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Originally Posted by astronaut x
"Criticize California all you want, but the air quality has improved dramatically over the last 20 years," Kloza said. "It has cleaned the air." |
"Along with the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, Californians now pay 58.2 cents in excise taxes per gallon. Like all other states with sales taxes, California “taxes the tax” by applying the combined local and state sales tax, which ranges from 7.25 to 9.75 percent, on top of the gasoline tax.Jan 14, 2018"
https://fee.org/articles/californias...-to-the-roads/
You do the match on that $3 a gallon. You're paying over a $1 per gallon in taxes.
In TN we just have the "hidden tax" They aren't sales taxing on top of that..