04/27/2025
Stop Debating the Mileage Tax. Start Asking the REAL QUESTION!
Right now, Californians are being dragged into endless debates about a proposed mileage tax. Should electric car owners pay? Should the tax be fairer? Should we worry about our privacy being compromised? Should businesses get exemptions?
These are the wrong questions.
The real issue isn’t how we should implement a new tax. The real issue is, why is California perpetually broke?
We already pay the highest taxes in the nation. We pass bonds, we approve new fees, we endure endless “temporary” measures that somehow become permanent. Yet every year, the state insists it needs more. More from drivers. More from homeowners. More from businesses. More from everyone.
Where is all that money going?
Why aren’t we demanding a DOGE-style, line-by-line, public audit of the state’s spending before a single new tax is even discussed?
By allowing the conversation to stay focused on how to tax us, we’ve already lost the battle. We’re arguing over the method of extraction instead of challenging whether more extraction is justified at all.
I’m not interested in debating GPS trackers versus odometer readings. I’m not interested in debating who should pay a little more or a little less.
I want to know where the money went.
I want to know why, in one of the wealthiest economies in the world, we are constantly told there isn’t enough.
I want accountability, not another tax.
Until we get answers, the only conversation we should be having is:
Where’s the money, California?
NO NEW TAXES UNTIL WE SEE THE BOOKS.