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Democratic Deja-vu . . . Ouch!

Well they’re at it again! It’s deja-vu!

Who’s at what?

The Democratic legislature in California is at it again – doing their best to figure out how to raise taxes on Californians without going to the ballot box. Last month they slammed through a new gas tax in order to repair roads, etc. because the money (from prior gas taxes) that was allocated for that purpose seemed to have “disappeared”! The new boondoggle in the California legislature (SB 562) is the attempt to push through a bill that would establish a “single payer” health care system in California.

In the interest of clarity, we need to explain that the term, “single payer”. It is another clever attempt by liberals to disguise what is really is. What the term really means is that payments are coming from a single fund, and this single fund is going to be funded by . . . Guess who? – the tax payers!

Okay, in a perfect world, everybody could have “everything” – including free healthcare. However the real world is not a perfect world, and to make matters even worse on the left coast, the politicians in Sacramento only seem to function on an emotional level. They do not think! I sometimes wonder if these Democratic politicians have developed an allergy to logic, as very little logical thinking actually occurs in our State Capital!

So let’s assume that SB 562 passes, how much is it going to cost?

On 5/25/17, SB 562 passed the Senate Appropriations Committee on a 5-2 party line vote, and this was before the cost was known! This sounds like the infamous Pelosi-ism, “you have to pass this bill in order to find out what is in it”!  It would seem common-sense to at least have an estimate of how much something was going to cost before charging ahead full-bore. But then again this is the uber liberal Democratic Senate of California.

The first cost assessment was $400 billion per year! . . . Ouch!!

Even optimistically assuming that half of this annual cost would be covered from other means, this yearly cost would be more than the upcoming total California yearly budget! . . . Ouch!!

So let’s assume that SB 562 passes, how is it going to be paid for?

How is this “extra” approximately $200 billion per year going to be raised? At this moment nobody knows! Will it be hocus-pocus? Is the Democratic legislature going to pass SB 562 without knowing how it is going to be paid for? Come on, they may be Democrats but they are not stupid. They know full well how they anticipate paying for this . . . by raising taxes . . . Ouch!!

Back in 2006 & 2008 a similar bill, SB 840, was passed by the legislature in California, only to be vetoed twice by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. If the present SB 562 passes through the legislature can we hope for deja-vu?

Can we pin all of our hopes on Governor Jerry Brown acting as The Terminator? . . . Ouch!!

 

 

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