Friday, April 7, 2017

The Headline: Both houses of the California legislature passed a 12-cent gasoline tax hike on Thursday, meeting Governor Jerry Brown’s deadline to provide an estimated $52 billion in new revenues, ostensibly for transportation infrastructure.



Yet, this may be the point where the tables turn, and California begins to follow the rest of the nation back to sanity.   That should be the real headline.

The exodus of productive Californians and the middle class will accelerate, and the resulting Detroitization of the Golden State will red pill the voters.  Or so I can hope.

16 comments:

  1. My house goes up for sale next week. Depending on how long it takes me to get a buyer - they're not going to get much of that tax increase money from me. Sorry to leave you behind, CW, but the rats are leaving a sinking ship.

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    1. I stay for a few more years and report on the state of the Golden State from inside the belly of the beast.

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  2. Good on ya, lad. I'd offer to drop ship you some extra ammo, but Kali has outlawed that too. I was a resident of California my entire life until November '15. Am now a Texas resident. There are things I miss like the High Sierra and the coast. However, my last fill-up was $1.99 (Costco) and if I walk out on the front lawn with one of my AR's, nobody cares (or they are curious what make it is).

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    1. Nirvana. Valhalla. Shangri-La!

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    2. It gets better. You can shop for electricity. There are many power companies to choose from. Time of year makes a difference. Now is not as good because we are headed for summer, when the devil lives in he77 and rents out Texas. Even so, there are any number of plans with total cost per kWh around 10 cents.

      I changed my plan in November. It is for one year and there is a cancelation fee.
      Up to 1000 kWh is 4.7 cents/kWh
      Every thing over that is 0.7 cents/kWh
      Period. That is my fixed cost for power. When the contract ends next November, I can sign on for another year, or shop for a better deal.
      In addition--
      Base charge is $6.95/month

      The delivery company is Oncor.
      Base charge of 5.25/month, plus 3.6 cents/kWh.

      As I recall, when we left Kalifornia, if you were in the third tier with the good folks at Pigs, Goats, and Elephants, the rate in that tier was 35 cents/kWh.

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  3. Bunch of whores, liars & thieves for sure!

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  4. $52 billion US equals $520 billion CA.

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  5. Or the cancer will spread beyond California's borders as the tools flee their disaster of a state and then try to make their new homes like their old one.

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  7. What 3 for3 said.

    This will lead to the destruction of Arizona and Texas, if they aren't careful.

    Californians seem to always flee to another state then try to make it like Kalifornia.

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  8. I don't tell people I'm from Cali, I just name the state (far from here) I was born in...

    Never thought I would buckle but, I'm gone as soon as it's possible.

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  9. Transportation infrastructure means bullet train to Bakersfield, nothing more.

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  10. Born & raised in CA, but won't be staying much longer. My sister's in TX, she says the place is almost like CA used to be. I don't want to leave, but I can't take any more watching my birthplace go downhill, so I'll be leaving.

    What I think of the demonrats that ruined this once-great State can't be printed. I hope they all burn in Hell forever.

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  11. Need a border wall on the west border of Texas to keep out the snowflakes. Move the company to Texas just leave the morons in Californication on the beach.

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  12. I sense hostility here toward the People's Republik...land of fruits and nuts.

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