Monday, October 30, 2017

CALIFORNIA MUST RAISE TAXES TO PAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE and CRIME TIDAL WAVE


California’s November 1 Gas Tax Increase: Just the Beginning




Californians are bracing for the first phase of the SB-1 gas tax and vehicle registration hikes, which could help boost prices by up to 29 cents per gallon over the next 32 months.

Governor Jerry Brown took a huge risk for the California Democrat Party by signing into law the state’s largest registration and gasoline tax increase in history. The last time the highly volatile taxes ad fees were increased was in 2002 when the Democrats increased the vehicle registration fee increase from $46 to $158. That resulted in 9.4 million voters recalling Democrat Governor Gray Davis, just 11 months later after he was re-elected, making him only the second state governor recalled in American history. Voters further punished Democrats by electing Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill the vacancy.
The new increases are contained in a law officially titled “SB-1 Transportation Funding” and signed by Governor Brown on April 28. The University of California Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies poll found in June that 58 percent of voters were opposed the bill and only 35 percent supported the legislation.
Californians currently pay $3.03 per gallon, on average, for regular unleaded gasoline, versus about $2.47 a gallon in the rest of the nation. That’s $0.56 per gallons higher, on average, due to an array of hidden fees to fight pollution, as well as the 40.62 cents per gallon state gas tax, the fifth-highest in the nation according to the Tax Foundation.
Gov. Brown and his Democrat allies in the California legislature hope to do a better job than Davis in managing the anger from the highly regressive tax increase, which will especially pound the middle class and the poor by phasing in the pain over the next three years.
SB-1 will begin with a 12 cent per gallon tax increase on November 1. That works out to a brutal annual cost of about $1,200 per California family. But the full increase will not initially be felt, because Nov. 1 is also the date the  seasonal surcharge for California’s reformulated gasoline summer blend, which amounts to several extra cents per gallon, rolls off.
Moreover, SB-1’s total family pain may be much higher than 12 cents, over time, thanks to the following deadlines: 1) a value-based transportation improvement registration fee kicks in January 1, 2018; 2) the price-based excise tax resets on July 1, 2019; and 3) a new zero emissions vehicle fee begins on July 1, 2020.
State Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) has already qualified a ballot initiative to kill the gas tax that will appear along with what he hopes will be his candidacy for governor on the November 2018 ballot.
Orange County Republicans have also successfully qualified an effort to put a recall of State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who voted for SB-1, on the next ballot.
The Democrat-controlled California State Legislature tried to rescue Newman by changing state recall rules with the passage of SB 117. But the effort was blocked by the courts in August.


JUDICIAL WATCH:
ILLEGALS VOTING IN MASSIVE NUMBERS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA

''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."


Antonio Villaraigosa Reveals Game Plan for Beating Gavin Newsom Using Latino Vote



Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s strategy to take on Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom — who is leading in the 2018 race for governor — appears to be focused on turning out Latino and working-class voters.
Last week, Villaraigosa’s campaign released a 12-minute video in which he spoke in Spanish, with English subtitles, for the first two minutes during a visit to the Mexican border. Villaraigosa was there with a group of volunteers, whom he referred to as “angels,” who were delivering water to immigrants illegally crossing into the United States.
“We’re delivering this water because more than 10,000 people have lost their lives crossing the border with their hopes — reuniting their family, working for what we know as the American Dream,” he said, after criticizing President Donald Trump’s “anti-immigration policy, anti-Mexican policy.”
The video was reportedly created by Mark Putnam, who produced a half-hour piece on Barack Obama for his 2008 presidential campaign.
Additionally, the San Francisco Chronicle notes that Villaraigosa plans to paint Lt. Gov. Newsom, who also served as mayor of San Francisco from 2004-2011, as an elitist, juxtaposing Newsom’s more comfortable upbringing with Villaraigosa’s more challenging childhood with a single mother and alcoholic father.
As mayor of San Francisco, Newsom won reelection with 74% of the vote.
Last month, the state Legislature’s California Latino Caucus endorsed Villaraigosa for governor. However, the nod will not be enough, by itself, to take him past Newsom.
For one, a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center found that Latinos comprise 39 percent of California’s population and that they make up an even smaller portion of its electorate. The San Francisco Chronicle notes: “Compounding the challenge for Villaraigosa is that typically, fewer Latinos and low-income voters participate in non-presidential elections, and their turnout rate is lower than that of the overall electorate.”
Another issue Villaraigosa could face is that fellow Latinos might not endorse or vote for him just because he shares common ancestry.
The Chronicle notes that “Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who served on the Los Angeles City Council while Villaraigosa was mayor, announced that he is endorsing Newsom” last Thursday.
Villaraigosa has less name recognition than Newsom and has far less cash in his campaign war chest. Villraigosa, has $4.4 million cash on hand, according to recent reports, while Newsom has $13 million in the bank.
An August poll released by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies showed Newsom leading the 2018 race with 26 percent of support among likely voters, a four-point improvement from May. That same poll had Republican San Diego businessman John Cox in second place with 11 percent favorability, followed by Villaraigosa in third place with 10 percent — down seven points since the previous poll.
The poll also had Orange County Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) at 9 percent.
Democrat Treasurer John Chiang, endorsed by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), and former state schools superintendent Delaine Eastin are also in the running. Chiang, with strong fundraising, appears to be more suited to put up a fight. However, one third of likely voters are still undecided as to who they will vote for in 2018.
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.



CALIFORNIA: MEXICO’S LOOTED WELFARE STATE
  
Adios, California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
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. 
The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion 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.

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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