Wednesday, May 22, 2024

NO NEW TAXES ..... WE WILL JUST INCREASE THE OLD TAXES

By Bob Walsh

 

Political Cartoon U.S. California exodus Gavin Newsom taxes


The God-Emperor of the formerly great state of California, Gavin "God I Want To Be President" Newsom, has a problem.  The state's economy, while large, is heading for the shitter.  We have enough money to hire money and provide health care for illegal aliens but we don't have money to fix the goddamn roads.

The state budget is in the hole.  By at least $38 billion dollars.  Probably more.  But Gavin needs to be in a position so he can pretend he is not going to raise taxes.  So instead he is just going to increase the existing taxes.  That is the same as "No New Taxes" in his rule book.

He keeps crowing that the state would, if it were an independent country, be the sixth largest economy on the planet.  That might even be true.  But people are fleeing the state, and the people who are fleeing the state are the ones who pay the taxes.  Roughly half of the population of the state pay no income tax.  They are net tax consumers, not tax payers.  It takes YEARS to get the permits and permissions to start businesses.  It takes YEARS to build a new building.   You have to pay taxes and fees and assessments.  It never ends.

Now they are looking SERIOUSLY at a road use tax.  The gas tax, which is the largest in the country, is SUPPOSED TO BE going to fix the roads.  In actuality it goes to hiring lawyers for illegal aliens to fight deportation.  Plus they are pissed that the electric cars don't pay gas taxes but are harder on the roads than are gas cars due to their weight.  Right just now they are pretending to say that they will shitcan the gas tax and implement a mileage tax in it's place.  Nobody believes that will happen.  What MAY occur is that BOTH taxes will be in place.

And the stupid fucks who vote in California, some of who are actual citizens and entitled to vote, keep sending the same incompetent windbags back to Sacramento year after year after year.

You might not get the government you deserve, but you sure as hell get the government you tolerate.  

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