02-28-2020, 08:16 PM
freeradical wrote:
Another potential benefit to free public transportation for Californian's, would be that it might mean an end to our smog check system if enough people started using public transportation so that our air quality improved enough to meet federal air standards. That would mean not paying for smog checks, or even worse, having to pay mechanics to get our cars into compliance if they fail a smog check.
You think California is going to REMOVE a regulation? That's adorable...
We'll see a "per mile" TAX on every vehicle before we ever see smog checks removed. That will be in addition to more rise in gas-taxes. And rise in electricity taxes. And the creation of a special sales tax on vehicles.
And public transportation in California won't get better, despite the additional billions in revenue.