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Buying votes
$500 million. Buying votes with the public’s hard-earned money. In the business world, this would land you in prison.
— Marlem Mason, Garden Grove
Taxed enough
The passing of the gas tax is the standard state government response to a problem that lawmakers created, and now they want taxpayers to foot the bill. There has been a lot written about the diversion of gas tax money to other projects, and, while that is true, I don’t think that is the main problem.
The cost per mile to maintain the roads is the real problem.