Here’s the first YES on Prop 6 tv ad. Prop 6 repeals SB 1, the recent legislative increase in our gas tax and car registration fees.
Some points I’d like to make:
The ad says the typical family will pay $779.28 more taxes per year under SB 1. That figure does not take into account the effect this increase has on everything that arrives on a truck – from groceries to tooth paste and shampoo to clothes, shoes and school supplies for your kids. Neither does it include the effect this increase will have on services like public utilities, medical, day care, you name it.
Before SB 1 went into effect last January, California had the ninth highest gas tax in 50 states. Now, according to 24/7 Wall Street ( https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/01/26/states-with-the-highest-and-lowest-gas-taxes-6/ ), we have the second highest gas tax in the nation, at 53 cents a gallon. 24/7 Wall Street quotes the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Report Card For America’s Infrastructure – “the percentage of roadway in sub-optimal condition is 28.5% – the fifth highest in the nation.” In other words, we pay the second highest gas tax but have the fifth worst roads in the entire United States.
Think people, read that again – the threats Jerry Brown and his fellow pensioners are making about roads going unrepaired mean nothing. We’ve already suffered some of the worst roads in the nation while paying some of the highest taxes, how much worse can it get?
Here’s where the money has gone, and will continue to go, like kipple into a black hole – California now has over $1 TRILLION in unfunded pension liabilities. They know we won’t pay them outright, so they try everything under the sun to trick us into raising taxes for funds that can be pilfered later through allocation. Promises haven’t worked, so now Brown is threatening. Look at the visuals – I’m hearing, “Pay or Die”.
The ads Brown is running are paid for with public money, including conscripted union dues from agencies like California Highway Patrol. They’re breaking the law, using taxpayer money to run ads for a tax increase campaign, that’s desperate.
Write letters, tell your friends, it’s YES ON PROP 6.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
“…we have the second highest gas tax in the nation…”
When people say this they are not including the Cap and Trade tax (aka carbon tax) that refiners and other companies must pay. This tax adds another 12 to 14 cents a gallon to the cost of gas. When this is factored in California has the highest tax on gas and diesel in the country. And that carbon tax is going up every year.
Thanks Bob, this is a complex subject and a need to keep the discussion going.
Thank you