LA City Council Completely Out of Touch with Californians

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1. Pie Guevara says:

   Monday, November 5, 2018 at 12:24 am

   Conclusion: Who the heck needs any discussion over any resolution or issue before the LA city council? Do what we say and shut up. I hope Chico does not go down this road.

   I quit reading poll predictions. The only polls that count will be completed on Tuesday and it will take days to weeks to confirm the results. Hopefully Californians will not expand already over-reaching government powers and already insane spending and ever redundant spendthrift bond issues, but I am not hopeful.

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2. J. Soden says:

   Monday, November 5, 2018 at 6:23 am

   That same city council turns a blind eye to their homeless problem – just like Chico’s does!

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3. Tina says:

   Monday, November 5, 2018 at 10:27 am

   Many California voters have cast ballots “ear;y” with their feet…most of them likely R voters fed up with the dysfunction and criminally abusive misuse of tax dollars.

   The party in control is telling voters of they vote to repeal the gas tax their roads will continue to degrade. Voters should ask why the monies budgeted and earmarked for road maintenance have been redirected to other uses. Voters should also ask about the hidden gas taxes we are already paying that don’t get used to repair our roads.

   In 2016, The San Diego Union Tribune printed the following:

   hen Californians pay gas taxes at the pump, we expect that money to go toward California’s roads and bridges. Unfortunately, this is not entirely the case.

   According to a letter earlier this year from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), Californians are paying 11 cents more for per gallon of gasoline (13 cents more for diesel) this year due to the state’s “hidden” gas tax. That means drivers are spending $2 billion more annually for a tax that was never even voted on by the Legislature or voters. It is brought to you by the unelected bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

   If the state realized $2 Billion from this hidden tax alone, and gas taxes are supposed to be used to pay for maintenance and improvement, why are our roads not in excellent condition? A lot of maintenance and improvement can be accomplished with $2 Billion per year!!!

   The only plausible answer is that the Democrat controlled state does not manage the people’s money effectively or honestly!

   In 2018, Capitolitical Review reports, “Gas Tax Scam Exposed: $$ NOT going to Roads

   “In reality, motor-fuel taxes have been looking less and less like user fees in California and elsewhere because state legislatures (and the U.S. Congress) periodically raid highway trust funds to pay for unrelated programs. A decade ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to use $1.1 billion in Public Transportation Account (money to offset huge shortfalls in general-fund revenue caused by excessive government spending. The legislature responded by creating the Mass Transportation Fund, allowing $637 million to be moved out of the PTA. From 2007 to 2010, $1.3 billion in transportation funds was spent not to build or repair state roads but to finance other programs that were apparently more politically rewarding (i.e., generated more votes) than fixing bridges and filling potholes.

   To forestall such budgetary shenanigans in the future, Californians will vote in June on a state constitutional amendment to prohibit lawmakers from diverting transportation money to other purposes.

   Will it prevent them? When deceitful people, filled with a sense of power and omnipotence, want something they don’t let a little thing like laws stand in their way.

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