Opinion: ‘California Way’ on gas prices is unnecessarily clunky, costly, bureaucratic
California has among the highest gas taxes, at 51.1 cents per gallon, in the country, right? Right.That would help people, right? Right.
States like Georgia and Maryland have already suspended their gas taxes, because it’s not hard to do if the political will and money is there to do it. A recent attempt by Republicans in the Assembly to suspend gas taxes was overwhelmingly rejected. Democrats, it seems, are more interested in turning a problem that could be solved quickly and reasonably into just anotherNewsom wants to waste time and money by calling for $400 debit cards to go out to everyone who has a registered car in the state, with a maximum of two. Oh and it’ll take until July for relief to actually arrive.
A group of Assembly Democrats, led by Asm. Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Huntington Beach, likewise introduced legislation to send $400 to every taxpayer, regardless of income. “This is a much more thoughtful proposal than a cut in the gas tax because a cut in the gas tax has no guarantee that money will end up in the pocket of consumers,” said Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks,to CalMatters, “Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood Democrat, endorsed an idea to give $200 payments to each California taxpayer and their dependents.
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