Elisha Krauss

So speaking of the California gubernatorial race, a GOP gubernatorial candidate, friend of the pod, Steve Hilton, is talking about this new insane tax that would charge California drivers per mile.

Have you heard about this?

Passed last week.

Apparently, Steve Hilton talks about, quote, if Democrats get their way, the journey and every single journey made by anywhere, anyone in California will be tracked.

And we're going to have to pay a charge for every mile that we drive.

It's kind of outrageous on top of the fact that, like, we pay the highest taxes per gallon of gas in the state.

California's proposed mileage tax, also called a road charge, would replace the gas tax with a per mile fee.

The controversial Assembly Bill 1421 passed by, wait for it, 43 to 18 last Thursday, despite pushback from critics suspicious of other pinches on their wallets.

The bill does not enact the tax, but will research rates and collection methods by the California Transportation Commission and the State Transportation Agency.

And then the report on those conclusions is due by January of next year.

The only budgets they like to reduce are for clearing out debris and funding fire departments.

But then what happens when – and this could happen in New York City with Mom Donnie, right?

It could happen here in California if, heaven forbid, we don't get a decent Republican as governor next time around is then all the billionaires leave.

The middle class people like myself, the small business owners who can't afford an extra –

thousand dollars per year or it's a pinch right well then this starts to happen and people continue to flee and then your deficit continues and continues and then you only have people that are on the payroll or mooching off the system yes then you the state is worse off than it is even like i'm just curious about the general timeline of like how long does it take for that to come into effect before people wake up well i mean we're already there and that people are leaving but i mean the wake up where's the wake up point

Really?

I'm sorry.

I'm saying, when's that wake up point?

Who are the 18 brave souls in the California Assembly that voted against this?

It's also the writing was on the wall here.