Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi.
When California Gov. Jerry Brown was defending SB 1—last year’s transportation funding package, which included $5.4 billion in annual gas tax and vehicle registration fee increases—he had an uncharitable term for his opponents: freeloaders.
“The freeloaders—I’ve had enough of them,” he said at an Orange County event. “Roads require money to fix.” The state was strapped for cash, he argued; drivers needed to pay up, lest the roads and highways devolve into gravel paths.
That argument didn’t carry much water then, given that Golden State motorists were already paying some of the highest gas taxes in the nation. It certainly doesn’t carry much water now that we have a firmer picture of where this new money is going.
On Thursday, the state’s Transportation Agency announced grant recipients for some $2.6 billion of the transit funding raised by SB 1. The awards include $28.6 million for 40 zero-emission buses in Anaheim and $40.5 million for light-rail vehicles in Sacramento. Los Angeles snagged $330 million to build out its rail transit network in preparation for the 2028 Olympics.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Maybe they should spend some of their millions on desalination instead of their pet illegals.
Jerry flush it down Brown is the worst thing that could have happened to California. He preached to us about wasting water, but in the last 8 years he’s made no attempt to build water reservoirs, so all fresh rain water runs right out to the ocean!! He wants to spend millions if not billions of dollars on a high speed rail system no one wants, and he wants to pay for it by increasing our taxes. When we complained about it he called us freeloaders. Gavin Newsom is Jerry Browns evil twin and we can not let him become our next Governor. We must come togeather as Californians and get the swamp out of Sacramento. You Democrats out there better think real hard about who your voting for. Forget about liberals and conservatives, we need someone who’s agenda is to make California what it once was, a great state!!!
The brown clown calls us freeloaders?? Since the year 2000, the Sacramento demo-rat have misappropriated over $20 BILLION dollars that should have gone to desperately needed water projects but, through “Creative” financing went instead, to fund the $21 BILLION a year 5 MILLION ILLEGAL aliens cost the ever fewer California taxpayers, and of course, ever more welfare.
That’s why California has the largest number of homeless, the highest poverty rate and the lowest educational test scores.
Worthless politicians are elected by citizens who don’t bother to vote.
People receive the government they earned either through apostasy; apathy; or indifference.
The best way to destroy a civilization is to give it too much wherein lazy thinking and immoral
laxity prevails. There is truly nothing new under the sun. Time and time again mankind ends up
doing the same unsuccessful things over and over again each time expecting different results.
A couple of quotes from Plato of 435 BC that covers demo-rat politicians especially in California.
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Also by Plato
Midterms are coming up and the brown clown is termed out, finally gone. As somebody already pointed out, newsom is a clone brown and so are most of the others. Consider Travis Allen who is trying to get a recall of the gas tax bill.
Worthless politicians are elected by citizens who don’t bother to vote.
I lived in California for 30 years until 2 years ago I can say that my wife and I voted against the crazy train and tried to do our part to reign in spending and elect reasonable politicians and not the free spending crew in power but we failed and the free spenders are going wild they never met someone else’s dollar that they did not love to spend