poverty and another eight counties where between one-quarter and one-third of all children lived in poverty.
Sen. Cannella represents the residents of Fresno, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Benito and Stanislaus counties, but apparently has little concern for those living in households earning less then $19,000 annually.

Regroup and Counterattack

Now that the gas tax has been passed, Republicans have a chance to show strength and grit, and push a bill insisting on 1) a forensic accounting of the state’s missing t***sportation and infrastructure funding, and 2) demand quarterly reports on the new t***sportation funding going forward. 3) Republicans can and should require an independent accounting firm perform the forensic accounting, as well as prepare the quarterly reports.

Californians should be repulsed by the lawmakers who v**ed for Senate Bill 1 in exchange for the inevitable cushy high paying appointment on some spurious board or commission, gifted by the Governor and Democrat leadership.

Had SB 1 been a sincere, solid t***sportation bill that funded road and highway repairs and maintenance without raising taxes (again), we would not have witnessed the deal-making and quid-pro-quo (something for something).

“We also cannot ignore how almost exactly one year ago, the same politics in Sacramento rushed the $15 minimum wage hike through the legislature in one week,” Tom Scott with the NFIB said. “However, the 50 cent per hour pay bump minimum wage workers got with SB 3 last year will instantly be erased by the tax increases in SB 1.”

A few Notable Statements From Republicans Who Did Not V**e For SB1

- “California is already spending $419,000 per mile on road construction as opposed to Texas at $177,000, and California has wasted $3.5 billion on less than one mile of High Speed Rail track,” said Sen. Andy Vidak (R-Hanford). “Jacking up gas taxes and registration fees will harm the working poor, unemployed, and struggling middle class families in the Central Valley and frankly it’s just throwing good money after bad. This is a s**m.

- “Asking taxpayers to pay hundreds of dollars a year in more taxes when we’ve not spent one dime more on t***sportation from the general fund in years makes no sense,” said Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Temecula). “We have plenty of money ... we just need to spend it on the right priorities. If we had used the t***sportation money that was supposedly guaranteed under Proposition 42 on actual t***sportation projects, we wouldn’t be have to reach, once again, into the wallets of California families to pay for the mistakes this Legislature and Governor have made by wasting taxpayer dollars on programs we can’t afford,” Stone said.

- “I think about CEQA-driven housing prices, g***n e****y mandates pushing our electricity rates up 50-percent above the national average, and now this bill will jack up the cost of owning and driving a car,” said Sen. Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado).

- Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda), v**ed against SB 1, said his constituents were against higher taxes as proposed by a 2-1 margin.

- One Assembly Democrat, Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield), did not v**e for SB 1. “The families I represent drive too far to jobs that pay too little,” Salas said. For his honor and loyalty to his constituents, fellow Democrats kicked him in the gut. “You sold them out,” Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, a Democrat from San Diego, told him, adding that other Democrats had made the brave decision to support the bill. According to Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, he is expected to side with lawmakers over his constituents.

Vomit-Worthy Statements

“Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), who negotiated the package with Brown and other Senate and Assembly leaders, said the state’s roads have suffered from decades of neglect and must be addressed,” the LA Times reported. “This is a courageous step for many legislators, but you can’t stand on the sidelines and be a naysayer,” De León said. “You can’t say no, no, no, no, no, no to everything.”

“Tonight we did something,” Gov. Brown told reporters. “There’s real money and people can afford it...It helps bring jobs. It helps bring prosperity.” (emphasis mine)

The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

http://canadafreepress.com/article/jerry-browns-crumbling-road-show-and-legislative-circus?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=c5112435a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-c5112435a3-297717381
b The left must destroy California in order to t*... (show quote)


Trouble is that by the time that CA collapses leaving it a socialist state, only the socialist/c*******ts will still be there and thee will be no workers or jobs available. Income will dry up like waiter on a red hot sk**let. Then , and only then , will the collapse be complete and the authors of the collapse removed from office, physically if necessary, and CA start a decades long period of renewal and freedom.

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 13:52:57   #
jimahrens Loc: California
 
Now they will increase welfare benefits so they can afford gas. On stupidity scale scale of 1-10 this is a 50. Calif. will be bankrupt in 1 year mark my words. Especially when they loose all the Fed Money.
peter11937 wrote:
Trouble is that by the time that CA collapses leaving it a socialist state, only the socialist/c*******ts will still be there and thee will be no workers or jobs available. Income will dry up like waiter on a red hot sk**let. Then , and only then , will the collapse be complete and the authors of the collapse removed from office, physically if necessary, and CA start a decades long period of renewal and freedom.

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 14:09:35   #
JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida
 
Catch 22. Then socialism will destroy California.
Rivers wrote:
The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

Democrats just passed the largest gas tax increase in California history. The deal is so bad they needed $1 Billion in payola to buy enough v**es to pass it. And shamefully, only 60 percent of the gas tax collected from SB 1, authored by Democrat Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose), will actually be used for road maintenance and repairs. Environmentalists got plenty of taxpayer-funded payola as well including money for more public t***sit, and for walking and bicycling projects.

SB 1 does nothing to relieve traffic congestion or expand highway lane capacity. If Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown are trying to force California’s middle class out and small businesses, then it’s working.

During a rally Wednesday on the Capitol steps, Gov. Jerry Brown strangely claimed, “This is a fee, a fee for the privilege of driving on our roads that the people pay for, and we’ve got to keep paying for them. Otherwise, they are not going to work for us. It’s just that simple.”

“Tax increases don’t solve the problem,” David Crane wrote in 2015. “In 2012 California v**ers passed a temporary tax increase known as Proposition 30 designed to generate an additional $50 billion in revenue over seven years. But as the math makes clear, all that revenue, and more, is being consumed by increases in retirement, health care and corrections spending.”

A Real Solution

There were alternatives to raising taxes. AB 96i ntroduced by numerous Assembly Republicans, would use existing funding, “including revenues attributable to the sales and use tax on motor vehicles, revenues attributable to automobile and motor vehicle insurance policies from the insurer gross premiums tax, revenues from certain diesel fuel sales and use taxes, revenues from certain vehicle registration fees, and certain miscellaneous State Highway Account revenues,” the bill language says. AB 96 would also require 40 percent of the revenues to be allocated to the Department of T***sportation for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, 40 percent of the revenues to be apportioned by the Controller to cities and counties for road purposes pursuant to a specified formula, and 20 percent to fund projects in the State T***sportation Improvement Program that create measurable reductions in traffic congestion. The bill would require the California T***sportation Commission to adopt performance criteria and metrics for expenditure of certain of these revenues, and would impose various requirements on cities and counties in order to receive apportionments.”

SB 1 is just a s**m perpetrated on California taxpayers.

Here’s the detail of what this tax increase will cost you:

SB 1 will raise the base excise tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon, bringing it to 30 cents. Another variable excise tax will be set at 17 cents.
Diesel fuel and biodiesel will increase the state excise tax 20 cents per gallon from 16 cents to 36 cents a gallon. A diesel-only sales tax which is charged in addition to the state and local sales tax rates, will increase from 1.75 percent to 5.75 percent, going up four percentage points.
Electric car owners will pay a $100 annual fee, after 2020, and only on new electric vehicles.

The package also creates an annual vehicle licensing fee ranging from $25 for cars valued at under $5,000, to $175 for cars worth $60,000 or more.

Republican Senator Sells-Out

Republican Senator Anthony Cannella sold his soul to the devil with the gas tax v**e Thursday, in exchange for $500 million going to his district, and wh**ever promises made to him personally from Gov. Jerry Brown. Cannella, demonstrating how tone deaf he is, posted on Twitter Thursday, “I think I’m going to stay off social media today.”

This betrayal of low-income families, the working poor, middle class and small businesses throughout the state, shows once again just how indifferent so many in the Legislature are to the real world.

Senator Cannella’s public deal “was successful in securing $400 million in funding for a commuter rail line that will connect his district to job centers, and a $100 million investment in an expressway connecting commercial and industrial areas through an integral part of Merced,” his press statement said.

Sen. Jeff Stone posted a probable explanation for Cannella’s betrayal, on Facebook:

All republicans stuck together on one of the highest tax increases in State of California’s history… EXCEPT State Senator Anthony Cannella.

Why? He was reportedly promised a $500 million dollar train in his district to connect to the Bay Area BART system.

What does he do in addition to being a State Senator?

He is a civil engineer that owns a civil engineering firm.

Of course, the train system will need to be designed before built by some firm.

Just sayin…..

The Sausage Making Exposed

“SB 1 represents the largest gas tax increase in California history, at a time when small businesses and working families are painfully struggling to make ends meet,” said Tom Scott, NFIB California State Executive Director. “This tax hits middle-class and lower-income families hardest, while California has the highest poverty rate in the nation. Although we agree there is a dire need to invest in our roads and infrastructure, in a recent survey, 90% of NFIB members said they oppose raising new taxes to do this. Over the last six years, Sacramento has received $36 billion in new tax revenues, but not a single new dollar has been invested in our roads. Governor Brown and Democratic legislative leadership need to fix their budget priorities in order to fix our roads.”

Who This Tax Increase Will Hurt

“A low-wage worker today earns less than a similar worker would a generation ago,” according to the California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project), which says it researches how state policy affects low-and middle-income Californians. “Even as the economy grows, that’s not resulting in an increase of their hourly wages, and so over time the value of their wages has eroded.”

California Budget & Policy Center also says their work “is grounded in the fundamental belief that government should work to improve the lives of the people it serves.”

Accordingly, the CBPC offers these statistics:

Statewide, nearly 6 million people (15.3 percent), including almost 2 million children (21.2 percent), lived in poverty in 2015, based on the US Census Bureau’s official poverty line, which is about $19,000 in annual income for a family of three.

In 11 counties, more than 1 in 5 people lived in poverty in 2015. This includes four counties—Fresno, Imperial, Merced, and Tulare—where more than one-quarter of all residents lived in poverty.

In 21 counties, more than 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in 2015. This includes five counties—Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Yuba—where more than one-third of all children lived in poverty and another eight counties where between one-quarter and one-third of all children lived in poverty.
Sen. Cannella represents the residents of Fresno, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Benito and Stanislaus counties, but apparently has little concern for those living in households earning less then $19,000 annually.

Regroup and Counterattack

Now that the gas tax has been passed, Republicans have a chance to show strength and grit, and push a bill insisting on 1) a forensic accounting of the state’s missing t***sportation and infrastructure funding, and 2) demand quarterly reports on the new t***sportation funding going forward. 3) Republicans can and should require an independent accounting firm perform the forensic accounting, as well as prepare the quarterly reports.

Californians should be repulsed by the lawmakers who v**ed for Senate Bill 1 in exchange for the inevitable cushy high paying appointment on some spurious board or commission, gifted by the Governor and Democrat leadership.

Had SB 1 been a sincere, solid t***sportation bill that funded road and highway repairs and maintenance without raising taxes (again), we would not have witnessed the deal-making and quid-pro-quo (something for something).

“We also cannot ignore how almost exactly one year ago, the same politics in Sacramento rushed the $15 minimum wage hike through the legislature in one week,” Tom Scott with the NFIB said. “However, the 50 cent per hour pay bump minimum wage workers got with SB 3 last year will instantly be erased by the tax increases in SB 1.”

A few Notable Statements From Republicans Who Did Not V**e For SB1

- “California is already spending $419,000 per mile on road construction as opposed to Texas at $177,000, and California has wasted $3.5 billion on less than one mile of High Speed Rail track,” said Sen. Andy Vidak (R-Hanford). “Jacking up gas taxes and registration fees will harm the working poor, unemployed, and struggling middle class families in the Central Valley and frankly it’s just throwing good money after bad. This is a s**m.

- “Asking taxpayers to pay hundreds of dollars a year in more taxes when we’ve not spent one dime more on t***sportation from the general fund in years makes no sense,” said Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Temecula). “We have plenty of money ... we just need to spend it on the right priorities. If we had used the t***sportation money that was supposedly guaranteed under Proposition 42 on actual t***sportation projects, we wouldn’t be have to reach, once again, into the wallets of California families to pay for the mistakes this Legislature and Governor have made by wasting taxpayer dollars on programs we can’t afford,” Stone said.

- “I think about CEQA-driven housing prices, g***n e****y mandates pushing our electricity rates up 50-percent above the national average, and now this bill will jack up the cost of owning and driving a car,” said Sen. Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado).

- Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda), v**ed against SB 1, said his constituents were against higher taxes as proposed by a 2-1 margin.

- One Assembly Democrat, Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield), did not v**e for SB 1. “The families I represent drive too far to jobs that pay too little,” Salas said. For his honor and loyalty to his constituents, fellow Democrats kicked him in the gut. “You sold them out,” Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, a Democrat from San Diego, told him, adding that other Democrats had made the brave decision to support the bill. According to Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, he is expected to side with lawmakers over his constituents.

Vomit-Worthy Statements

“Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), who negotiated the package with Brown and other Senate and Assembly leaders, said the state’s roads have suffered from decades of neglect and must be addressed,” the LA Times reported. “This is a courageous step for many legislators, but you can’t stand on the sidelines and be a naysayer,” De León said. “You can’t say no, no, no, no, no, no to everything.”

“Tonight we did something,” Gov. Brown told reporters. “There’s real money and people can afford it...It helps bring jobs. It helps bring prosperity.” (emphasis mine)

The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

http://canadafreepress.com/article/jerry-browns-crumbling-road-show-and-legislative-circus?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=c5112435a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-c5112435a3-297717381
b The left must destroy California in order to t*... (show quote)

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 14:37:46   #
robmull Loc: florida
 
Rivers wrote:
The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

Democrats just passed the largest gas tax increase in California history. The deal is so bad they needed $1 Billion in payola to buy enough v**es to pass it. And shamefully, only 60 percent of the gas tax collected from SB 1, authored by Democrat Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose), will actually be used for road maintenance and repairs. Environmentalists got plenty of taxpayer-funded payola as well including money for more public t***sit, and for walking and bicycling projects.

SB 1 does nothing to relieve traffic congestion or expand highway lane capacity. If Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown are trying to force California’s middle class out and small businesses, then it’s working.

During a rally Wednesday on the Capitol steps, Gov. Jerry Brown strangely claimed, “This is a fee, a fee for the privilege of driving on our roads that the people pay for, and we’ve got to keep paying for them. Otherwise, they are not going to work for us. It’s just that simple.”

“Tax increases don’t solve the problem,” David Crane wrote in 2015. “In 2012 California v**ers passed a temporary tax increase known as Proposition 30 designed to generate an additional $50 billion in revenue over seven years. But as the math makes clear, all that revenue, and more, is being consumed by increases in retirement, health care and corrections spending.”

A Real Solution

There were alternatives to raising taxes. AB 96i ntroduced by numerous Assembly Republicans, would use existing funding, “including revenues attributable to the sales and use tax on motor vehicles, revenues attributable to automobile and motor vehicle insurance policies from the insurer gross premiums tax, revenues from certain diesel fuel sales and use taxes, revenues from certain vehicle registration fees, and certain miscellaneous State Highway Account revenues,” the bill language says. AB 96 would also require 40 percent of the revenues to be allocated to the Department of T***sportation for maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, 40 percent of the revenues to be apportioned by the Controller to cities and counties for road purposes pursuant to a specified formula, and 20 percent to fund projects in the State T***sportation Improvement Program that create measurable reductions in traffic congestion. The bill would require the California T***sportation Commission to adopt performance criteria and metrics for expenditure of certain of these revenues, and would impose various requirements on cities and counties in order to receive apportionments.”

SB 1 is just a s**m perpetrated on California taxpayers.

Here’s the detail of what this tax increase will cost you:

SB 1 will raise the base excise tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon, bringing it to 30 cents. Another variable excise tax will be set at 17 cents.
Diesel fuel and biodiesel will increase the state excise tax 20 cents per gallon from 16 cents to 36 cents a gallon. A diesel-only sales tax which is charged in addition to the state and local sales tax rates, will increase from 1.75 percent to 5.75 percent, going up four percentage points.
Electric car owners will pay a $100 annual fee, after 2020, and only on new electric vehicles.

The package also creates an annual vehicle licensing fee ranging from $25 for cars valued at under $5,000, to $175 for cars worth $60,000 or more.

Republican Senator Sells-Out

Republican Senator Anthony Cannella sold his soul to the devil with the gas tax v**e Thursday, in exchange for $500 million going to his district, and wh**ever promises made to him personally from Gov. Jerry Brown. Cannella, demonstrating how tone deaf he is, posted on Twitter Thursday, “I think I’m going to stay off social media today.”

This betrayal of low-income families, the working poor, middle class and small businesses throughout the state, shows once again just how indifferent so many in the Legislature are to the real world.

Senator Cannella’s public deal “was successful in securing $400 million in funding for a commuter rail line that will connect his district to job centers, and a $100 million investment in an expressway connecting commercial and industrial areas through an integral part of Merced,” his press statement said.

Sen. Jeff Stone posted a probable explanation for Cannella’s betrayal, on Facebook:

All republicans stuck together on one of the highest tax increases in State of California’s history… EXCEPT State Senator Anthony Cannella.

Why? He was reportedly promised a $500 million dollar train in his district to connect to the Bay Area BART system.

What does he do in addition to being a State Senator?

He is a civil engineer that owns a civil engineering firm.

Of course, the train system will need to be designed before built by some firm.

Just sayin…..

The Sausage Making Exposed

“SB 1 represents the largest gas tax increase in California history, at a time when small businesses and working families are painfully struggling to make ends meet,” said Tom Scott, NFIB California State Executive Director. “This tax hits middle-class and lower-income families hardest, while California has the highest poverty rate in the nation. Although we agree there is a dire need to invest in our roads and infrastructure, in a recent survey, 90% of NFIB members said they oppose raising new taxes to do this. Over the last six years, Sacramento has received $36 billion in new tax revenues, but not a single new dollar has been invested in our roads. Governor Brown and Democratic legislative leadership need to fix their budget priorities in order to fix our roads.”

Who This Tax Increase Will Hurt

“A low-wage worker today earns less than a similar worker would a generation ago,” according to the California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project), which says it researches how state policy affects low-and middle-income Californians. “Even as the economy grows, that’s not resulting in an increase of their hourly wages, and so over time the value of their wages has eroded.”

California Budget & Policy Center also says their work “is grounded in the fundamental belief that government should work to improve the lives of the people it serves.”

Accordingly, the CBPC offers these statistics:

Statewide, nearly 6 million people (15.3 percent), including almost 2 million children (21.2 percent), lived in poverty in 2015, based on the US Census Bureau’s official poverty line, which is about $19,000 in annual income for a family of three.

In 11 counties, more than 1 in 5 people lived in poverty in 2015. This includes four counties—Fresno, Imperial, Merced, and Tulare—where more than one-quarter of all residents lived in poverty.

In 21 counties, more than 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in 2015. This includes five counties—Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Yuba—where more than one-third of all children lived in poverty and another eight counties where between one-quarter and one-third of all children lived in poverty.
Sen. Cannella represents the residents of Fresno, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Benito and Stanislaus counties, but apparently has little concern for those living in households earning less then $19,000 annually.

Regroup and Counterattack

Now that the gas tax has been passed, Republicans have a chance to show strength and grit, and push a bill insisting on 1) a forensic accounting of the state’s missing t***sportation and infrastructure funding, and 2) demand quarterly reports on the new t***sportation funding going forward. 3) Republicans can and should require an independent accounting firm perform the forensic accounting, as well as prepare the quarterly reports.

Californians should be repulsed by the lawmakers who v**ed for Senate Bill 1 in exchange for the inevitable cushy high paying appointment on some spurious board or commission, gifted by the Governor and Democrat leadership.

Had SB 1 been a sincere, solid t***sportation bill that funded road and highway repairs and maintenance without raising taxes (again), we would not have witnessed the deal-making and quid-pro-quo (something for something).

“We also cannot ignore how almost exactly one year ago, the same politics in Sacramento rushed the $15 minimum wage hike through the legislature in one week,” Tom Scott with the NFIB said. “However, the 50 cent per hour pay bump minimum wage workers got with SB 3 last year will instantly be erased by the tax increases in SB 1.”

A few Notable Statements From Republicans Who Did Not V**e For SB1

- “California is already spending $419,000 per mile on road construction as opposed to Texas at $177,000, and California has wasted $3.5 billion on less than one mile of High Speed Rail track,” said Sen. Andy Vidak (R-Hanford). “Jacking up gas taxes and registration fees will harm the working poor, unemployed, and struggling middle class families in the Central Valley and frankly it’s just throwing good money after bad. This is a s**m.

- “Asking taxpayers to pay hundreds of dollars a year in more taxes when we’ve not spent one dime more on t***sportation from the general fund in years makes no sense,” said Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Temecula). “We have plenty of money ... we just need to spend it on the right priorities. If we had used the t***sportation money that was supposedly guaranteed under Proposition 42 on actual t***sportation projects, we wouldn’t be have to reach, once again, into the wallets of California families to pay for the mistakes this Legislature and Governor have made by wasting taxpayer dollars on programs we can’t afford,” Stone said.

- “I think about CEQA-driven housing prices, g***n e****y mandates pushing our electricity rates up 50-percent above the national average, and now this bill will jack up the cost of owning and driving a car,” said Sen. Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado).

- Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda), v**ed against SB 1, said his constituents were against higher taxes as proposed by a 2-1 margin.

- One Assembly Democrat, Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield), did not v**e for SB 1. “The families I represent drive too far to jobs that pay too little,” Salas said. For his honor and loyalty to his constituents, fellow Democrats kicked him in the gut. “You sold them out,” Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, a Democrat from San Diego, told him, adding that other Democrats had made the brave decision to support the bill. According to Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher, he is expected to side with lawmakers over his constituents.

Vomit-Worthy Statements

“Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), who negotiated the package with Brown and other Senate and Assembly leaders, said the state’s roads have suffered from decades of neglect and must be addressed,” the LA Times reported. “This is a courageous step for many legislators, but you can’t stand on the sidelines and be a naysayer,” De León said. “You can’t say no, no, no, no, no, no to everything.”

“Tonight we did something,” Gov. Brown told reporters. “There’s real money and people can afford it...It helps bring jobs. It helps bring prosperity.” (emphasis mine)

The left must destroy California in order to t***sform her into a socialist state.

http://canadafreepress.com/article/jerry-browns-crumbling-road-show-and-legislative-circus?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=c5112435a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-c5112435a3-297717381
b The left must destroy California in order to t*... (show quote)










This is exactly how the Marxist (D)emonrats have been plotting, 24/7/365, to "Bring "Imperialist" America to her Knees," for 120 years. And they were sooooooooooo close. The exclusive hotel on the Hudson River with a glass ceiling had been rented, expensive champagne flowing by the gallon, fireworks ordered by the ton, teary-eyed "red-(D)aiper babies" (D), from wall-to-wall, cheery celebratory gazes at the "alphabet" channel pundits explain how "THE DONALD" (R), "even if he got ALL the..." wh**ever, wherever, "he would lose," and just a few more hours for the eminent 2016 POTUS LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR HILLARY {BHO in "(D)rag"}. Hummmmmmmmmm. Oh, bad luck, Cynthia!!! The same thing is now happening in CA with the "Brown's" (D), and Nieto's (D), and Grijalva's (D), and the la-Raza's (D), and Belerra's (D), and all the firm and unforgiving "anti-Trumpsters" (D), anti-Americans (D), anti-conservatives (D), anti-Republicans (D), MB (D), CPUSA (D), SPUSA (D), MSM (D), al-Fuqra (D), Islamic Jihad (D), Hamas (D), etc., in America, are being invaded by "WE THE PEOPLE" (R), and tearing all the sanctuary city contracts to-pieces. Socialism is now being as "crushed," as was the head of the "Beast," electively (D)ecapitated. Hell, {sanctuary city} Belerra (D), was followed by conservative, patriotic, constitutionalist Americans to a plea in Toronto, Canada, to support sanctuary cities in America, and was shouted-down. Interesting. I saw the video, and it's happening all over-the-world. Humanity, in general, is rooting for our Shining Light on the Hill," and those who aren't, are on the (D)ark side!!! No ifs ands or buts!!! Hummmmmmmm. What IS that "crushing" noise I keep hearing??? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH; GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CONSERVATIVE SHERIFFS JOE ARPAIO AND DAVID CLARKE; GOOOOOOOOO REP. TREY GOWDY (R); GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! And, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PRESIDENT "45" DONALD J. TRUMP (R); JUST LIKE THE WEATHER!!! "(D)RAIN....!!!"

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 14:48:06   #
moldyoldy
 
These are the top 10 most successful states in America based on the GOBankingRates’ report.
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Washington, D.C.
California
Alaska
North Dakota
Virginia
In stark contrast to the success and wealth enjoyed by many residents in America’s most successful states, the following states earned the dubious distinction of being the five least successful states in the U.S.:
Mississippi
New Mexico
West Virginia
Arkansas
Kentucky

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/americas-most-and-least-successful-states/

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 14:55:44   #
S. Maturin
 
California is the perfect modern example of Ouroboros.

I have friends who live in that state and they are making plans to sell and move.

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 15:05:08   #
peter11937 Loc: NYS
 
moldyoldy wrote:
These are the top 10 most successful states in America based on the GOBankingRates’ report.
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Washington, D.C.
California
Alaska
North Dakota
Virginia
In stark contrast to the success and wealth enjoyed by many residents in America’s most successful states, the following states earned the dubious distinction of being the five least successful states in the U.S.:
Mississippi
New Mexico
West Virginia
Arkansas
Kentucky

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/americas-most-and-least-successful-states/
These are the top 10 most successful states in Ame... (show quote)



Is it any wonder banks are making new bad loans these days? Somehow anyone reading this list and actually believing it is fact could be a hurting puppy financially very soon.

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 16:17:25   #
S. Maturin
 
peter11937 wrote:
Is it any wonder banks are making new bad loans these days? Somehow anyone reading this list and actually believing it is fact could be a hurting puppy financially very soon.


One of California's highest achievements is using tax money to have g****r-change operations performed on prisoners serving life sentences.

Perfect.

Reply
Apr 10, 2017 18:17:42   #
moldyoldy
 
Kansas is your GOP utopia, move there and starve.

Reply
Apr 11, 2017 21:56:52   #
Freedomcalls
 
Here you are dumbass talking s*** you don't know about. I lived in Kansas most of my life I never starved dumbass. I always had work and raised my 4 kids, there's always employment food Medical and housing. I moved to Missouri 3 years ago after Vietnam and Korea 69 I come home. I'am mostly in construction and general contractor military. One thing about Kansas is if you want to work we will put you to work.

Reply
Apr 12, 2017 00:16:49   #
moldyoldy
 
Freedomcalls wrote:
Here you are dumbass talking s*** you don't know about. I lived in Kansas most of my life I never starved dumbass. I always had work and raised my 4 kids, there's always employment food Medical and housing. I moved to Missouri 3 years ago after Vietnam and Korea 69 I come home. I'am mostly in construction and general contractor military. One thing about Kansas is if you want to work we will put you to work.







The Kansas economy ranks 46th in the nation among all states and the District of Columbia, according to a March report.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article69776282.html#storylink=cpy



http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-kansas-a-smoking-ruin-20140709-column.html

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/sam-brownback-kansas-tax-cuts-trickle-down

Reply
Apr 12, 2017 04:54:51   #
S. Maturin
 


Freedomcalls probably does not know you only speak unt***hs in hyperbole.

The quality of life of state's residents is affected by avg. income... but that is not the only factor.

In terms you'd maybe understand: I'd rather be almost "poor" in KS than "above avg" income in Chicago. Get it?

Reply
Apr 12, 2017 10:29:29   #
Freedomcalls
 
Ty maturin now i do know abt him. Moldy in 10 mos. Wife and made 698 tousand contracting in this poor poor state. Like I said if you want to work that's the key work you will find a job here, rent is still moderate, 150 to 300 a month in communities not cities. You still go by a handshake and first name for credit check at bank. Anyway you seem to know it all I don't think you would fit in in my state you would probably be tar and feathered and not giving a token federal job.

Reply
Apr 12, 2017 13:47:02   #
S. Maturin
 
Freedomcalls wrote:
Ty maturin now i do know abt him. Moldy in 10 mos. Wife and made 698 tousand contracting in this poor poor state. Like I said if you want to work that's the key work you will find a job here, rent is still moderate, 150 to 300 a month in communities not cities. You still go by a handshake and first name for credit check at bank. Anyway you seem to know it all I don't think you would fit in in my state you would probably be tar and feathered and not giving a token federal job.


Me?

Or moldy?

Eh, what?

Reply
Page 1 of 2 next>
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.
Main
OnePoliticalPlaza.com - Forum
Copyright 2012-2024 IDF International Technologies, Inc.