I pay more than $350 dollars every year because of that 59 cent tax. Maybe I wouldn’t feel I have a right to complain if California did not also collect taxes from other avenues, such as property taxes, car registration fees, and other fees and taxes that also allegedly pay for road maintenance, when I go outside and the roads in my area were re-paved every few years instead of once in the last 25 years I have lived in my current area in South California. Im not even out in the boonies or a low population city.
Even if I am being overly generous, at a little over 36 million registered vehicles in California, and lets just say I am an anomoly with a 27 gallon gas tank so we can say California gets less than half of my gas tax amount, which can be $125 per year, then the government gets ~$4.5 billion just from the 59 cent gas tax alone. Now I dont know about you, but that number sounds awfully reasonable to at least slurry coat a road more often than once every 25 years. Or just crack and pothole filling. Literally anything. And that is a low number I know is below the real numbers they are getting. 4.5 billion which is already alotted to be only for road maintenance and repair, and does not include any other additional income for road repair.
I don’t expect a new road every week, every year or even every other year. But 25 years (that I know of, probably longer) inbetween is way too long, by that point the road is so deteriorated that they are basically making a new road instead of just maintaining and repairing the existing one.
You know all this is public record right? You can request it and know for yourself. I can’t speak to how _your local gov associates their maintenance spending, but roadwork is still expensive.
I pay more than $350 dollars every year because of that 59 cent tax. Maybe I wouldn’t feel I have a right to complain if California did not also collect taxes from other avenues, such as property taxes, car registration fees, and other fees and taxes that also allegedly pay for road maintenance, when I go outside and the roads in my area were re-paved every few years instead of once in the last 25 years I have lived in my current area in South California. Im not even out in the boonies or a low population city.
Even if I am being overly generous, at a little over 36 million registered vehicles in California, and lets just say I am an anomoly with a 27 gallon gas tank so we can say California gets less than half of my gas tax amount, which can be $125 per year, then the government gets ~$4.5 billion just from the 59 cent gas tax alone. Now I dont know about you, but that number sounds awfully reasonable to at least slurry coat a road more often than once every 25 years. Or just crack and pothole filling. Literally anything. And that is a low number I know is below the real numbers they are getting. 4.5 billion which is already alotted to be only for road maintenance and repair, and does not include any other additional income for road repair.
I don’t expect a new road every week, every year or even every other year. But 25 years (that I know of, probably longer) inbetween is way too long, by that point the road is so deteriorated that they are basically making a new road instead of just maintaining and repairing the existing one.
You know all this is public record right? You can request it and know for yourself. I can’t speak to how _your local gov associates their maintenance spending, but roadwork is still expensive.