在民主党州长加文·纽森（D）的政策下，加利福尼亚州继续成为生活和经商成本最高的地方之一。加州民众支付的汽油和电费位居全美最高。加州家庭每加仑汽油比全国平均水平高出近2.00美元，柴油每加仑则超过8美元。住房难以负担。税收失控。家庭依赖的商品价格不断上涨。萨克拉门托没有解决这场可负担性危机，反而让情况更加恶劣。
Under Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) policies, California continues to be one of the most expensive places to live and do business. We pay some of the nation’s highest prices for gas and electricity. California families pay nearly $2.00 more per gallon than the national average for gas, and more than $8 per gallon for diesel. Housing is unaffordable. Taxes are out of control. And the goods families depend on keep getting more expensive. Instead of addressing this affordability crisis, Sacramento is making it worse.
加州空气资源委员会是一个非选举产生的州级机构，它实施了两项大多数加州劳动者可能从未听说过的强制规定。这些规定推高了从汽油到杂货等一切商品的成本。本质上，它们充当了一种隐性气候税，直接转嫁给消费者。
The California Air Resources Board is an unelected state agency that has imposed two mandates most working Californians have probably never heard of. These mandates are raising the cost of everything, from gas to groceries. In essence, they function as a hidden climate tax that gets passed directly to consumers.
这两项规定分别是“靠泊船舶”规则和“商业港口船舶”规则。大多数人不知道它们的存在，但每个辛勤工作的家庭都在加油站或超市感受到其影响。
They are the “Vessels At-Berth” rule and the “Commercial Harbor Craft” rule. Most don’t know they exist, but every hardworking family feels the impacts at the gas pump or the supermarket.
“靠泊船舶”规定要求加州港口的船舶关闭发动机，并使用加州空气资源委员会批准的排放控制技术。问题是，该技术成本高昂，即使船舶想要遵守，所需规模的技术也不存在。结果是每艘船舶每天面临约5万美元的罚款，这些罚款最终会以结账时更高的价格形式转嫁给消费者。
The Vessels At-Berth regulation requires ships in California ports to shut off their engines and use California Air Resources Board-approved emission-control technology. The problem: the technology is costly and even if ships want to comply, the technology doesn’t exist at the scale needed. The result is fines of around $50,000 per vessel per day, which ultimately gets passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices at checkout.
同样，“商业港口船舶”规定强迫运营商在渔船等船舶上安装昂贵的新设备。航运公司随后将这些费用通过供应链转嫁出去。
Similarly, the Commercial Harbor Craft regulation forces operators to install expensive new equipment on vessels like fishing boats. Shipping companies then pass those expenses through the supply chain.
在这两项强制规定下，劳动者家庭最终为一项他们从未投票赞成、也永远不会在收据上看到的税款买单。
With these two mandates, working families end up paying a tax they never voted for and will never see listed on a receipt.
加州空气资源委员会（California Air Resources Board）自身的分析显示，其“靠泊排放”强制令（At-Berth mandate）的成本高达 23 亿美元，而其“商业港口船舶”规则（Commercial Harbor Craft rule）将再增加 25 亿美元以上的成本，这些成本落在海运经营者身上，最终由消费者承担。
California Air Resources Board’s own analysis pegs the cost of its At-Berth mandate at $2.3 billion, and its Commercial Harbor Craft rule would pile on more than $2.5 billion, costs that land on maritime operators and, ultimately, consumers.
在萨克拉门托（注：指加州州政府）不断让生活变得更昂贵、更难以负担之际，我们正在努力为加州民众降低成本。
While Sacramento keeps making life more costly and more unaffordable, we are fighting to cut costs for Californians.
这就是我们提出两项联合决议的原因。得益于众议院共和党的领导，这两项决议均已通过众议院。
That is why we introduced two joint resolutions. Thanks to the leadership of House Republicans, both resolutions passed the House of Representatives.
我们的立法将推翻这些强制令，为辛勤工作的加州民众提供减负。它们关乎常识与可负担性。利害攸关。
Our legislation would overturn these mandates and provide relief to working Californians. They are about commonsense and affordability. The stakes are significant.
这些强制令冲击的是维持加州港口和经济运转的船只。我们应当帮助它们节省成本、高效运营，而非用隐性气候税将其压垮。
These mandates hit the vessels that keep California’s ports and economy operating. We should be helping them save costs and run efficiently, not crushing them with hidden climate taxes.
加州港口对中央谷地和北加州至关重要。取消限制货物通过港口流动的措施，将支持本地企业、保持供应链畅通，并最终全面降低成本。
California’s ports are critical to the Central Valley and Northern California. Removing measures that limit the movement of goods through our ports will support local businesses, keep our supply chains moving, and ultimately bring down costs across the board.
事实很简单。我们都依赖加州港口。进入全国的集装箱货物近 40% 都经由这些港口。当萨克拉门托让航运变得更昂贵时，加州乃至全国家庭都要为此买单。
The truth is simple. We all depend on California’s ports. Nearly 40 percent of all containerized cargo entering the nation passes through them. When Sacramento makes shipping more expensive, families in California and across the country pay the price.
清洁空气和可负担的生活不应是相互竞争的目标。加州民众理应两者兼得。
Clean air and affordable living should not be competing goals. Californians deserve both.
众议院已采取行动。现在参议院必须通过这些决议并送交总统签署。
The House has acted. Now the Senate must pass these resolutions and send them to the president’s desk.
我们将继续奋斗，阻止萨克拉门托的隐性气候税从辛勤工作的家庭手中夺走更多血汗钱。
We will keep fighting to stop Sacramento’s hidden climate taxes from taking more hard-earned money from working families.
文斯·方（Vince Fong）代表加州第 20 国会选区，詹姆斯·加拉格尔（James Gallagher）代表加州第 1 国会选区，均为美国众议院议员。
Vince Fong represents California’s 20th Congressional District and James Gallagher represents California’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.