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Re: California's NEW $4,200 Car Tax PASSED - They'll Track Every Mile You Drive |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Mon Feb 9 09:54:06 2026, in response to Re: California's NEW $4,200 Car Tax PASSED - They'll Track Every Mile You Drive, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Feb 8 23:54:35 2026. Gasoline taxes don't pay for all highway building and maintenance expenses. The gasoline taxes used to pay only for building costs. They don't even cover that now.There has to be some mechanism for paying for maintenance and possible replacement costs. Increased gas mileage and the switch to electric and hybrid vehicles has reduced gasoline tax revenue, while vehicle mileage has increased. In most cases the shortfall has been made up through general revenue. The decreased gasoline tax revenue has placed a greater burden on local taxes. This burden has been met by inadequate maintenance, resulting in bad roads. Some alternative is required to replace the this shortfall. A weight and mileage based tax is would roughly apportion the tax according to the damage the vehicle causes. Finding a cost effective way to collect the tax is a problem. The Oregon tax costs 10% to administer. The state of California levies the heights motor fuel tax in the United States. That is one of the reason why the price of motor fuel in California is more then twice what it is the majority of the other states. The new tax is being levied to aid in the paying down California's more then $1 trillion in debt. Revenues from the tax if used only to pay off debt would do it in 10 years. It is also being levied to tax electric vehicles that do not pay motor fuel tax at all. I would not be surprised that some of the revenue will be siphoned off to pay for the over priced high speed rail to nowhere. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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