April 23, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/23) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John. Carl kicks off the show with a deep dive into California’s proposed mileage tax — a per-mile charge that would hit every driver in the state. Carl breaks down why it’s an outrageous idea, how it punishes EV drivers after years of incentives, and what the real motivation is behind the tax. Plus, Carl lays out his own solution to funding road repairs without new taxes and explains how Reform California is fighting back against the state’s tax-and-track agenda.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. I
have got to say I had so much fun yesterday.
I've been off the radio for about a year and
a half since I stepped down after eight years at
AM six hundred co Go. Loved my time on radio
and I really missed it, so coming back yesterday, I
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was very excited to pick up kind of where we
left off. Many of you know I've been on the
John and Ken Show over the years, but with my
own radio show every day, having three hours to talk
about the breaking news, the problems in California, and of course,
more importantly than anything else, what we all can do
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about it. Because I don't just want to get your
blood pressure up, make you angry, get you all upset.
No no, no, no, no no. We come with a
whole basket of hope. And then the hope is that
if we work together, we can make California well sane again,
restore our state to the golden state of opportunity that
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we once loved. So I'm so excited to be sitting
in for John through Friday. If you have any issues
that you want me to take up on the show,
any topics, any questions you might have, use the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app ask anything, let me know
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what you're thinking. We've got a lot to get to today.
We're going to be talking about the mileage tax. Have
you seen this proposal that Gavin Newsom and California Democrats
have to charge you for every mile you drive. Here's
my hand and you can pick a finger. These people
are absolutely insane. They're everywhere you look. They're trying to
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get into your pocket, into your wallet, into your purse.
We're gonna be talking about the mileas tax and what
we're doing to block this absolutely insane, unfair, crazy, latest
tax money grab. We're also going to talk about the
corruption in homelessness spending. US Attorney Bill A. Saley has
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launched an investigation into the where did the twenty four
billion dollars of taxpayer money go that we have been
spending to quote unquote solve homelessness? Remember when Gavin Newsom
said I'm gonna solve homelessness. It involves raising taxes and
spending billions of dollars giving all the contracts and the
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grants and the funds to my campaign contributors. Oh did
I let that out? Hey, Look, they're not interested in
helping poor people. They're interested in lighting the pockets of
their campaign contributors. It's another boondoggle. All these homeless projects.
We'll be getting into the scandal associated with those funds.
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People need to go to jail all over this thing.
I'm so glad that Bill a Sale is launched in
a federal criminal investigation. I want to see people under oath.
I want to see them indicted. I want to see
them behind bars, because this thing isn't just the biggest
scam that you've ever seen. And then finally we're going
to get into fixing schools. There's a big election in
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twenty twenty six where we can actually get someone into
statewide office called the California Superintendent of Schools and it's
a pretty powerful position to get all the woke stuff
out of the classroom and really get our schools back
to basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic. All that's coming up
on today's show. Plus, remember use that talkback feature on
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the iHeartRadio app. Ask any question, raise any issue, and
I will endeavor to give you a response. So why
did I step down from radio a year and a
half ago. Well, I was sworn in just a little
over one hundred days ago as a California state legislator.
I'm in the Assembly, the State Assembly, representing Districts seventy
five in San Diego, and so I'm inside the belly
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of the beast. I see the corruption up close and personal.
These people are worse than you ever imagined. It is
more corrupt, more broken, more dysfunctional than you can possibly imagine.
And yesterday's show I kind of gave you a behind
the scenes look at how bad the corruption is. So
check out the iHeartRadio app. For yesterday's podcast, we revealed,
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because we're doing a Doze California project, we revealed that
last year California state politicians got one point four million
dollars in gifts. That's eleven, six hundred and sixty dollars
per state legislator. Has anyone given you eleven thousand, six
hundred and sixty dollars in the past year in free gifts?
They didn't think so. The special interests this last cycle
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spent eight million, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars lobbying
each and every legislator. That's two billion dollars over two years,
or more than eight million dollars per legislator. That's twenty
seven lobbyists per member of the state legislature, funded by
special interests. And I'm not even getting into all the
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billions in campaign contributions that the governor and the legislators receive.
This is why you'll never see progress on issues you
care about until we fix the broken, corrupt political system
we're in. It's not enough to say, Okay, here's a
solution to homelessness, or hey, here's a solution to the
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cost of living. No, no, no, you have to have
not only the solution to those pressing problems, which is
the easy part, you have to basically overhaul the whole
political system in California because this political system doesn't give
a rats rear end about your quality of life or
your issues. Because if you don't have a big campaign consultant,
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campaign check, if you don't have a lobbyist, a lobbyist
or special interest representative that you've hired to go pitch
your point of view, they're not going to care. Though
they say they care, but they don't. I see it
up close and personal every day. Okay, so let's get
into the mileage tax. I need real quick my top
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priority in the twenty twenty sixth election. We have a
lot of campaigns at Reform California. You can check out
our movement at Reform California dot org. That's our website,
that's our ground zero in the fight to take back
the state Reform California dot org. Reform California dot org.
But I need your help, and so we're going to
be highlighting this every hour. I need your help to
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put California voter ID on the ballot in twenty twenty
six so that we can clean up the voter rolls
and finally restore the integrity of our elections. If you
want voter ID to come to California, we need a
million signatures. Go to the website voter ID petition dot org.
That's voter ID petition dot org. Sign up voter ID
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petition dot org. And by the way, get all your friends, family,
neighbors to sign up at voter ID petition dot org.
We need a million signatures. All right, and we'll talk
more about voter ID in a moment. Mileage tax. Have
you heard about it. You better get ready because they
want to implement this awful, costly, unfair, crazy new tax
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called a mileage tax, and it would come on top
of your gas tax, on top of your car tax.
So you already pay the highest car tax in the nation,
the highest car tax and the highest gas tax in
the nation. So it's not fixing the roads. Oh no, no, no, no,
you just get to pay through the you know what,
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through your tailpipe. But you're not getting the fixes on
the roads. No, that's been the big old scam. They say, oh,
we're going to raise the guess text, but we're going
to fix the roads, fill the potholes, and we're going
to add a lane so that your congestion gets reduced.
Now they steal the money and they line the pockets
of all their campaign contributors, rinse and repeat, prints and repeat.
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The punishments will continue as long as the Democrats are
in control. So if you think that a mileage tax
is going to fix the roads, then come on, you
haven't been paying attention. It's a scam. So the mileage
tax will track your mileage. Yes, they are going to
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track and tax how much you drive, and ultimately it
will be charged at a rate of about nine cents
per mile for the average driver. That's about twelve hundred
bucks a year on top of gas tax, on top
of car tax. So listen to this report CBS eight
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in San Diego. I did an interview with them. They're
talking about how Newsome and Coltrans have just released a
report proposing how great a mileage tax would be for California.
Listen in it's cut three.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Currently, about eighty percent of California's road and highway repairs
are funded through the state fifty nine cent a gallon
gas tax, the highest in the nation. But with more
drivers now switching to electric vehicles, the state is getting
less and less funding for those repairs, now, leading to
this possible mileage.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Tax for all drivers.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well it's stop there, stop right there. No no, no, I
have to stop. No no, no, no, no no. The state
is not getting less gas tax revenue each year. It's
actually been going up, even though cars are more fuel efficient,
which is a good thing. No, no, no, no no.
The state is continuing to have record number amount of
gas tax revenue. None of it's going to the roads though.
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Don't for a moment think, oh, well, it's fixing the roads. No,
it's not going to the roads. It's going to transit bureaucrats.
It's even going the homeless camps. Of Caltrans's maintenance budget
goes to picking up trash in homeless camps, not maintaining roads,
cleaning up against up after the hoboes, which again is
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a problem caused by the state politicians. Oh but listen
in more continue with cut.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Three now leading to this possible mileage tacks for all drivers,
and not surprisingly, not all drivers are on board.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
No, not for it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Sorry, I'm ahard know on everything. I gotta save my
money where I can.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Cindyegan gel Hoffelina wants to put the brakes on any
possible per mile road charge for drivers, an idea the
state's now exploring. As explained in this video released by Caltrans.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
It's an innovative way to collect funding for roads and
highways based on how many miles you drive instead of
how many gallons of gas you buy, because as we
move toward a zero emission future, the gas tax won't
last forever.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Caltrans just completed.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You understand placed off right there? Stem Do you understand
all of these special interests are sitting there seeing dollar
figures in their heads. Because as we go in electric vehicles,
which we mandated that you don't want, then we need
to find a way to continue to fleace you. So
this is an innovative way. You know how they use
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the word innovative. I would not use the adjective innovative
to describe this insane mileage tax proposal. There's a couple
other choice adjectives I would use to describe it. I
think you can imagine what I would be saying about it.
But again, we are on KFI. We have a license.
We can't be vulgar on air and innovative.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Do you know how much they probably spent on this
marketing video millions of your gas tax money to basically
produce a slick video to try to con you into
thinking a mileage tax is a nice idea.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And it's all because the electric vehicles are coming, you mean,
the one that you've mandated and crammed down our throats.
That again, now, seventy percent of Californians have said that
they don't want to mandate for electric vehicles. They'd like
consumer choice, and most of us who haven't bought an
ev by now would rather have the gas powered vehicle
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at most, maybe a hybrid. All right, coming back, I'm
going to explain for some of you who might say,
but Carl, what about this point about the electric vehicle.
I don't want electric vehicles to get a free ride. OK.
I know what you're saying. All right, that's perhaps the
only argument that could possibly be used for a mileage tax. Again,
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I will respond to that argument. I will drop kick
it into next week. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Arl Demo sitting in for John Covelt, and we've got
a lot to get to about the mess out here
in California. The Democrats in Sacramento want to impose on
you a new tax, a mileage tax. These are the
same scammers, these thieves, liars and cheats that raised your
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gas tax at the highest level in the nation and
then did a car tax on top of that, saying
they'd fix the roads. They lied, and they stole the
money and put it in anything everything but your road.
So congestion is worse, potholes are worse, but your cost
of living is much higher. Right now, it is a
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dollar fifty three per gallon in state taxes and fees.
They say, oh, it's your state gas tax is sixty cents. Nope,
that's not true because they leave out the sales tax.
On top of that, the cap in trade tax, and
a variety of other hidden taxes that are applied through
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the regulatory burdens on the way we refine gas, lean
and sell gasoline in the state of California. So the
actual number is a buck fifty three per gallon, and
by twenty twenty six it will be are you ready
for it, two dollars a gallon. That's why we pay
about right now a buck fifty to two dollars and
fifty cents depending upon the week or the month. Higher
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gas prices than the rest of the country. Of course,
Gavin Newsom says, oh, it must be the price gouging
of oil and gas companies. I'm gonna order an investigation.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Wire.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Gas prices so much higher in California. Here's a floor
to ceiling mirror, buddy, take a look. That's who's responsible
for the high gas prices in California. You and your
cabal of tax raising democrats in Sacramento who've been in charge,
have given us two dollars on average higher gas prices.
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That equates to twenty five hundred dollars a year in
higher prices per driver in the state of California versus
the national average. If we just paid the average cost
of gasoline for America, which is about again, anywhere between
a buck fifty and two fifty per gallon cheaper, let's
say two dollars per gallon cheaper. You have someone who
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gases up once a week a twenty gallon tank. That's
twenty five hundred dollars per driver more than the national average. Again,
I'm not saying that you shouldn't have to pay a
little bit for maintaining roads, but you are being price
gouged by Gavin Newsom. It's the tax burden, no caral,
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it's the oil and gas companies. They're price gouging. No
are you? Are you? Are you really thinking that oil
and gas companies are angels in the other forty nine states,
they're just price gouging in California. Come on, please, dollar
for dollar, dime for dime, penny for penny, A buck
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fifty three per gallon is what the state politicians are
taking higher than any part of our nation. Now they
come along with a mileage tax on top of that. Now,
the argument is we need a mileage tax car to
fix the roads. No, no, no, nope, that was the
argument you used for gas tax and car tax. You're
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a liar, you've stolen the money. The roads are as
bad as ever. Try again, Betty, try try again. Okay,
we need a gas tax because everyone's going to electric vehicles. No,
that's not happening either. The electric vehicle market has literally
collapsed nationwide, but particularly here in California. About twenty percent
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of people wanted electric vehicles. They were what we call
the early adopters. But in the last two to three years,
the electric vehicle market has literally fallen apart. Automakers are
sitting on massive inventories of evs. They can't sell evs.
Everyone wants gas pirate cars or at best. Oh. Also,
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they're saying, well, the EV cars are free riders. Okay,
that's about the only argument that makes any sort of justification.
But let me just counsel you. Because you want to
go and get some money from EV drivers. The solution
is that you should pay a mileage tax on top
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of the gas tax, on top of the car tax
you already pay. That's like a pig giving a knife
to a butcher. Don't be a fool. Don't fall for
that nonsense, because again, EV drivers are only a small slice.
We're talking one out of five drivers at best in California,
probably about eighteen percent at this point. So if you think, oh, well,
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EV drivers should pay, okay, I could see us saying,
all right, there's a flat fee that they have to
pay in order to drive an EV card that makes
up for the lack of gas tax revenue. Okay, fine,
we can discuss that, But that's not what's being proposed here.
You're being told to swallow a mileage tax on yourself
as you're driving a gas powered car or at least
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a hybrid. That's not gonna make sense. You're only gonna
hurt yourself. And no one has come up with the
proposal of, oh, let's charge the EV drivers a flat fee.
When they do, then we can consider that. But I
would argue even worse than anything. You're saying that they're
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not paying for road repairs. Well guess what neither are you.
Let's be honest about this. Let's be clear, not a
single penny of what you're paying on the gas tax. Well,
maybe a little you know, here and there, but not
a whole lot is going to fix the roads. So
neither are you. Now that's not your fault. You're paying
the gas tax, you're elected representatives. I'm looking at you,
Gavin Newsom. They're not spending the money on the roads,
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so you're not for road repairs either. Road repairs are
simply not happening. So don't fall for this, this this
bogus argument that we need a mileage tax to make
up for evs. All right, coming up, I've got more
on this mileage tax. How are we going to stop it?
Everyone's saying, Okay, we don't want this, But Carl, what
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do we do? I'll let you know that's coming up.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Carl Demayo and for John Cobelt who's off for the week.
And I am thrilled to be sitting in, honored to
be sitting in. John's been he's the best in the business,
and so I'll keep his seat warm and carry on
the conversation with all of you. If you have any
topics you want me to cover, go on the iHeartRadio
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app and use the talkback feature. We're going to get
to some of those submissions very shortly. Remember, we got
to get voter ID on the ballot in the twenty
twenty sixth election. In order to do that, the initiative
requires one million signatures, and so we're gonna need you
to go to a website and sign up voter ID
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petition dot org. That's voter ID petition dot org. Share
that website. After you sign up on that website, voter
ID petition dot org, I need you to share it
with all of your friends and family, your neighbors, your
third cousin twice removed, even share it with Democrats because
guess what. Democrats, according to the polling, are in favor
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of voter ID as well. The only people who are
not in favor of voter ID Sacramento politicians and liberal
newspaper editorial board writers. The broken political system doesn't want
to clean up our elections, and so it's up to
you and me in a grassroots rebellion to do that
for the future of our state. So go on the
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website voter ID petition dot org. Sign up voter I
d petition dot org. We need a million signatures we're
talking about the California mileage tax. This is a crazy,
unfair tax that they're trying to apply on all drivers.
It's gonna make the gas tax look like, oh, I
don't know, an offering in a Catholic church, you know,
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communion box. It's it's gonna be a pittance. The mileage
tax is where they're really gonna get into your wallet
because they turn everyone into a caby. Remember that movie Airplane.
Remember one of the scenes the uh, the cab keeps
sitting in front of the air airport and you know,
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just running up a big bill, or you've been if
you've ever been in a cabin. And most of us use,
you know, the the ride sharing apps nowadays, so I
don't know if anyone uses a cab anymore. But anyway,
it used to be in the old days. You would
sit in the backseat and you would see the fair
constantly go higher and hire and hire with every moment
and every mile, and you're thinking to yourself, oh, golly,
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I hope we get there soon. I wonder if I
have enough cash in my wallet. Politicians want to make
all of us cabbies. Their proposal is to attach Are
you ready for this to attach a tracking device to
all cars. I'm not joking. This is how they're doing this.
These people are insane. They're bat blank crazy. They want
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a tracking device on every car. The Biden administration actually
passed a rule at the Department of Transportation back in
twenty seventeen, sorry, twenty twenty one, the first year they
was in office, requiring that all automobiles sold in this
country had to have the ability to track mileage and
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report it electronically. So all new cars are having these
tracking devices because that's where the liberal politicians are going.
They want a mileage tax. Remember, these people are quite clever.
They've thought through, Okay, if we ban gas cars right now,
how we bilk people as we add it to their
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gas price, and then we blame the oil and gas
companies as though they're the price gougers, when in fact,
jokes on everyone else, it's actually us, the politicians. So
they have a whipping boy, the oil and gas companies,
to blame for high gas prices, when in fact it's
their theft that has caused the pain at the pump.
And now that that scam is going to be, like
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I don't know, done away with because everyone's going to
electric vehicles. Again, not everyone's going to electric vehicles, but
in their mind, eventually everyone's going to be forced into
an electric vehicle. We got to have a way to
get in their pocket. Got to get the money. That's
our money, dammit. The people can't keep it, and so
they got this mileage tax. So they're going to do
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a tracking system for older cars. Are you ready for this?
If you don't have automated mileage reporting, in order for
you to register your car, you have to pull in
like a smog check and have your odometer red. Talk
about adding another time suck to your day. You're busy
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enough with your life, all the demands on your time,
but by golly, you're gonna have to make sure you
pull in, uh not for a smog check, but for
a mileage check, and then you're gonna be hit with
a sucker punch all at once. Remember we're talking nine
cents per mile, nine cents per mile, and if you
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drive fifteen thousand miles a year, that's thirteen hundred and
fifty dollars on top of the twenty five hundred dollars
that you're paying in higher gas prices versus the national average,
And so that's thirty eight to fifty just to drive
fifteen thousand miles a year. Gas price, gas tax price,
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gas tax, state gas tax price plus your mileage tax
is thirty eight to fifty. Oh, but you're probably paying
what six hundred bucks, five hundred bucks for your vehicle registration,
let's say five hundred dollars. You're talking forty three hundred
and fifty dollars per driver for fifteen thousand miles. Oh,
hold on, you drive more than fifteen thousand miles. That's right,
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you pay more. You know, poor people tend to drive
a lot because in order to afford where, you know, home,
they have to move farther away from the job centers.
So this is a very regressive tax. Three hundred and
fifty dollars. Oh, and that's after your income tax. So
in order to earn four three hundred and fifty dollars
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for your gas tax, your car tax, and your mileage tax,
you're probably having to earn another what thirteen fourteen hundred
dollars on top of that, depending upon your tax bracket,
let's say twelve to fifty. That's fifty six hundred dollars
per driver just for fifteen thousand miles. And I know
you're sitting there saying, Carl, I do more than fifteen
thousand miles a year, fifty six hundred dollars of your
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paycheck just to drive on the crappiest roads in the nation.
Kind of makes you want to vote Republican, kind of
makes you maybe not want to just vote, but do
something else, get violent, don't get violent, but do vote.
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And that's where Reform California comes in. We're leading the
charge against the mileage tax because this is coming and
we're making it an issue in all of the state
legislative races, state Assembly, state Senate, because they're the ones that,
with a two thirds vote, can impose a mileage tax
on you. So people say, Carl, how are you going
to stop this? Number one, we need seven seats in
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the state Assembly to break the Democrat supermajority. And I
have a list on the website Reform California dot org.
Click under target seats. Reform California dot org click under
target seats. I have a list of sixteen seats that
we can win in the state Assembly. All we need
are seven of the sixteen. These are winnable seats. We're
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recruiting candidates, we're training them, we're mentoring them, we're endorsing them,
we're supporting them. We have to have less than fifty
percent of those seats go our way in the twenty
twenty sixth election in order to break the supermajority. The
mileage taxes then killed. But but I'll do one better
for you. We're backing the Taxpayer Protection Initiative, the California
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Taxpayer Protection Initiative that would ban the legislature from imposing
a mileage tax without a vote of the people. Oh
and by the way, it requires that when taxes are
put on the ballot that you actually have to use
an honest ballot title that says tax increase, so people
actually know what the hell they're voting on that their
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wallet is on the line. Here, we have a plan.
We need your help, So go on that website, Reform
California dot org. Sign up, be part of our movement,
because we will give you a voter guide of all
of the candidates and whether they are Yes on a
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mileage tax or No on a mileage tax. And I'm
looking at you, Karen Bass, I'm looking at all of
the Los Angeles southern California city council members, county board members.
We get the yes or no answer from them on
whether they oppose or support a mileage tax. And by
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the way, when they don't say one way or another,
we put them down as assumed to be in support,
because you really need your head examined if you can't
say immediately that you're opposed to this idea as a politician. Oh,
I have to break do I Well, that's nice, Thank
you so much. Anyway, coming back, we will take a
couple of your comments from the talkback feature on the
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iHeartRadio app, because I know a lot of you have
a lot of topics, a lot of questions about how
politics works, why things are happening the way they're happening,
what you can do to join the fight for sanity
in our state. This is Carl Demyo filling in for
John Cobelt.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am six.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Carl Demyo filling in for John Gobelt. Coming up in
our two o'clock hour, we are going to blow the
lid open on the scam, the corruption, the scandals around
California's wasteful homelessness spending. I'm telling you right now, the
politicians are intentionally taking your homeless dollars billions and using
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it to fund their political campaigns. And we have followed
the money at Doze, California, and we've got the receipts
and we've got the evidence, and we're gonna present it
during our two o'clock hour, three o'clock hour. We're going
to talk about fixing schools, getting the wokeism out of
the classroom, and getting our schools back to basics, reading, writing,
and arithmetic. There's a pretty simple way to do that.
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But reminder, get online and help us clean up our
elections by signing the voter ID petition at voter idpetition
dot org. Voteridpetition dot org. That is your assignment this
week to help us get the million signatures we need
to put this on the ballot, all right. So we
have that talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app, and we've
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been collecting some of your questions and comments about news
things that you want to ask me about. What is
it really like in Sacramento? Is it really as corrupt
as we think? It's worse? Short answer, it's worse. So
I have not. I have not listened to any of these.
Producer Ray and director Eric have been going through and
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compiling them. They are the ones selecting them. This is
the first you are hearing it for the first time.
I'm hearing it for the first time. So I hope
I'm good on my feet. I think so. So pick
any of the ones that you want to hit me with.
Let's start with the first one, all right, The first
one we got is from d Paulson. Well, Carl, this
should be a great week on KFI. I think my
biggest concerns are why are we being so ripped off
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on gas, insurance and sales tax? If you could cover those,
I'd really appreciate it, thank you. Okay, short answer, the
politicians are corrupt, lying thieves. That's why you're being ripped off.
The politicians want your money. They will continue to lie
to you saying, oh, it's for the children. If you
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don't raise your sales tax, the children will suffer. Grandma
will have to eat cat food. Well maybe it's good
for her. I don't know, because you know what, with
the higher taxes, I'm eating cat food. Grandma's gonna eat
cat food as well because she's got to pay taxes.
You think Grandma doesn't pay her sales tax or her
gas tax or insurance tax. We're gonna talk about insurance
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in greater depth later this week, because unless you're living
under a rock, you probably know we have an insurance
crisis on our hands. Your insurance rates, if you're lucky,
are up by double digits, twenty to thirty to forty percent.
And if you're not lucky, your insurance was canceled and
you're you're forced into the government, government run insurance program
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called the Fair Plan, or as I call it, the
Unfair Plan, and your rates have gone up by three
hundred percent. So it's a major crisis. Let me just
tell you, and I'm gonna tease it because I'll walk
you through. I think we're gonna do it tomorrow, maybe
maybe Friday. But do you know that the politicians get
more money when your insurance premium goes up? You didn't
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know that? Oh yeah, it's it's it's it's absolutely they
have a self interest. When your insurance premium goes up
three hundred percent, they smile ear to ear because they're
getting three hundred percent more of their insurance tax. They
get a rake on every premium. Oh you didn't know that. Yeah,
government gets its little piece of the action. Again, none
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of the people in the media are following the money.
It's as plain as day. It's in the state budget.
The insurance premium tax is one of the biggest funding
mechanisms of the California state budget. It's three point six
billion dollars. They're profiting on your pain. And of course
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the gas tax we've been talking about all hour. They
want to pretend that the gas prices are higher because
oil and gas companies are price gouging. You man, anytime
gas hit seven eight dollars a gallon, what does what
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does Newsom do? He stands up there and does a
press conference. Oh, I can't believe it. Gas prices are high,
and I don't know why. That's why I'm ordering a
governor's investigation into why gas prices are so high. And
I'll come back and I'll give you a report once
the investigation's done. He never produces the report, and the
media never asks for follow up. None of the members
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of the liberal media, which carry the water for this guy,
ever say a governor this is now the seventh press
conference in seven years, and the seventh investigation you've ordered,
but we've gotten no report from the previous investigations. And
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all the time you always say, I'm on it, I'm
gonna investigate it. Oh and by the way, Reform California says,
break down the gas price per gallon, it's a buck
fifty three in gas taxes, state state burden, state collections,
state fees and charges and taxes. It's all that's going
to you, sir. Why do you need you a buck
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fifty three per gallon when other states are doing it
for much lower. We have a lousy media in this state.
They're either lazy, inept or they're biased or a combination thereof.
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And that's why I'm thrilled when we can bypass the
liberal media and go directly to the people again. Reform
California has a whole digital news podcast information program that
we spend a lot of time putting out news stories
so that you can share them on your social media platforms.
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That's why I'm here sitting in for my good friend
John Is. I want you to hear the truth. But
here's the thing. You need to share the truth with
all your friends and family. And that's why I go
to that website, Reform California dot org. Sign up at
the bottom because anyone who signs up and is part
of the Reform California movement. Every Friday at nine am,
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you get a weekly wrap of all the news stories
we put out and you can share them with your friends.
And a lot of times it goes into why your
gas prices are high, breaking down the California state gas tax,
why are the utility rates double the national average, and
how the government did it to you? Or why insurance
when it goes up, politicians are glad because they're getting
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more money. And you share these stories with Democrat friends
and neighbors because we don't do it in a partisan way.
We really just present the facts, and a lot of
them are now waking up and realizing the Democrat politicians
of this state have literally betrayed all of us. They
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have been scamming us so sales tax, gas tax, insurance rates.
Why are they so expensive? But we have thieves for politicians.
Short answer, all right, keep them coming talk back feature
on the iHeartRadio app. We will get to as many
of those submissions as possible, having fun with I mean,
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that was a softball, guys. You guys holding back on
the hard stuff. I want. I want the hard stuff.
So next hour, I want you to give me some
hard ones. We're gonna be talking about homelessness in our
next hour, and how billions of dollars have been literally
laundered by politicians to their campaign contributors. We've got the receipts.
But first News with Eileen Gonzales and the KFI twenty
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four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI Am
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. I
have got to say I had so much fun yesterday.
I've been off the radio for about a year and
a half since I stepped down after eight years at
AM six hundred co Go. Loved my time on radio
and I really missed it, so coming back yesterday, I
(00:27):
was very excited to pick up kind of where we
left off. Many of you know I've been on the
John and Ken Show over the years, but with my
own radio show every day, having three hours to talk
about the breaking news, the problems in California, and of course,
more importantly than anything else, what we all can do
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about it. Because I don't just want to get your
blood pressure up, make you angry, get you all upset.
No no, no, no, no no. We come with a
whole basket of hope. And then the hope is that
if we work together, we can make California well sane again,
restore our state to the golden state of opportunity that
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we once loved. So I'm so excited to be sitting
in for John through Friday. If you have any issues
that you want me to take up on the show,
any topics, any questions you might have, use the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app ask anything, let me know
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what you're thinking. We've got a lot to get to today.
We're going to be talking about the mileage tax. Have
you seen this proposal that Gavin Newsom and California Democrats
have to charge you for every mile you drive. Here's
my hand and you can pick a finger. These people
are absolutely insane. They're everywhere you look. They're trying to
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get into your pocket, into your wallet, into your purse.
We're gonna be talking about the mileas tax and what
we're doing to block this absolutely insane, unfair, crazy, latest
tax money grab. We're also going to talk about the
corruption in homelessness spending. US Attorney Bill A. Saley has
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launched an investigation into the where did the twenty four
billion dollars of taxpayer money go that we have been
spending to quote unquote solve homelessness? Remember when Gavin Newsom
said I'm gonna solve homelessness. It involves raising taxes and
spending billions of dollars giving all the contracts and the
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grants and the funds to my campaign contributors. Oh did
I let that out? Hey, Look, they're not interested in
helping poor people. They're interested in lighting the pockets of
their campaign contributors. It's another boondoggle. All these homeless projects.
We'll be getting into the scandal associated with those funds.
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People need to go to jail all over this thing.
I'm so glad that Bill a Sale is launched in
a federal criminal investigation. I want to see people under oath.
I want to see them indicted. I want to see
them behind bars, because this thing isn't just the biggest
scam that you've ever seen. And then finally we're going
to get into fixing schools. There's a big election in
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twenty twenty six where we can actually get someone into
statewide office called the California Superintendent of Schools and it's
a pretty powerful position to get all the woke stuff
out of the classroom and really get our schools back
to basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic. All that's coming up
on today's show. Plus, remember use that talkback feature on
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the iHeartRadio app. Ask any question, raise any issue, and
I will endeavor to give you a response. So why
did I step down from radio a year and a
half ago. Well, I was sworn in just a little
over one hundred days ago as a California state legislator.
I'm in the Assembly, the State Assembly, representing Districts seventy
five in San Diego, and so I'm inside the belly
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of the beast. I see the corruption up close and personal.
These people are worse than you ever imagined. It is
more corrupt, more broken, more dysfunctional than you can possibly imagine.
And yesterday's show I kind of gave you a behind
the scenes look at how bad the corruption is. So
check out the iHeartRadio app. For yesterday's podcast, we revealed,
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because we're doing a Doze California project, we revealed that
last year California state politicians got one point four million
dollars in gifts. That's eleven, six hundred and sixty dollars
per state legislator. Has anyone given you eleven thousand, six
hundred and sixty dollars in the past year in free gifts?
They didn't think so. The special interests this last cycle
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spent eight million, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars lobbying
each and every legislator. That's two billion dollars over two years,
or more than eight million dollars per legislator. That's twenty
seven lobbyists per member of the state legislature, funded by
special interests. And I'm not even getting into all the
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billions in campaign contributions that the governor and the legislators receive.
This is why you'll never see progress on issues you
care about until we fix the broken, corrupt political system
we're in. It's not enough to say, Okay, here's a
solution to homelessness, or hey, here's a solution to the
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cost of living. No, no, no, you have to have
not only the solution to those pressing problems, which is
the easy part, you have to basically overhaul the whole
political system in California because this political system doesn't give
a rats rear end about your quality of life or
your issues. Because if you don't have a big campaign consultant,
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campaign check, if you don't have a lobbyist, a lobbyist
or special interest representative that you've hired to go pitch
your point of view, they're not going to care. Though
they say they care, but they don't. I see it
up close and personal every day. Okay, so let's get
into the mileage tax. I need real quick my top
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priority in the twenty twenty sixth election. We have a
lot of campaigns at Reform California. You can check out
our movement at Reform California dot org. That's our website,
that's our ground zero in the fight to take back
the state Reform California dot org. Reform California dot org.
But I need your help, and so we're going to
be highlighting this every hour. I need your help to
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put California voter ID on the ballot in twenty twenty
six so that we can clean up the voter rolls
and finally restore the integrity of our elections. If you
want voter ID to come to California, we need a
million signatures. Go to the website voter ID petition dot org.
That's voter ID petition dot org. Sign up voter ID
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petition dot org. And by the way, get all your friends, family,
neighbors to sign up at voter ID petition dot org.
We need a million signatures. All right, and we'll talk
more about voter ID in a moment. Mileage tax. Have
you heard about it. You better get ready because they
want to implement this awful, costly, unfair, crazy new tax
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called a mileage tax, and it would come on top
of your gas tax, on top of your car tax.
So you already pay the highest car tax in the nation,
the highest car tax and the highest gas tax in
the nation. So it's not fixing the roads. Oh no, no, no, no,
you just get to pay through the you know what,
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through your tailpipe. But you're not getting the fixes on
the roads. No, that's been the big old scam. They say, oh,
we're going to raise the guess text, but we're going
to fix the roads, fill the potholes, and we're going
to add a lane so that your congestion gets reduced.
Now they steal the money and they line the pockets
of all their campaign contributors, rinse and repeat, prints and repeat.
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The punishments will continue as long as the Democrats are
in control. So if you think that a mileage tax
is going to fix the roads, then come on, you
haven't been paying attention. It's a scam. So the mileage
tax will track your mileage. Yes, they are going to
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track and tax how much you drive, and ultimately it
will be charged at a rate of about nine cents
per mile for the average driver. That's about twelve hundred
bucks a year on top of gas tax, on top
of car tax. So listen to this report CBS eight
(09:00):
in San Diego. I did an interview with them. They're
talking about how Newsome and Coltrans have just released a
report proposing how great a mileage tax would be for California.
Listen in it's cut three.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Currently, about eighty percent of California's road and highway repairs
are funded through the state fifty nine cent a gallon
gas tax, the highest in the nation. But with more
drivers now switching to electric vehicles, the state is getting
less and less funding for those repairs, now, leading to
this possible mileage.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Tax for all drivers.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well it's stop there, stop right there. No no, no, I
have to stop. No no, no, no, no no. The state
is not getting less gas tax revenue each year. It's
actually been going up, even though cars are more fuel efficient,
which is a good thing. No, no, no, no no.
The state is continuing to have record number amount of
gas tax revenue. None of it's going to the roads though.
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Don't for a moment think, oh, well, it's fixing the roads. No,
it's not going to the roads. It's going to transit bureaucrats.
It's even going the homeless camps. Of Caltrans's maintenance budget
goes to picking up trash in homeless camps, not maintaining roads,
cleaning up against up after the hoboes, which again is
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a problem caused by the state politicians. Oh but listen
in more continue with cut.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Three now leading to this possible mileage tacks for all drivers,
and not surprisingly, not all drivers are on board.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
No, not for it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Sorry, I'm ahard know on everything. I gotta save my
money where I can.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Cindyegan gel Hoffelina wants to put the brakes on any
possible per mile road charge for drivers, an idea the
state's now exploring. As explained in this video released by Caltrans.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
It's an innovative way to collect funding for roads and
highways based on how many miles you drive instead of
how many gallons of gas you buy, because as we
move toward a zero emission future, the gas tax won't
last forever.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Caltrans just completed.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You understand placed off right there? Stem Do you understand
all of these special interests are sitting there seeing dollar
figures in their heads. Because as we go in electric vehicles,
which we mandated that you don't want, then we need
to find a way to continue to fleace you. So
this is an innovative way. You know how they use
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the word innovative. I would not use the adjective innovative
to describe this insane mileage tax proposal. There's a couple
other choice adjectives I would use to describe it. I
think you can imagine what I would be saying about it.
But again, we are on KFI. We have a license.
We can't be vulgar on air and innovative.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Do you know how much they probably spent on this
marketing video millions of your gas tax money to basically
produce a slick video to try to con you into
thinking a mileage tax is a nice idea.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And it's all because the electric vehicles are coming, you mean,
the one that you've mandated and crammed down our throats.
That again, now, seventy percent of Californians have said that
they don't want to mandate for electric vehicles. They'd like
consumer choice, and most of us who haven't bought an
ev by now would rather have the gas powered vehicle
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at most, maybe a hybrid. All right, coming back, I'm
going to explain for some of you who might say,
but Carl, what about this point about the electric vehicle.
I don't want electric vehicles to get a free ride. OK.
I know what you're saying. All right, that's perhaps the
only argument that could possibly be used for a mileage tax. Again,
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I will respond to that argument. I will drop kick
it into next week. Coming up.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Arl Demo sitting in for John Covelt, and we've got
a lot to get to about the mess out here
in California. The Democrats in Sacramento want to impose on
you a new tax, a mileage tax. These are the
same scammers, these thieves, liars and cheats that raised your
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gas tax at the highest level in the nation and
then did a car tax on top of that, saying
they'd fix the roads. They lied, and they stole the
money and put it in anything everything but your road.
So congestion is worse, potholes are worse, but your cost
of living is much higher. Right now, it is a
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dollar fifty three per gallon in state taxes and fees.
They say, oh, it's your state gas tax is sixty cents. Nope,
that's not true because they leave out the sales tax.
On top of that, the cap in trade tax, and
a variety of other hidden taxes that are applied through
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the regulatory burdens on the way we refine gas, lean
and sell gasoline in the state of California. So the
actual number is a buck fifty three per gallon, and
by twenty twenty six it will be are you ready
for it, two dollars a gallon. That's why we pay
about right now a buck fifty to two dollars and
fifty cents depending upon the week or the month. Higher
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gas prices than the rest of the country. Of course,
Gavin Newsom says, oh, it must be the price gouging
of oil and gas companies. I'm gonna order an investigation.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Wire.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Gas prices so much higher in California. Here's a floor
to ceiling mirror, buddy, take a look. That's who's responsible
for the high gas prices in California. You and your
cabal of tax raising democrats in Sacramento who've been in charge,
have given us two dollars on average higher gas prices.
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That equates to twenty five hundred dollars a year in
higher prices per driver in the state of California versus
the national average. If we just paid the average cost
of gasoline for America, which is about again, anywhere between
a buck fifty and two fifty per gallon cheaper, let's
say two dollars per gallon cheaper. You have someone who
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gases up once a week a twenty gallon tank. That's
twenty five hundred dollars per driver more than the national average. Again,
I'm not saying that you shouldn't have to pay a
little bit for maintaining roads, but you are being price
gouged by Gavin Newsom. It's the tax burden, no caral,
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it's the oil and gas companies. They're price gouging. No
are you? Are you? Are you really thinking that oil
and gas companies are angels in the other forty nine states,
they're just price gouging in California. Come on, please, dollar
for dollar, dime for dime, penny for penny, A buck
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fifty three per gallon is what the state politicians are
taking higher than any part of our nation. Now they
come along with a mileage tax on top of that. Now,
the argument is we need a mileage tax car to
fix the roads. No, no, no, nope, that was the
argument you used for gas tax and car tax. You're
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a liar, you've stolen the money. The roads are as
bad as ever. Try again, Betty, try try again. Okay,
we need a gas tax because everyone's going to electric vehicles. No,
that's not happening either. The electric vehicle market has literally
collapsed nationwide, but particularly here in California. About twenty percent
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of people wanted electric vehicles. They were what we call
the early adopters. But in the last two to three years,
the electric vehicle market has literally fallen apart. Automakers are
sitting on massive inventories of evs. They can't sell evs.
Everyone wants gas pirate cars or at best. Oh. Also,
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they're saying, well, the EV cars are free riders. Okay,
that's about the only argument that makes any sort of justification.
But let me just counsel you. Because you want to
go and get some money from EV drivers. The solution
is that you should pay a mileage tax on top
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of the gas tax, on top of the car tax
you already pay. That's like a pig giving a knife
to a butcher. Don't be a fool. Don't fall for
that nonsense, because again, EV drivers are only a small slice.
We're talking one out of five drivers at best in California,
probably about eighteen percent at this point. So if you think, oh, well,
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EV drivers should pay, okay, I could see us saying,
all right, there's a flat fee that they have to
pay in order to drive an EV card that makes
up for the lack of gas tax revenue. Okay, fine,
we can discuss that, But that's not what's being proposed here.
You're being told to swallow a mileage tax on yourself
as you're driving a gas powered car or at least
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a hybrid. That's not gonna make sense. You're only gonna
hurt yourself. And no one has come up with the
proposal of, oh, let's charge the EV drivers a flat fee.
When they do, then we can consider that. But I
would argue even worse than anything. You're saying that they're
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not paying for road repairs. Well guess what neither are you.
Let's be honest about this. Let's be clear, not a
single penny of what you're paying on the gas tax. Well,
maybe a little you know, here and there, but not
a whole lot is going to fix the roads. So
neither are you. Now that's not your fault. You're paying
the gas tax, you're elected representatives. I'm looking at you,
Gavin Newsom. They're not spending the money on the roads,
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so you're not for road repairs either. Road repairs are
simply not happening. So don't fall for this, this this
bogus argument that we need a mileage tax to make
up for evs. All right, coming up, I've got more
on this mileage tax. How are we going to stop it?
Everyone's saying, Okay, we don't want this, But Carl, what
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do we do? I'll let you know that's coming up.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Carl Demayo and for John Cobelt who's off for the week.
And I am thrilled to be sitting in, honored to
be sitting in. John's been he's the best in the business,
and so I'll keep his seat warm and carry on
the conversation with all of you. If you have any
topics you want me to cover, go on the iHeartRadio
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app and use the talkback feature. We're going to get
to some of those submissions very shortly. Remember, we got
to get voter ID on the ballot in the twenty
twenty sixth election. In order to do that, the initiative
requires one million signatures, and so we're gonna need you
to go to a website and sign up voter ID
(20:10):
petition dot org. That's voter ID petition dot org. Share
that website. After you sign up on that website, voter
ID petition dot org, I need you to share it
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third cousin twice removed, even share it with Democrats because
guess what. Democrats, according to the polling, are in favor
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of voter ID as well. The only people who are
not in favor of voter ID Sacramento politicians and liberal
newspaper editorial board writers. The broken political system doesn't want
to clean up our elections, and so it's up to
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website voter ID petition dot org. Sign up voter I
d petition dot org. We need a million signatures we're
talking about the California mileage tax. This is a crazy,
unfair tax that they're trying to apply on all drivers.
It's gonna make the gas tax look like, oh, I
don't know, an offering in a Catholic church, you know,
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communion box. It's it's gonna be a pittance. The mileage
tax is where they're really gonna get into your wallet
because they turn everyone into a caby. Remember that movie Airplane.
Remember one of the scenes the uh, the cab keeps
sitting in front of the air airport and you know,
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just running up a big bill, or you've been if
you've ever been in a cabin. And most of us use,
you know, the the ride sharing apps nowadays, so I
don't know if anyone uses a cab anymore. But anyway,
it used to be in the old days. You would
sit in the backseat and you would see the fair
constantly go higher and hire and hire with every moment
and every mile, and you're thinking to yourself, oh, golly,
(22:05):
I hope we get there soon. I wonder if I
have enough cash in my wallet. Politicians want to make
all of us cabbies. Their proposal is to attach Are
you ready for this to attach a tracking device to
all cars. I'm not joking. This is how they're doing this.
These people are insane. They're bat blank crazy. They want
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a tracking device on every car. The Biden administration actually
passed a rule at the Department of Transportation back in
twenty seventeen, sorry, twenty twenty one, the first year they
was in office, requiring that all automobiles sold in this
country had to have the ability to track mileage and
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report it electronically. So all new cars are having these
tracking devices because that's where the liberal politicians are going.
They want a mileage tax. Remember, these people are quite clever.
They've thought through, Okay, if we ban gas cars right now,
how we bilk people as we add it to their
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gas price, and then we blame the oil and gas
companies as though they're the price gougers, when in fact,
jokes on everyone else, it's actually us, the politicians. So
they have a whipping boy, the oil and gas companies,
to blame for high gas prices, when in fact it's
their theft that has caused the pain at the pump.
And now that that scam is going to be, like
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I don't know, done away with because everyone's going to
electric vehicles. Again, not everyone's going to electric vehicles, but
in their mind, eventually everyone's going to be forced into
an electric vehicle. We got to have a way to
get in their pocket. Got to get the money. That's
our money, dammit. The people can't keep it, and so
they got this mileage tax. So they're going to do
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a tracking system for older cars. Are you ready for this?
If you don't have automated mileage reporting, in order for
you to register your car, you have to pull in
like a smog check and have your odometer red. Talk
about adding another time suck to your day. You're busy
(24:13):
enough with your life, all the demands on your time,
but by golly, you're gonna have to make sure you
pull in, uh not for a smog check, but for
a mileage check, and then you're gonna be hit with
a sucker punch all at once. Remember we're talking nine
cents per mile, nine cents per mile, and if you
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drive fifteen thousand miles a year, that's thirteen hundred and
fifty dollars on top of the twenty five hundred dollars
that you're paying in higher gas prices versus the national average,
And so that's thirty eight to fifty just to drive
fifteen thousand miles a year. Gas price, gas tax price,
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gas tax, state gas tax price plus your mileage tax
is thirty eight to fifty. Oh, but you're probably paying
what six hundred bucks, five hundred bucks for your vehicle registration,
let's say five hundred dollars. You're talking forty three hundred
and fifty dollars per driver for fifteen thousand miles. Oh,
hold on, you drive more than fifteen thousand miles. That's right,
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you pay more. You know, poor people tend to drive
a lot because in order to afford where, you know, home,
they have to move farther away from the job centers.
So this is a very regressive tax. Three hundred and
fifty dollars. Oh, and that's after your income tax. So
in order to earn four three hundred and fifty dollars
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for your gas tax, your car tax, and your mileage tax,
you're probably having to earn another what thirteen fourteen hundred
dollars on top of that, depending upon your tax bracket,
let's say twelve to fifty. That's fifty six hundred dollars
per driver just for fifteen thousand miles. And I know
you're sitting there saying, Carl, I do more than fifteen
thousand miles a year, fifty six hundred dollars of your
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paycheck just to drive on the crappiest roads in the nation.
Kind of makes you want to vote Republican, kind of
makes you maybe not want to just vote, but do
something else, get violent, don't get violent, but do vote.
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And that's where Reform California comes in. We're leading the
charge against the mileage tax because this is coming and
we're making it an issue in all of the state
legislative races, state Assembly, state Senate, because they're the ones that,
with a two thirds vote, can impose a mileage tax
on you. So people say, Carl, how are you going
to stop this? Number one, we need seven seats in
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the state Assembly to break the Democrat supermajority. And I
have a list on the website Reform California dot org.
Click under target seats. Reform California dot org click under
target seats. I have a list of sixteen seats that
we can win in the state Assembly. All we need
are seven of the sixteen. These are winnable seats. We're
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recruiting candidates, we're training them, we're mentoring them, we're endorsing them,
we're supporting them. We have to have less than fifty
percent of those seats go our way in the twenty
twenty sixth election in order to break the supermajority. The
mileage taxes then killed. But but I'll do one better
for you. We're backing the Taxpayer Protection Initiative, the California
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Taxpayer Protection Initiative that would ban the legislature from imposing
a mileage tax without a vote of the people. Oh
and by the way, it requires that when taxes are
put on the ballot that you actually have to use
an honest ballot title that says tax increase, so people
actually know what the hell they're voting on that their
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wallet is on the line. Here, we have a plan.
We need your help, So go on that website, Reform
California dot org. Sign up, be part of our movement,
because we will give you a voter guide of all
of the candidates and whether they are Yes on a
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mileage tax or No on a mileage tax. And I'm
looking at you, Karen Bass, I'm looking at all of
the Los Angeles southern California city council members, county board members.
We get the yes or no answer from them on
whether they oppose or support a mileage tax. And by
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the way, when they don't say one way or another,
we put them down as assumed to be in support,
because you really need your head examined if you can't
say immediately that you're opposed to this idea as a politician. Oh,
I have to break do I Well, that's nice, Thank
you so much. Anyway, coming back, we will take a
couple of your comments from the talkback feature on the
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iHeartRadio app, because I know a lot of you have
a lot of topics, a lot of questions about how
politics works, why things are happening the way they're happening,
what you can do to join the fight for sanity
in our state. This is Carl Demyo filling in for
John Cobelt.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am six.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Carl Demyo filling in for John Gobelt. Coming up in
our two o'clock hour, we are going to blow the
lid open on the scam, the corruption, the scandals around
California's wasteful homelessness spending. I'm telling you right now, the
politicians are intentionally taking your homeless dollars billions and using
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it to fund their political campaigns. And we have followed
the money at Doze, California, and we've got the receipts
and we've got the evidence, and we're gonna present it
during our two o'clock hour, three o'clock hour. We're going
to talk about fixing schools, getting the wokeism out of
the classroom, and getting our schools back to basics, reading, writing,
and arithmetic. There's a pretty simple way to do that.
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But reminder, get online and help us clean up our
elections by signing the voter ID petition at voter idpetition
dot org. Voteridpetition dot org. That is your assignment this
week to help us get the million signatures we need
to put this on the ballot, all right. So we
have that talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app, and we've
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been collecting some of your questions and comments about news
things that you want to ask me about. What is
it really like in Sacramento? Is it really as corrupt
as we think? It's worse? Short answer, it's worse. So
I have not. I have not listened to any of these.
Producer Ray and director Eric have been going through and
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compiling them. They are the ones selecting them. This is
the first you are hearing it for the first time.
I'm hearing it for the first time. So I hope
I'm good on my feet. I think so. So pick
any of the ones that you want to hit me with.
Let's start with the first one, all right, The first
one we got is from d Paulson. Well, Carl, this
should be a great week on KFI. I think my
biggest concerns are why are we being so ripped off
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on gas, insurance and sales tax? If you could cover those,
I'd really appreciate it, thank you. Okay, short answer, the
politicians are corrupt, lying thieves. That's why you're being ripped off.
The politicians want your money. They will continue to lie
to you saying, oh, it's for the children. If you
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don't raise your sales tax, the children will suffer. Grandma
will have to eat cat food. Well maybe it's good
for her. I don't know, because you know what, with
the higher taxes, I'm eating cat food. Grandma's gonna eat
cat food as well because she's got to pay taxes.
You think Grandma doesn't pay her sales tax or her
gas tax or insurance tax. We're gonna talk about insurance
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in greater depth later this week, because unless you're living
under a rock, you probably know we have an insurance
crisis on our hands. Your insurance rates, if you're lucky,
are up by double digits, twenty to thirty to forty percent.
And if you're not lucky, your insurance was canceled and
you're you're forced into the government, government run insurance program
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called the Fair Plan, or as I call it, the
Unfair Plan, and your rates have gone up by three
hundred percent. So it's a major crisis. Let me just
tell you, and I'm gonna tease it because I'll walk
you through. I think we're gonna do it tomorrow, maybe
maybe Friday. But do you know that the politicians get
more money when your insurance premium goes up? You didn't
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know that? Oh yeah, it's it's it's it's absolutely they
have a self interest. When your insurance premium goes up
three hundred percent, they smile ear to ear because they're
getting three hundred percent more of their insurance tax. They
get a rake on every premium. Oh you didn't know that. Yeah,
government gets its little piece of the action. Again, none
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of the people in the media are following the money.
It's as plain as day. It's in the state budget.
The insurance premium tax is one of the biggest funding
mechanisms of the California state budget. It's three point six
billion dollars. They're profiting on your pain. And of course
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the gas tax we've been talking about all hour. They
want to pretend that the gas prices are higher because
oil and gas companies are price gouging. You man, anytime
gas hit seven eight dollars a gallon, what does what
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does Newsom do? He stands up there and does a
press conference. Oh, I can't believe it. Gas prices are high,
and I don't know why. That's why I'm ordering a
governor's investigation into why gas prices are so high. And
I'll come back and I'll give you a report once
the investigation's done. He never produces the report, and the
media never asks for follow up. None of the members
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of the liberal media, which carry the water for this guy,
ever say a governor this is now the seventh press
conference in seven years, and the seventh investigation you've ordered,
but we've gotten no report from the previous investigations. And
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all the time you always say, I'm on it, I'm
gonna investigate it. Oh and by the way, Reform California says,
break down the gas price per gallon, it's a buck
fifty three in gas taxes, state state burden, state collections,
state fees and charges and taxes. It's all that's going
to you, sir. Why do you need you a buck
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fifty three per gallon when other states are doing it
for much lower. We have a lousy media in this state.
They're either lazy, inept or they're biased or a combination thereof.
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And that's why I'm thrilled when we can bypass the
liberal media and go directly to the people again. Reform
California has a whole digital news podcast information program that
we spend a lot of time putting out news stories
so that you can share them on your social media platforms.
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That's why I'm here sitting in for my good friend
John Is. I want you to hear the truth. But
here's the thing. You need to share the truth with
all your friends and family. And that's why I go
to that website, Reform California dot org. Sign up at
the bottom because anyone who signs up and is part
of the Reform California movement. Every Friday at nine am,
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you get a weekly wrap of all the news stories
we put out and you can share them with your friends.
And a lot of times it goes into why your
gas prices are high, breaking down the California state gas tax,
why are the utility rates double the national average, and
how the government did it to you? Or why insurance
when it goes up, politicians are glad because they're getting
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more money. And you share these stories with Democrat friends
and neighbors because we don't do it in a partisan way.
We really just present the facts, and a lot of
them are now waking up and realizing the Democrat politicians
of this state have literally betrayed all of us. They
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have been scamming us so sales tax, gas tax, insurance rates.
Why are they so expensive? But we have thieves for politicians.
Short answer, all right, keep them coming talk back feature
on the iHeartRadio app. We will get to as many
of those submissions as possible, having fun with I mean,
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that was a softball, guys. You guys holding back on
the hard stuff. I want. I want the hard stuff.
So next hour, I want you to give me some
hard ones. We're gonna be talking about homelessness in our
next hour, and how billions of dollars have been literally
laundered by politicians to their campaign contributors. We've got the receipts.
But first News with Eileen Gonzales and the KFI twenty
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four hour Newsroom.
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