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Raise your hand if you can spell " Calaifornia"

I suppose it makes little sense to get into this with a poster who seems to have already have a list of prepared grievances about California, and is trigged by the mere conceptual idea of taxation for miles driven, that is not actually a law , just a proposal for a possible one.

A mileage tax makes more sense to me than trying to fund the entire California road infrastructure on gasoline taxes , because that ignores that electric cars under this system pay no upkeep for the roads they use, and are getting more popular everyday with both manufacturers and buyers.

With restrictions of the sale of new gasoline powered cars already on the books, it would seem only good government to try and keep the roads repaired without relying on only gasoline or other fuel taxes to pay for the needed infrastructure upkeep.

I just bought some new rims for my car, and they wouldn't last long if we had the potholes and poorly maintained roads common in some other states. I've seen cars in New York City drop halfway up to their hubcaps in a pothole. That was when it hit me why some people prefer softly sprung bloated road barges with no road feel. They might be buying them out of necessity, for the car I saw whose wheel almost disappeared into the pothole was , really, a Chrysler New Yorker.

With Northern California in the midst of catastrophic floods as I type this because of the climate dmage brought on from the burning of so much fossil fuels, one can't deny change is needed.

Of course, some will deny anything, since it is a personal prerogative. But a politician who denies climate destruction and the need for action now, won't get many votes from the folks who are now flooded out, or have had their towns burned to the ground , or read the papers about others suffering death and destruction.

I noticed the poster also had a beef about the Air quality management board being non elected. I think they work well enough without the added civic expense of elections , and having those now selected for hire make what are essentially the scientific finding they were chartered to do when the voters set up the agency, without having the additional burden of running for office, which few people can afford to do.

One can go there right now and see the reports of medical studies that documented irreversable lung damage to kids who are unfortunate enough to live the first seven years of there lives in the badly polluted parts of the san Fernando valley. An elected politician always has the primary need to be reelected before any other consideration, and might be influenced by donors to act against the public health, if he wants to keep his job.

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