California fights to gain back their #1 position,......... in taxes that is!

I note with interest this morning that California has discovered that because their citizens are fleeing the state, those that remain are driving less because they are tax poor and the rest are buying more frugal gas using cars....... that the state is receiving less gas tax money! Duh...

Thus, they have decided to resolve the problem.  How?  Silly you to ask. They are going to RAISE taxes on gasoline. by ten percent. What other recourse could they have? Thinking? Planning? Cutting back on gob'mint? (bite yer tongue)

Besides, they discovered that they were #2 to New York in their gas tax amounts and #2 to Hawaii in their average overall price of gasoline...   This will solve that problem. Now they will be #1 once more.   What brilliance.

The average driver (15,000 miles per year) will see an increase in their annual gas taxes of $26.25 on top of the $478 dollars per year they are already paying.....  

No need to mention that the vote was three Dems - YES, two Republicans - NO.

(Just twixt you and me, I hope all those U-Hauls streaming East out of California either stop before they get to Texas or head straight on thru to Florida and one of them other nice east coast states.. I ain't being inhospitable you know, it's just them Blue State ex-pats have a way of demanding their new states go down the same rat hole with hand outs.)