February 2, 2026 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/02) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about the fight against the mileage tax. More on fighting the Mileage tax. Why are LA's roads so bad? LAPD has not been enforcing Gov. Newsom's mask ban for federal law enforcement.
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All right, now, let's get to all right. First thing
you need to notice. Set this up. What is the
average price of gas in California. It is four dollars
and thirty five cents, highest in the continental the.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
United States four thirty five.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What's the price of gas nationally to eighty seven, so
it's a dollar fifty difference. And the lowest price is
Oklahoma at two thirty six. So we're two dollars more
than Oklahoma, a dollar fifty more than the national average.
And ondn't you know that we have about a dollar
fifties worth of taxes we pay per gallon. And now
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on top of the most expensive set of gas taxes
in America, they want to add a mileage tax. Yes,
you would get taxed anywhere between two and nine cents
per mile you drive.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
This is real. There is legislation bubbling in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And we're going to talk to the best guy who
can explain what's going on, and that's Carl de Mile,
the Republican assemblyment from San Diego.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Carl, how are you, hey, John Helen not.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Drivers better get ready to grab their wallet because the
politicians are coming for more money. We have the highest
gas tax that you just pointed out in the nation
gas taxes. When you add in the cap and trade
fees that they charge, it's about a buck thirty five
per gallon for just the taxes state state taxes. And
then on top of that, if they enact this mileage
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tax six cents per mile for the typical gas mileage
you get per gallon, it's an eighty cent increase in
the gas tax, or nine hundred dollars per driver per
year if you drive fifteen thousand miles. Now, working families
tend to drive more mileage on their cars because they
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work farther, they live farther away for housing costs from
where they live. They're going to pay potentially twelve hundred
dollars per year per car. All in, when you take
the car tax, the gas tax, and this new mileage tax,
a family with two cars with average mileage will be
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paying forty two hundred dollars just for the privilege of
driving on crappy roads In California. And that does not
include insurance for their car, the price of their car,
the actual base cost of the fuel. This is forty
two hundred dollars going to the lining greedy politicians who
aren't fixing roads. They're just trying to get our money.
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This is insanity and we need to stop it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So this is an extra nine hundred to twelve one
hundred dollars a year per car, per per.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Car with fifteen thousand miles, If you drive fifteen thousand miles,
you're talking nine hundred bucks for the just the privilege
of driving. That's tracked.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's startle driving. That's roughly what I get fifteen thousand
miles a year.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, and then the politicians say, well, we're just studying it,
studying at my rear end. These people have no limit
to their appetite for your money. And we told you
with the gas tax when it was passed back in
twenty eighteen, and you know you and I you know,
suit it up and we got signatures and then they
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lied to voters with the misleading ballot title. But in
that SB one bill were pilot projects for them to
research the mileage tax. Then San Diego County and that
died a mileage tax in twenty twenty two. But before
it got implemented, we did enough recalls of local elected
officials in San Diego, but the politicians caved. They repealed
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the mileage tax for it actually started getting implemented. So
now the state politicians say, well, since San Diego didn't
do a pilot project, we're going to have to do
it statewide no matter what. And so that's what this
Bill fourteen twenty one Assembly Bill fourteen twenty one that
was overwhelmingly approved by the Democrats last Thursday. That's what
this bill puts in motion, a mileage tax for the
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state of California.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, so the first step is they would do a
pilot program. I thought they did a pilot program last year.
According to a story I'm seeing from Channel Tanna Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, they did a research pilot. Now what they're saying
is they're instructing the California Department of Transportation pal Trends
to come back with the implementation steps for the mileage tax.
That's what AB fourteen twenty one is all about. And
here's why I need people to get off the couch
and into the street, share the petition Stop Themileage Tax
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dot org. It's an online petition. Get all your friends
to sign up so that we can let them know
which politicians are voting for this. Stop Themileage Tax dot org.
And here's what we got to do, John, We got
to break the supermajority in Sacramento, or at least get
enough Democrats to commit publicly with this petition process that
they're hearing their constituents and that they are going to
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change their vote and vote against it. So Stop Themileage
Tax dot org. That's how we organize. All the information
is on that website, Stop themilage Tax dot org so
you can share it with your friends and family.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They want. They're worried that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Gas tax revenues might decline by thirty one billion because
people are going to drive.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's a made up number. It seems to me made
a number. That's there.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
What we know is happening. Yeah, yeah, here's what we
know is happening. In the budget. Every year gas price,
the gas taxes have gone up every single year because
they've put the gas tax on autopilot, increasing year to year. Secondly,
we had a about twenty percent of California drivers have
now implemented or adopted an electric vehicle. But all the
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studies show that the remaining drivers don't want anything to
do with electric vehicles because they don't find them convenient, reliable, affordable,
and they don't think that California is gonna have the
electricity to power those cars. They're smart, and so the
adoption rate for evs has plummeted and we don't see
people going to EV's anymore. So there is no revenue loss,
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There is no revenue crisis for these people. And the
idea that, oh, let's force the EV drivers to pay
their fair share. Look, that's exactly what the politicians want
us to think. They want to divide in concer if
you think they're going to be satisfied just with the
mileage text on EV drivers. Man, you haven't been living
in California very long. They're coming for you, baby, They're
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coming for you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I am.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I'm shocked every day that people aren't wildly suspicious of
everything they say and do. The amount of trust and
the amount of ignorance in this state is just overwhelming.
All right, stop themileage tax dot org. That's the key
to this. And if they go there, they will see
a petition that they should sign.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Correct, they should sign. They should share it with all
their friends, because we've done this before where we've applied
pressure to these politicians and then they suddenly, you know,
change their vote. We did that with the human Trafficking
bill a year ago. I believe we can do it
with mileage tax. But we also need to make this
the central question and election issue this November to break
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the supermajority, and so share that petition with all your friends.
Stop themileage tax dot org. Spread the word.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The roads are in such bad condition, all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The Interstate Highways pocketbook, yeah, the household budget and well
you pointed out at the beginning the people hit who
are going to be hit the worst are the ones
who can't afford to live and work in the same metro, right,
and so they have to they have to live like
fifty miles outside of LA and then commute in and
commute out, or fifty miles outside Orange County and in
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and out and in San Diego as well, So they
rack up one hundred miles a day driving because they
can't afford housing here in the city. And now they're
going to get penalized further for not being able to
afford the housing. Now they won't be able to afford
the drive.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah. Yeah, that's insane. And then the Democrats say, oh,
this the inflation is because the oil and gas companies
are price gouging. Please, and that's how they avoid accountability.
So we need people to be educated, and that's what
the petition helps us do. Reach people, you know, educate them,
and then engage them in the voting process of this
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November stopthimileage tax dot org. That's where people need to go.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
All right, this is another thing, Carl. As you find
out more, let us know. We'll have you back on. Okay,
well we will take care all right, Carldon, my assembly
assemblymen down in the San Diego area on a mileage. Yeah,
the gas tax not only at a record high, not
only the highest in the country. Now they're gonna charge
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you in this proposal perhaps six cents a mile every mile,
every day of the year, and it'll cost the average
driver between nine hundred and twelve hundred dollars a year,
assuming you travel in the range of fifteen thousand miles.
We're gonna talk more about this. I need, I need,
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we need to go step by step on how badly
you're being screwed right now. You need to wake up.
All right, they're coming for more of your money. You
can't afford. You can't afford life already, and now they're
gonna take more just because they can. Oh my god,
we gotta vote differently. You must vote differently.
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I didn't have fifteen other things that we got to
get to today, I think I'd screamed for the whole
three hours. Who wants to pay this new mileage tax?
This new gas tax?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Never? You want to pay increased?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Up kidding me?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I'm sick and tired of what I pay already.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Eric, you're you want to pay more money just to
drive to work every day?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Not?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I don't either. Is there anybody who wants to
pay more tax for driving?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Is the gas tax?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You feel you're not doing enough, You're not paying your
fair share. You'd like to be taxed by the mile
in addition to being taxed by the gallot?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Is there any constituency for this?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Did anybody elect an assembly person, a state senator or
the governor because you felt we were under taxed when
they came to driving our cars? Who felt that way?
I don't think you wouldn't even need an old fashioned
phone booth to house all the people who really would
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support this stupid thing. And yet it's on a fast
track if people don't stop it. So if you're just
joining us, you just said Carl to my own he's
the assemblyman down from San Diego Republican, and there is
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now a new proposal that's passed in Sacramento for a study,
it'd be wary because that's how Newsom's all those Sikkos
in Newsom's office, they're trying to spin its like, no, no,
this is just a study. The study is to determine
exactly how bad the tax will be. That's what the
study is for. When they determine it then they'll impose
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the tax and they'll have unanimous Democratic support. And this
is really important, and Carl brought this up. It used
to be not that long ago that the Republicans had
enough bodies in the Assembly and Senate so that the
Democrats did not have a supermajority. A supermajority is a
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two thirds to one third advantage, and you can't pass
taxes in the legislature unless it's a two thirds vote
in favor.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And so for a.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Long time, the small amount of Republicans would be able
to block tax increases. Now that's been gone the last
few years, and if it doesn't change, they're going to
have a wide open road to pass this bill to
come up with the mileage tax. It's also known as
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a road tax. And here is the big buy. Whenever
it comes to anything out of the Sacrament of Legislature
or Governor Newson's office, there's always a big lie at
the center of it. And the big lie here is, oh, well,
you know, we're losing revenue because more people are driving
electric cars. And this is all goes to the roads.
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You drive on the roads. We all drive the same roads.
The roads are rough, strewn with potholes when I drive
down the roads. And it could be it could be
a boulevard like Sunset Boulevard. It could be a super
highway like the four or five. It could be a
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regular state highway. It could be the roads in my neighborhood.
They're all bad. They're they're all you pick you know, like,
these are the roads that they have in Ukraine. Now
after the Russians barged in. These are the roads they
have in Gaza, Afghanistan, Iran after we drop the missile.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
These are the roads we have.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They look more torn, they're in terrible condition, and they're
rarely fixed.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
In fact, I gotta dig out that story. I've been
sitting on it for a few days. Why Los Angeles
doesn't repair its roads. It was in the City Journal.
All right, I'll do that in the next segment. So
they've got this thing. Six cents a mile, you get
taxed for driving. They'll be checking on you. It'll be
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part of an annual inspection, or maybe they'll have some
device that reports back to the government in Sacramento. It's
going to cost you between nine and twelve hundred extra
tax dollars a year, nine and twelve assuming you go
fifteen thousand miles, and they claim well more people driving
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electric vehicles. The electric vehicle surge has petered out because
for many reasons, they don't work very well in modern life.
I mean, it's not practical. They may work to a
limited extent, but I know when I was just at
Lax the other day to pick somebody up at the airport,
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You're drive into one of those garages and the jackasses
have set aside. I can't tell you how many spaces
for electric vehicles, and they have a little electric charging
station next to it.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
They're all empty.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You got to drive up to the third floor, the
fourth floor, the roof of the garage at Lax because
so many empty spaces are down below.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Is that not right? Have you been there?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I can't stand going to Lax and yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's just too much.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Short term parking. You want to be there for an
hour while you pick somebody up. Yeah, you got to
drive and drive and drive and drive because they have
turned so much. On top of that excessive amount of
handicapped spots, there simply aren't that many handicapped people all
going to the airport for short term pike.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
There's always tons of spaces.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So between the excessive amount of handicap spots and the
half the people who parking handicap have fake placards.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right, yes, absolutely, Oh yeah. You see a thirty seven
year old mother coming out of the car.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
They might have a heart condition, John.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But they're carrying two heavy bags and a kid. But yeah,
you're right, could be a hidden hard condition. It must
be a lot of those, So a lot of a
lot of the handicap placards. That has its own massive scam.
Now you have the electric vehicle scam. There just aren't
that many. Because this is obvious talking about this a
thousand times, they didn't build charging stations. I suppose you
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go to the airport, there's plenty of them. But out
in the real world there aren't that many charging stations.
And if it was widely adopted, the electrical grid would
short out. We have a massive blackout. There's not enough
electricity being generated to deal with the need if we
all went to electric vehicles. The whole thing is phony, blowny,
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bogus nonsense. And I'm sure there's all kinds of corruption
going on here. There's gotta be. But this six cent
a mile tax, you've got to fight this, like hell,
you really do. This is outrageous. We are paying a
dollar fifty more than the national average for gas. We're
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paying two dollars more than some states like Oklahoma, two
dollars more. And then we're gonna have a mileage tax,
which nobody else has. Our gas tax is sixty one
cents a gallon and that's less than half of the
total tax. Because there's all these stupid climate change taxes.
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How many times are you gonna be bent over? How
many so stop themileage tax dot org, Stop themileage tax
dot or go to that and sign the petition and
we'll be on on this day and night. Okay, we
come back. I'm gonna find that story in the City
Journal about why LA doesn't fix its roads. They don't
even try to fix the roads anymore.
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Speaker 2 (19:18):
Forty moistline is eight seven seven moist eighty six eight
seven seven moist eighty six, or using the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app. We've given you plenty already with
this new mileage tax percolating in the state legislature to
charge you six cents every mile you drive on top
of the gas tax.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You're paying.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
On top of it six cents a mile. Calculate your
miles fifteen thousand miles a year times six cents, that's
probably about nine hundred dollars you're gonna be paying. And
and it's fast tracked. They're doing their study. Now what
do they have to study? They know what, they know
what they're gonna do. They're gonna pass it. So I
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have to keep pointing out you want to go to
stop the mileage tax dot org, stop themilage tax dot org.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sign the petition.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Carl DeMaio is working on this, uh in order to
show the Sacramento jackasses, We're not gonna put up with
this one.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, there's got to be a limit. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
The streets suck, the highways suck, the interstates suck. Okay,
they're rough, they're ragged, they're potholed, they're there. It's it's
it's it's wartime here in California all the time. And
I know this when I go to other states. You
just have to go to Arizona. Just go to Nevada.
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Soon as you cross the state line, everything.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Is smooth.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And and and you here, we seem to have all
these different surfaces and and the paint is faded and
you can't quite tell where the uh where the lanes
are painted. They have like they looks like they have
black paint for lane lines that painted over old white lanes,
and then they have new white lanes.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Have you seen this?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And in the sunline you can't tell what's what. They
have these big rivets in between the lanes. Some of
the paving seems to be cements, some of it asphalt,
some of it's some kind of crazy patchwork. And you
go to other states and it's all dark asphalt as
far as the eye can see, brightly colored white lights,
reflectors for the evening drive, and it's all orderly. There's
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no potholes, and there's no rivets, and there's no bumps
and there's no patches.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Most states are like that.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
California has, by every independent measure, the worst roads in
the state. Nobody's even close. And then you get La County,
La City, and I don't know exactly where all the funding.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Goes, but it's all bad.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't know what the source of taxation is for
every city, every county, but it's all all bad. Now
listen to this, and I guarantee you didn't know this.
There's a publication called City Journal citydash Journal dot org.
Sean Reagan is is the writer here. I'm gonna read
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you verbat him his first paragraph. Los Angeles streets are
in notoriously bad shape. Fewer than two thirds are considered
in good repair. According to the city the Department of
Public Works, Almost two thirds are in bad repair. Broken
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sidewalks have spawned years of costly litigation, and Los Angeles
pays out millions of dollars each year to drivers whose
cars get damaged by potholes.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Now you would think, if all the.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Sidewalks are broken, and the roads are so badly damaged
and more, and what would you do if you were
running a city, You'd fixed the sidewalks, you'd repave the roads.
That would be the incorrect answer. As of last summer,
the city of Los Angeles stopped repaving its streets. Stopped entirely,
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and as Sean Reagan puts out, points out, not slowed,
not fell behind, zero no more streets getting repaved.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Do you know that you could have.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Guessed that the streets everywhere I look are in horrific condition?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Everywhere because they don't even bother anymore.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But again, our tax money was supposed to go to that.
And remember all of those TV commercials that that inspired
fear because it was it was it was linked into somehow,
it was linked with police and protection and crime, the
big Live and so people again, all of these these taxes,
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so many people don't really understand what they're voting for.
So when you ask, well, why are you, you know,
why would you want a mileag's tax, It's going to
be because it's going to be it's going to appeal
to people's senses of something that's totally fake, and people
are going to feel bad and sorry.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The money is going to the homeless people laying in
the streets. It's not going to repave the street itself.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The Bureau of Street Services again this is the city agency,
has not repaved the street since last June, and the
latest budget for the next fiscal year has zeroed out repaving.
They have not repaid the streets since June, and they
have zero dollars budgeted.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
For the coming fiscal year.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They're doing some road repairs and fixing potholes and patches,
but full street resurfacing has disappeared from Los Angeles. Now
why is this well, federal disability rules. Federal disability rules
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have made fixing roads legally riskier than letting them fall apart.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
See, if you do a.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Repaving, then you have to rebuild all the curbs at
an intersection and turn them into ramps for disabled people
for wheelchairs. When a city alters a street in a
major way, it must bring adjacent pedestrian infrastructure into compliance
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ADA compliant curb ramps American with Disabilities Act. Repaving is
considered a large enough alteration triggering the requirements. Maintenance like
potholes minor repair are not so if they actually repave
a road, each curb ramp costs fifty thousand. That's two
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hundred thousand dollars an intersection. With ten intersections per mile,
curb ramps can add two million dollars per mile to
the cost of repaving, a figure that exceeds the cost
of the asphalt itself.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
This is some kind of federal regulation. How nuts is this?
Let me go through this again.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
If you repave a street in the city of Los Angeles,
you have to put in curb ramps for the wheelchairs.
Four in every intersection fifty thousand dollars per ramp, ten
intersections a mile. That adds a cost of two million
dollars to the repave. That's more than the cost of
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the asphalt. Design and construction take nine to twelve months.
LA used to ignore this requirement, and then last January
the federal government implemented implemented updated public right of way
accessibility guidelines. So now what they do is just what's
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considered large asphalt repair, but not a resurfacing. It's putting.
You've probably seen this, just partial strips of asphalt across
the lane. That's why it's somebody the words, look what patchwork?
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Or they'll fill the pothole, but they won't do a
complete resurface, and so everything stuck. Los Angeles committed spending
almost a billion and a half on sidewalk repairs because
of disability lawsuits. By twenty twenty one, five years in
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LA had repaired less than one percent of its sidewalks.
It's going to take five hundred years to fix all
the broken sidewalks in Los Angeles at this rate.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Five hundred years.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
If you request sidewalk repairs on your block, you will
wait over ten years. The Hall City is literally busted
into pieces, completely physically broken down. Got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
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Speaker 2 (28:38):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock, well, we've got it. We actually have a
new schedule. I got to catch myself and correct myself,
I guess until I get used to this new announcement. Now,
we are going to post the podcast every hour as
soon as the hour is over. So the one o'clock
hour will be posted shortly after two o'clock. See how
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fast Eric can get this done.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm working as fast as I can here.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
All right, I'm talking as fast as I can so
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to the end of the show. So we're gonna be
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in competition with ourselves now. But we just did a
lot on the mileage tax, which is sledding its way
through Sacramento six cents a mile for every mile you
drive on top of the gas tax. So you're going
to want to listen to that. Now, a couple of
the stories here. Remember Gavin Newsom got himself all worked up.
(29:49):
He was preening and printing, well inside his head. If
you actually drilled into Gavin Newsom's head, you'd hit nothing
but hair je out. I'm not talking on his hair,
I mean inside his head. His brain must be made
of hair gel. Because he made a big deal about
the mask ban. ICE agents can't wear masks in California,
(30:11):
and so far there has not been a single ICE
agent arrested or detained for wearing a mask because minute
one I said, no local law enforcement is going to
enforce that law. No local law enforcement is going up
to armed ICE agents and saying, hey, pull that mask
off or you're under arrest. And so far, since this
(30:34):
thing passed, and I forget what month had passed last year,
the number has been zero. It was just complete nonsense
on his part, just preening for the camera.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I made a bad mistake. Kim MacDonald, the police chief
for LAPD, at a press conference Friday, said that his
officers will not enforce the mask ban. Quote.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It wasn't well thought out, said McDonell. The reality of
one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict
over something that would be a misdemeanor at best, or
an infraction, it doesn't make any sense. Newsman entitled this
the No Secret Police Act. Remember this hysteria. He was
(31:23):
going on national television carrying on about the Nazis, the Gestapo,
the secret police. It was all hysteria, it was all theater,
it was all garbage. He knew this would never work
in real life, but he wanted to position himself as
the anti Trump, a moron, so he signed the bill
(31:44):
into law. It took effect on January first, and it's
gone to court because the Department of Justice says the
No Secret Police Act is unconstitutional because you can't have
some penny anti governor tell the President of the United
(32:06):
States how he's going to have his law enforcement dress.
It's called the supremacy clause, but news some campaigns for.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Stupid people approval.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Most people don't know about the supremacy clause, which is
why they don't understand that the federal government rules immigration policy,
not the States, and that includes the mask The masks
that the ice officers wear. Oh, by the way, in
that riot on Friday night downtown, protesters through water bottles, bottles, rocks, debris,
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and other objects at the federal officers. And that's why,
that's why they have to have masks, and because they're
targeted by their identity. If everybody knew their identity, they'd
be killed. That some people would come up to their
homes and kidnapped their wife and kids, and these officers
(33:05):
would be followed to their house. And that's why you
have masks. Now, second stupid story. Did you watch any
of the Grammys last night?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
I usually do watch those types of shows, but I
did not.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
It was on in the background. My wife looks likes
looking at the dresses. Yeah, I missed that part.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I didn't really pay attention, So I missed this. Apparently
Billie Eilish, she got up and declared, no one is
illegal on stolen land. I don't know if you've ever
been to a public event or like a public meeting,
a council meeting or some such thing, they often stop
(33:48):
and they have a moment of silent meditation. I've actually
witnessed these things where we're supposed to remember the Tungva
Indian tribe which used to uh well on the west
side of Los Angeles. I guess they used to inhabit
much of that land hundreds of years ago and they
don't anymore. And so she's doing a two fer on this. No, no,
you can't have an illegal alien that the land itself
is stolen. Now, she's got a lot of blowback online
(34:11):
because Billie Eilish is worth over fifty million dollars and
I found a website that just runs through all the
homes that she and her family own. You've got a
house in Highland Park that's worth about eight hundred thousand dollars.
That's your childhood home. And then her brother has Her
(34:32):
brother was up on stage with her, the producer. He's
the Yeah, well, her brother bought a Spanish colonial in
Los Fela's that's two point seven million. They've got a
Malibu beach house the family five point two million for
twelve hundred and fifty square feet.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's just for starters.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
That's just like the first article I saw that they
put together, so three three big homes.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
And the general message online is if.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You're upset because the tongue the Indians had their land stolen.
Why not give up your house and your land and
take in some tongue of Indians. Now, I don't know
how many have survived in the tribe. I don't know
if they're on a reservation. I don't know, you know,
if there are any tongue is left alive, but maybe
maybe their descendants somebody. Right, here's my house, here's my land,
(35:26):
right I own? I mean that was that was five
million plus two seven eight hundred. Yeah, about nine million
dollars worth of homes. Billy Eilish and her brother have
turn it over to the tongueas make each one a reservation.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Sure, John, Yeah, well that's what you're upset about.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
She's apparently from what I understand, the Grammys had a lapse.
They went back into woke lecturing, which is what they
were doing five six years ago, and it destroyed the
television audience numbers because you just couldn't take it.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, I'm the oscars are going to be very very
much the same. They stopped doing it a.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Couple of years ago, and the numbers started going back
up because people would hang in longer, right, Because for me,
I would watch for a few minutes and the first
woke comment, I'm out changing the channel that I have
zero interest in listening to these people. I don't know
how they could be so stupid and so uneducated and
(36:24):
so irritating.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And I just.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Turned it off because I don't need to be aggravated.
It's one thing to have an opinion that you don't
agree with, but it comes from somebody who's really a
functional vegetable, and they're they're arrogant and obnoxious about it.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
But forget it. That's not that's not entertainment. That's that's
just nonsense.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And then the hypocrisy of owning seven million dollars nine
million dollars worth of property, but it's on stolen land.
Turn your land over? Has anyone ever done that? Has
any of these wokeheads ever turned over their house to
a Native American family? All right, we come back the
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Vanity Fair, the tongue bath of Gavin Newsom, Oh my god,
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All right, now, let's get to all right. First thing
you need to notice. Set this up. What is the
average price of gas in California. It is four dollars
and thirty five cents, highest in the continental the.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
United States four thirty five.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What's the price of gas nationally to eighty seven, so
it's a dollar fifty difference. And the lowest price is
Oklahoma at two thirty six. So we're two dollars more
than Oklahoma, a dollar fifty more than the national average.
And ondn't you know that we have about a dollar
fifties worth of taxes we pay per gallon. And now
(01:51):
on top of the most expensive set of gas taxes
in America, they want to add a mileage tax. Yes,
you would get taxed anywhere between two and nine cents
per mile you drive.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
This is real. There is legislation bubbling in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And we're going to talk to the best guy who
can explain what's going on, and that's Carl de Mile,
the Republican assemblyment from San Diego.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Carl, how are you, hey, John Helen not.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Drivers better get ready to grab their wallet because the
politicians are coming for more money. We have the highest
gas tax that you just pointed out in the nation
gas taxes. When you add in the cap and trade
fees that they charge, it's about a buck thirty five
per gallon for just the taxes state state taxes. And
then on top of that, if they enact this mileage
(02:45):
tax six cents per mile for the typical gas mileage
you get per gallon, it's an eighty cent increase in
the gas tax, or nine hundred dollars per driver per
year if you drive fifteen thousand miles. Now, working families
tend to drive more mileage on their cars because they
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work farther, they live farther away for housing costs from
where they live. They're going to pay potentially twelve hundred
dollars per year per car. All in, when you take
the car tax, the gas tax, and this new mileage tax,
a family with two cars with average mileage will be
(03:28):
paying forty two hundred dollars just for the privilege of
driving on crappy roads In California. And that does not
include insurance for their car, the price of their car,
the actual base cost of the fuel. This is forty
two hundred dollars going to the lining greedy politicians who
aren't fixing roads. They're just trying to get our money.
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This is insanity and we need to stop it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So this is an extra nine hundred to twelve one
hundred dollars a year per car, per per.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Car with fifteen thousand miles, If you drive fifteen thousand miles,
you're talking nine hundred bucks for the just the privilege
of driving. That's tracked.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's startle driving. That's roughly what I get fifteen thousand
miles a year.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, and then the politicians say, well, we're just studying it,
studying at my rear end. These people have no limit
to their appetite for your money. And we told you
with the gas tax when it was passed back in
twenty eighteen, and you know you and I you know,
suit it up and we got signatures and then they
(04:36):
lied to voters with the misleading ballot title. But in
that SB one bill were pilot projects for them to
research the mileage tax. Then San Diego County and that
died a mileage tax in twenty twenty two. But before
it got implemented, we did enough recalls of local elected
officials in San Diego, but the politicians caved. They repealed
(04:59):
the mileage tax for it actually started getting implemented. So
now the state politicians say, well, since San Diego didn't
do a pilot project, we're going to have to do
it statewide no matter what. And so that's what this
Bill fourteen twenty one Assembly Bill fourteen twenty one that
was overwhelmingly approved by the Democrats last Thursday. That's what
this bill puts in motion, a mileage tax for the
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state of California.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, so the first step is they would do a
pilot program. I thought they did a pilot program last year.
According to a story I'm seeing from Channel Tanna Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, they did a research pilot. Now what they're saying
is they're instructing the California Department of Transportation pal Trends
to come back with the implementation steps for the mileage tax.
That's what AB fourteen twenty one is all about. And
here's why I need people to get off the couch
and into the street, share the petition Stop Themileage Tax
(05:55):
dot org. It's an online petition. Get all your friends
to sign up so that we can let them know
which politicians are voting for this. Stop Themileage Tax dot org.
And here's what we got to do, John, We got
to break the supermajority in Sacramento, or at least get
enough Democrats to commit publicly with this petition process that
they're hearing their constituents and that they are going to
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change their vote and vote against it. So Stop Themileage
Tax dot org. That's how we organize. All the information
is on that website, Stop themilage Tax dot org so
you can share it with your friends and family.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They want. They're worried that.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Gas tax revenues might decline by thirty one billion because
people are going to drive.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's a made up number. It seems to me made
a number. That's there.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
What we know is happening. Yeah, yeah, here's what we
know is happening. In the budget. Every year gas price,
the gas taxes have gone up every single year because
they've put the gas tax on autopilot, increasing year to year. Secondly,
we had a about twenty percent of California drivers have
now implemented or adopted an electric vehicle. But all the
(07:05):
studies show that the remaining drivers don't want anything to
do with electric vehicles because they don't find them convenient, reliable, affordable,
and they don't think that California is gonna have the
electricity to power those cars. They're smart, and so the
adoption rate for evs has plummeted and we don't see
people going to EV's anymore. So there is no revenue loss,
(07:26):
There is no revenue crisis for these people. And the
idea that, oh, let's force the EV drivers to pay
their fair share. Look, that's exactly what the politicians want
us to think. They want to divide in concer if
you think they're going to be satisfied just with the
mileage text on EV drivers. Man, you haven't been living
in California very long. They're coming for you, baby, They're
(07:48):
coming for you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I am.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I'm shocked every day that people aren't wildly suspicious of
everything they say and do. The amount of trust and
the amount of ignorance in this state is just overwhelming.
All right, stop themileage tax dot org. That's the key
to this. And if they go there, they will see
a petition that they should sign.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Correct, they should sign. They should share it with all
their friends, because we've done this before where we've applied
pressure to these politicians and then they suddenly, you know,
change their vote. We did that with the human Trafficking
bill a year ago. I believe we can do it
with mileage tax. But we also need to make this
the central question and election issue this November to break
(08:33):
the supermajority, and so share that petition with all your friends.
Stop themileage tax dot org. Spread the word.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The roads are in such bad condition, all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The Interstate Highways pocketbook, yeah, the household budget and well
you pointed out at the beginning the people hit who
are going to be hit the worst are the ones
who can't afford to live and work in the same metro, right,
and so they have to they have to live like
fifty miles outside of LA and then commute in and
commute out, or fifty miles outside Orange County and in
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and out and in San Diego as well, So they
rack up one hundred miles a day driving because they
can't afford housing here in the city. And now they're
going to get penalized further for not being able to
afford the housing. Now they won't be able to afford
the drive.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah. Yeah, that's insane. And then the Democrats say, oh,
this the inflation is because the oil and gas companies
are price gouging. Please, and that's how they avoid accountability.
So we need people to be educated, and that's what
the petition helps us do. Reach people, you know, educate them,
and then engage them in the voting process of this
(09:43):
November stopthimileage tax dot org. That's where people need to go.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
All right, this is another thing, Carl. As you find
out more, let us know. We'll have you back on. Okay,
well we will take care all right, Carldon, my assembly
assemblymen down in the San Diego area on a mileage. Yeah,
the gas tax not only at a record high, not
only the highest in the country. Now they're gonna charge
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you in this proposal perhaps six cents a mile every mile,
every day of the year, and it'll cost the average
driver between nine hundred and twelve hundred dollars a year,
assuming you travel in the range of fifteen thousand miles.
We're gonna talk more about this. I need, I need,
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we need to go step by step on how badly
you're being screwed right now. You need to wake up.
All right, they're coming for more of your money. You
can't afford. You can't afford life already, and now they're
gonna take more just because they can. Oh my god,
we gotta vote differently. You must vote differently.
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(11:17):
I didn't have fifteen other things that we got to
get to today, I think I'd screamed for the whole
three hours. Who wants to pay this new mileage tax?
This new gas tax?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Never? You want to pay increased?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Up kidding me?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I'm sick and tired of what I pay already.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Eric, you're you want to pay more money just to
drive to work every day?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Not?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I don't either. Is there anybody who wants to
pay more tax for driving?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Is the gas tax?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You feel you're not doing enough, You're not paying your
fair share. You'd like to be taxed by the mile
in addition to being taxed by the gallot?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Is there any constituency for this?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Did anybody elect an assembly person, a state senator or
the governor because you felt we were under taxed when
they came to driving our cars? Who felt that way?
I don't think you wouldn't even need an old fashioned
phone booth to house all the people who really would
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support this stupid thing. And yet it's on a fast
track if people don't stop it. So if you're just
joining us, you just said Carl to my own he's
the assemblyman down from San Diego Republican, and there is
(12:38):
now a new proposal that's passed in Sacramento for a study,
it'd be wary because that's how Newsom's all those Sikkos
in Newsom's office, they're trying to spin its like, no, no,
this is just a study. The study is to determine
exactly how bad the tax will be. That's what the
study is for. When they determine it then they'll impose
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the tax and they'll have unanimous Democratic support. And this
is really important, and Carl brought this up. It used
to be not that long ago that the Republicans had
enough bodies in the Assembly and Senate so that the
Democrats did not have a supermajority. A supermajority is a
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two thirds to one third advantage, and you can't pass
taxes in the legislature unless it's a two thirds vote
in favor.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And so for a.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Long time, the small amount of Republicans would be able
to block tax increases. Now that's been gone the last
few years, and if it doesn't change, they're going to
have a wide open road to pass this bill to
come up with the mileage tax. It's also known as
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a road tax. And here is the big buy. Whenever
it comes to anything out of the Sacrament of Legislature
or Governor Newson's office, there's always a big lie at
the center of it. And the big lie here is, oh, well,
you know, we're losing revenue because more people are driving
electric cars. And this is all goes to the roads.
(14:21):
You drive on the roads. We all drive the same roads.
The roads are rough, strewn with potholes when I drive
down the roads. And it could be it could be
a boulevard like Sunset Boulevard. It could be a super
highway like the four or five. It could be a
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regular state highway. It could be the roads in my neighborhood.
They're all bad. They're they're all you pick you know, like,
these are the roads that they have in Ukraine. Now
after the Russians barged in. These are the roads they
have in Gaza, Afghanistan, Iran after we drop the missile.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
These are the roads we have.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They look more torn, they're in terrible condition, and they're
rarely fixed.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
In fact, I gotta dig out that story. I've been
sitting on it for a few days. Why Los Angeles
doesn't repair its roads. It was in the City Journal.
All right, I'll do that in the next segment. So
they've got this thing. Six cents a mile, you get
taxed for driving. They'll be checking on you. It'll be
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part of an annual inspection, or maybe they'll have some
device that reports back to the government in Sacramento. It's
going to cost you between nine and twelve hundred extra
tax dollars a year, nine and twelve assuming you go
fifteen thousand miles, and they claim well more people driving
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electric vehicles. The electric vehicle surge has petered out because
for many reasons, they don't work very well in modern life.
I mean, it's not practical. They may work to a
limited extent, but I know when I was just at
Lax the other day to pick somebody up at the airport,
(16:22):
You're drive into one of those garages and the jackasses
have set aside. I can't tell you how many spaces
for electric vehicles, and they have a little electric charging
station next to it.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
They're all empty.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You got to drive up to the third floor, the
fourth floor, the roof of the garage at Lax because
so many empty spaces are down below.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Is that not right? Have you been there?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I can't stand going to Lax and yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's just too much.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Short term parking. You want to be there for an
hour while you pick somebody up. Yeah, you got to
drive and drive and drive and drive because they have
turned so much. On top of that excessive amount of
handicapped spots, there simply aren't that many handicapped people all
going to the airport for short term pike.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
There's always tons of spaces.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So between the excessive amount of handicap spots and the
half the people who parking handicap have fake placards.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right, yes, absolutely, Oh yeah. You see a thirty seven
year old mother coming out of the car.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
They might have a heart condition, John.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But they're carrying two heavy bags and a kid. But yeah,
you're right, could be a hidden hard condition. It must
be a lot of those, So a lot of a
lot of the handicap placards. That has its own massive scam.
Now you have the electric vehicle scam. There just aren't
that many. Because this is obvious talking about this a
thousand times, they didn't build charging stations. I suppose you
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go to the airport, there's plenty of them. But out
in the real world there aren't that many charging stations.
And if it was widely adopted, the electrical grid would
short out. We have a massive blackout. There's not enough
electricity being generated to deal with the need if we
all went to electric vehicles. The whole thing is phony, blowny,
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bogus nonsense. And I'm sure there's all kinds of corruption
going on here. There's gotta be. But this six cent
a mile tax, you've got to fight this, like hell,
you really do. This is outrageous. We are paying a
dollar fifty more than the national average for gas. We're
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paying two dollars more than some states like Oklahoma, two
dollars more. And then we're gonna have a mileage tax,
which nobody else has. Our gas tax is sixty one
cents a gallon and that's less than half of the
total tax. Because there's all these stupid climate change taxes.
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How many times are you gonna be bent over? How
many so stop themileage tax dot org, Stop themileage tax
dot or go to that and sign the petition and
we'll be on on this day and night. Okay, we
come back. I'm gonna find that story in the City
Journal about why LA doesn't fix its roads. They don't
even try to fix the roads anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
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Speaker 2 (19:18):
Forty moistline is eight seven seven moist eighty six eight
seven seven moist eighty six, or using the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app. We've given you plenty already with
this new mileage tax percolating in the state legislature to
charge you six cents every mile you drive on top
of the gas tax.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You're paying.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
On top of it six cents a mile. Calculate your
miles fifteen thousand miles a year times six cents, that's
probably about nine hundred dollars you're gonna be paying. And
and it's fast tracked. They're doing their study. Now what
do they have to study? They know what, they know
what they're gonna do. They're gonna pass it. So I
(20:04):
have to keep pointing out you want to go to
stop the mileage tax dot org, stop themilage tax dot org.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sign the petition.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Carl DeMaio is working on this, uh in order to
show the Sacramento jackasses, We're not gonna put up with
this one.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, there's got to be a limit. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
The streets suck, the highways suck, the interstates suck. Okay,
they're rough, they're ragged, they're potholed, they're there. It's it's
it's it's wartime here in California all the time. And
I know this when I go to other states. You
just have to go to Arizona. Just go to Nevada.
(20:45):
Soon as you cross the state line, everything.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Is smooth.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And and and you here, we seem to have all
these different surfaces and and the paint is faded and
you can't quite tell where the uh where the lanes
are painted. They have like they looks like they have
black paint for lane lines that painted over old white lanes,
and then they have new white lanes.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Have you seen this?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
And in the sunline you can't tell what's what. They
have these big rivets in between the lanes. Some of
the paving seems to be cements, some of it asphalt,
some of it's some kind of crazy patchwork. And you
go to other states and it's all dark asphalt as
far as the eye can see, brightly colored white lights,
reflectors for the evening drive, and it's all orderly. There's
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no potholes, and there's no rivets, and there's no bumps
and there's no patches.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Most states are like that.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
California has, by every independent measure, the worst roads in
the state. Nobody's even close. And then you get La County,
La City, and I don't know exactly where all the funding.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Goes, but it's all bad.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't know what the source of taxation is for
every city, every county, but it's all all bad. Now
listen to this, and I guarantee you didn't know this.
There's a publication called City Journal citydash Journal dot org.
Sean Reagan is is the writer here. I'm gonna read
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you verbat him his first paragraph. Los Angeles streets are
in notoriously bad shape. Fewer than two thirds are considered
in good repair. According to the city the Department of
Public Works, Almost two thirds are in bad repair. Broken
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sidewalks have spawned years of costly litigation, and Los Angeles
pays out millions of dollars each year to drivers whose
cars get damaged by potholes.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Now you would think, if all the.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Sidewalks are broken, and the roads are so badly damaged
and more, and what would you do if you were
running a city, You'd fixed the sidewalks, you'd repave the roads.
That would be the incorrect answer. As of last summer,
the city of Los Angeles stopped repaving its streets. Stopped entirely,
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and as Sean Reagan puts out, points out, not slowed,
not fell behind, zero no more streets getting repaved.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Do you know that you could have.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Guessed that the streets everywhere I look are in horrific condition?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Everywhere because they don't even bother anymore.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But again, our tax money was supposed to go to that.
And remember all of those TV commercials that that inspired
fear because it was it was it was linked into somehow,
it was linked with police and protection and crime, the
big Live and so people again, all of these these taxes,
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so many people don't really understand what they're voting for.
So when you ask, well, why are you, you know,
why would you want a mileag's tax, It's going to
be because it's going to be it's going to appeal
to people's senses of something that's totally fake, and people
are going to feel bad and sorry.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The money is going to the homeless people laying in
the streets. It's not going to repave the street itself.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The Bureau of Street Services again this is the city agency,
has not repaved the street since last June, and the
latest budget for the next fiscal year has zeroed out repaving.
They have not repaid the streets since June, and they
have zero dollars budgeted.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
For the coming fiscal year.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They're doing some road repairs and fixing potholes and patches,
but full street resurfacing has disappeared from Los Angeles. Now
why is this well, federal disability rules. Federal disability rules
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have made fixing roads legally riskier than letting them fall apart.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
See, if you do a.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Repaving, then you have to rebuild all the curbs at
an intersection and turn them into ramps for disabled people
for wheelchairs. When a city alters a street in a
major way, it must bring adjacent pedestrian infrastructure into compliance
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ADA compliant curb ramps American with Disabilities Act. Repaving is
considered a large enough alteration triggering the requirements. Maintenance like
potholes minor repair are not so if they actually repave
a road, each curb ramp costs fifty thousand. That's two
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hundred thousand dollars an intersection. With ten intersections per mile,
curb ramps can add two million dollars per mile to
the cost of repaving, a figure that exceeds the cost
of the asphalt itself.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
This is some kind of federal regulation. How nuts is this?
Let me go through this again.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
If you repave a street in the city of Los Angeles,
you have to put in curb ramps for the wheelchairs.
Four in every intersection fifty thousand dollars per ramp, ten
intersections a mile. That adds a cost of two million
dollars to the repave. That's more than the cost of
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the asphalt. Design and construction take nine to twelve months.
LA used to ignore this requirement, and then last January
the federal government implemented implemented updated public right of way
accessibility guidelines. So now what they do is just what's
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considered large asphalt repair, but not a resurfacing. It's putting.
You've probably seen this, just partial strips of asphalt across
the lane. That's why it's somebody the words, look what patchwork?
(27:35):
Or they'll fill the pothole, but they won't do a
complete resurface, and so everything stuck. Los Angeles committed spending
almost a billion and a half on sidewalk repairs because
of disability lawsuits. By twenty twenty one, five years in
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LA had repaired less than one percent of its sidewalks.
It's going to take five hundred years to fix all
the broken sidewalks in Los Angeles at this rate.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Five hundred years.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
If you request sidewalk repairs on your block, you will
wait over ten years. The Hall City is literally busted
into pieces, completely physically broken down. Got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock, well, we've got it. We actually have a
new schedule. I got to catch myself and correct myself,
I guess until I get used to this new announcement. Now,
we are going to post the podcast every hour as
soon as the hour is over. So the one o'clock
hour will be posted shortly after two o'clock. See how
(29:00):
fast Eric can get this done.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm working as fast as I can here.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
All right, I'm talking as fast as I can so
we can get to the end of the hour. And
so at one, the one o'clock hour, we'll be posted
just after two o'clock, the two o'clock hour, just after
three o'clock, the three o'clock hour, just after four o'clock.
Hour by hour posting, you no longer have to wait
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(29:24):
in competition with ourselves now. But we just did a
lot on the mileage tax, which is sledding its way
through Sacramento six cents a mile for every mile you
drive on top of the gas tax. So you're going
to want to listen to that. Now, a couple of
the stories here. Remember Gavin Newsom got himself all worked up.
(29:49):
He was preening and printing, well inside his head. If
you actually drilled into Gavin Newsom's head, you'd hit nothing
but hair je out. I'm not talking on his hair,
I mean inside his head. His brain must be made
of hair gel. Because he made a big deal about
the mask ban. ICE agents can't wear masks in California,
(30:11):
and so far there has not been a single ICE
agent arrested or detained for wearing a mask because minute
one I said, no local law enforcement is going to
enforce that law. No local law enforcement is going up
to armed ICE agents and saying, hey, pull that mask
off or you're under arrest. And so far, since this
(30:34):
thing passed, and I forget what month had passed last year,
the number has been zero. It was just complete nonsense
on his part, just preening for the camera.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I made a bad mistake. Kim MacDonald, the police chief
for LAPD, at a press conference Friday, said that his
officers will not enforce the mask ban. Quote.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It wasn't well thought out, said McDonell. The reality of
one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict
over something that would be a misdemeanor at best, or
an infraction, it doesn't make any sense. Newsman entitled this
the No Secret Police Act. Remember this hysteria. He was
(31:23):
going on national television carrying on about the Nazis, the Gestapo,
the secret police. It was all hysteria, it was all theater,
it was all garbage. He knew this would never work
in real life, but he wanted to position himself as
the anti Trump, a moron, so he signed the bill
(31:44):
into law. It took effect on January first, and it's
gone to court because the Department of Justice says the
No Secret Police Act is unconstitutional because you can't have
some penny anti governor tell the President of the United
(32:06):
States how he's going to have his law enforcement dress.
It's called the supremacy clause, but news some campaigns for.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Stupid people approval.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Most people don't know about the supremacy clause, which is
why they don't understand that the federal government rules immigration policy,
not the States, and that includes the mask The masks
that the ice officers wear. Oh, by the way, in
that riot on Friday night downtown, protesters through water bottles, bottles, rocks, debris,
(32:40):
and other objects at the federal officers. And that's why,
that's why they have to have masks, and because they're
targeted by their identity. If everybody knew their identity, they'd
be killed. That some people would come up to their
homes and kidnapped their wife and kids, and these officers
(33:05):
would be followed to their house. And that's why you
have masks. Now, second stupid story. Did you watch any
of the Grammys last night?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
I usually do watch those types of shows, but I
did not.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
It was on in the background. My wife looks likes
looking at the dresses. Yeah, I missed that part.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I didn't really pay attention, So I missed this. Apparently
Billie Eilish, she got up and declared, no one is
illegal on stolen land. I don't know if you've ever
been to a public event or like a public meeting,
a council meeting or some such thing, they often stop
(33:48):
and they have a moment of silent meditation. I've actually
witnessed these things where we're supposed to remember the Tungva
Indian tribe which used to uh well on the west
side of Los Angeles. I guess they used to inhabit
much of that land hundreds of years ago and they
don't anymore. And so she's doing a two fer on this. No, no,
you can't have an illegal alien that the land itself
is stolen. Now, she's got a lot of blowback online
(34:11):
because Billie Eilish is worth over fifty million dollars and
I found a website that just runs through all the
homes that she and her family own. You've got a
house in Highland Park that's worth about eight hundred thousand dollars.
That's your childhood home. And then her brother has Her
(34:32):
brother was up on stage with her, the producer. He's
the Yeah, well, her brother bought a Spanish colonial in
Los Fela's that's two point seven million. They've got a
Malibu beach house the family five point two million for
twelve hundred and fifty square feet.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's just for starters.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
That's just like the first article I saw that they
put together, so three three big homes.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
And the general message online is if.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You're upset because the tongue the Indians had their land stolen.
Why not give up your house and your land and
take in some tongue of Indians. Now, I don't know
how many have survived in the tribe. I don't know
if they're on a reservation. I don't know, you know,
if there are any tongue is left alive, but maybe
maybe their descendants somebody. Right, here's my house, here's my land,
(35:26):
right I own? I mean that was that was five
million plus two seven eight hundred. Yeah, about nine million
dollars worth of homes. Billy Eilish and her brother have
turn it over to the tongueas make each one a reservation.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Sure, John, Yeah, well that's what you're upset about.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
She's apparently from what I understand, the Grammys had a lapse.
They went back into woke lecturing, which is what they
were doing five six years ago, and it destroyed the
television audience numbers because you just couldn't take it.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, I'm the oscars are going to be very very
much the same. They stopped doing it a.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Couple of years ago, and the numbers started going back
up because people would hang in longer, right, Because for me,
I would watch for a few minutes and the first
woke comment, I'm out changing the channel that I have
zero interest in listening to these people. I don't know
how they could be so stupid and so uneducated and
(36:24):
so irritating.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And I just.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Turned it off because I don't need to be aggravated.
It's one thing to have an opinion that you don't
agree with, but it comes from somebody who's really a
functional vegetable, and they're they're arrogant and obnoxious about it.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
But forget it. That's not that's not entertainment. That's that's
just nonsense.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And then the hypocrisy of owning seven million dollars nine
million dollars worth of property, but it's on stolen land.
Turn your land over? Has anyone ever done that? Has
any of these wokeheads ever turned over their house to
a Native American family? All right, we come back the
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most the most offensive piece of writing. Have you seen
Vanity Fair, the tongue bath of Gavin Newsom, Oh my god,
oh my god. If you've just had lunch, it's going
to come up. Debor Mark Lyden the CAFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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