California Gov Bans Poor People From Owning Cars
"My own belief is that California has a unique place on the planet. It's been a place of dreams. We can pursue a path of benign energy," Governor Brown once said.
Brown is gone, but his idiot Spaceship Earth vision lives on.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for California to ban new gasoline-fueled vehicles within 15 years in a bid to combat climate change and make the state the first in the nation to stop sales of cars with internal combustion engines.
In other words cars. As most people know them and own them.
California Business Roundtable President Rob Lapsley said in an interview that the "radical step" to ban internal combustion engines "makes no sense" and is a rushed decision, with no guarantee of affordability for many who live in an already-expensive state.
Oh it's easy.
This will gate off car ownership to the sort of people who can afford electric cars. Tesla people and such. Illegal aliens will go on driving wrecks with no insurance, registration, inspection stickers, etc.
So there will be two classes of car owners in California.
1. Wealthy people
2. Criminals
Working class and poor people won't be able to afford cars. And in a state where car ownership is pretty much a prerequisite for getting a job or buying groceries, that's an economic death sentence.
Predictably, Democrats will discover a right for the welfare class to own electric cars, which the middle class will be taxed to provide. And anyone who isn't in the welfare class will be squeezed further out of a failing state.
“With increasing homelessness, a soft approach to
criminal prosecution, and the ongoing embracing of illegal immigration, violent
crimes are increasing after having seen a reduction the past few years.”
P.F. WHALEN
Undeterred, on September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens. Balance sheet be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens. P.F. WHALEN
California: The Golden State
in Utter Decay
By P.F. Whalen
California
is a mess; no secret there. But the degree of decline that befalls
it, and the quickness with which that decline is moving, seems to be largely
ignored, particularly by Californians themselves. The nation's most
populous state, and arguably its most naturally beautiful, is falling apart
virtually everywhere we look. Yet state and local governments not
only insist on moving forward with leftist policies, but continually double
down by moving even farther left, and the state's voters return them to office
with ever-increasing electoral margins. California's current
approach to virtually all aspects of society — the economy, environment, legal
system and culture — is unsustainable, and the time for reckoning is
rapidly approaching.
The
current crisis in California that is getting the most national attention is the
plague of wildfires throughout much of the northern part of the
state. Such fires have ravaged the area for
millennia, long before the presence of any European settlers, but that has not
stopped California leftists and their media from pointing fingers at climate
change and President Trump. Avoiding responsibility for a crisis by
blaming anyone and anything with even a remote chance of culpability is the
California way — which leads to a failure to develop real
solutions. None of California's leaders, least of all Democratic
governor Gavin Newsom, have accepted any responsibility for the government's
role in the fires. Evidence clearly shows that the decision by the state to
revive "fire suppression" efforts, a practice that essentially delays
the inevitable and results in even larger wildfires (and was mostly
discontinued in the 1960s), has been a major contributor to the magnitude of
this year's fires. But has the government of California even paused
to reconsider the strategy? Sadly, no.
Wildfires,
unfortunately, are among the least of California's
woes. Homelessness in the state has become a major problem, and one
that is having a significant impact on the quality of life for
taxpayers. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article published last
December, "[w]hile the latest counts compiled by the federal government
show that America's homeless population is growing again after more than a
decade of declines, the entire national increase and more can be attributed to
California alone." In other words, homelessness continues to be
on the decline in the U.S. if we exclude California. So how does
California plan on addressing the problem? A bill passed by the
state's Legislature earlier this month will empower Governor Newsom to appoint
a "Homelessness Czar." Government actions, including
regulations which aggressively target landlords and programs that provide
handouts enticing the homeless to settle in the state, have perpetuated the
homeless situation, but more taxpayer dollars and government interference is
always the solution for California. Got a problem? Throw
money at it, and let the government make it worse.
With
increasing homelessness, a soft approach to criminal prosecution, and the
ongoing embracing of illegal immigration, violent crimes are increasing after
having seen a reduction the past few years. According to The Trace,
"homicides are sharply up this year" in California as a whole, and
cities such as Oakland, with a 26% increase, have seen a significant
increase in the number of murders. With the jump in violent crimes,
what steps has California's government taken to reduce certain
crimes? They recently passed the controversial bill S.B. 145, which will ultimately
end up reducing accountability and sentences for adults who sexually assault
children as young as 14. What a brilliant idea. Apparently,
California's leadership believes that the pedophile community had been treated
unfairly.
In
spite of an abundance of bad news items hitting California on a regular basis,
the most ominous challenge is undoubtedly the fiscal time bomb that looms, and
whose ticking grows louder by the day. Already one of the highest taxed states in the
U.S., California had a reported government debt of
over $1.5 trillion as of 2017 — long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and an
amount that has surely increased dramatically since. Undeterred, on
September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to
Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and
a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned
income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens. Balance sheet
be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens.
Increasing
spending and decreasing revenue is a lousy recipe for getting one's fiscal
house in order — particularly one that is already a disaster. The
state government appears to be counting on an eventual federal bailout from its
financial predicament, but that help is not going to happen, nor should it.
California
industries have recognized the signals and are taking action. High-profile
companies and leaders have announced their plans to leave the state or have
openly proclaimed their considerations for the idea. Media outlet
The Daily Wire, with co-owner Ben Shapiro, recently announced its plan to move to
Nashville; podcast giant Joe Rogan is taking his ball and moving to Texas; and Elon
Musk is moving Tesla's
headquarters out-of-state, and possibly manufacturing operations as
well. Other businesses will surely follow, as the hostility
toward industry through taxes and oppressive regulations continues
unimpeded. State lawmakers are not intimidated by the idea of losing
millions of dollars in revenue and have recently taken the bold step of
adding a layer of government regulations to existing and would-be
businesses. Another bill recently passed by the state legislature
will "mandate ethnic, racial or LGBT diversity on corporate boards" —
more government intervention in the private sector in the name of virtue and
another assault on the philosophy of meritocracy.
California
has some of the most appealing weather in the world, but pleasant weather goes
only so far. Residents enjoy the state's natural wonders such as the
lovely Napa Valley, Yosemite National Park, and the glorious pacific coast
highway, but they have been choosing to leave anyway at
an increasing rate in a phenomenon that is being called "The California
Exodus." The state population decreased by almost 200,000 in
2018, and over 28,000 left the San Francisco Bay area alone in a single quarter
last year. Inevitably, the question that Californians have to
consider is this: while it may be bad now, is there a chance it is going to get
better?
California,
the bluest of blue states, has rising crime and
homelessness. California has fearsome wildfires and rolling
electrical blackouts due to government mismanagement of its forests and energy
systems. California has an ever-increasing budget deficit with no
end in sight. Yet California's tone-deaf politicians continue to
enjoy immense support from their oblivious electorate. Many
residents cherish the song lyric that laments, "Going to California with
an aching in my heart." Unfortunately, the time has come for
many to recognize reality, and to leave California with a similar
aching. California is decaying before our eyes, and it is not going
to get better.
P.F. Whalen is a conservative blogger at TheBlueStateConservative.com. His
work has appeared in multiple publications, including American Thinker, the
Western Journal, and Human Events. Follow him on Twitter at @pf_whalen.
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Adios,
Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian
laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving
the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens,
now estimated to number over 2.6 million (BLOG: THE NUMBER IS CLOSER TO 15
MILLION ILLEAGLS). The Federation for American
Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion (DATED: NOW
ABOUT $35 BILLION YEARLY AND THAT IS ON THE STATE LEVEL ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT
MORE) on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education,
Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
Liberals
claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true.
It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute
only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion,
or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg,
claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to
support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting
them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If
illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way,
California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens
has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who
entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of
the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in
2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those
statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer,
they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown
administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes.
That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a
“sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the
border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US
Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will
emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights
and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either
form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing
Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our
own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to
attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that
cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor
Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With
over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt
compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the
DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University
of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for
illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations
all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers
hear about this program. I can’t afford college
education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a
college education.
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