The Rising Cost of Liberalism: California's Train and Water
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
California is a prime example of liberal left Democrat Party madness out of control, and ruining the lives of everyone not a ruling elitist establishment goon. At the rate we are going, the collapse of California has got to be on the horizon. The fate of Venezuela or Detroit would be merciful compared to what California is headed for, yet, drunk with their dreams of a utopian leftist agenda, the Democrats continue to destroy the State, tax by tax, and stupid expenditure by stupid expenditure. If ever there was an example on how not to run a governmental operation, California is it.
● Cost for California bullet train system rises to $77.3 billion
The price of the California liberal left bullet train that nobody will ride keeps going up and up and up. The newest price tag is $77.3 billion and could rise as high as $98.1 billion — an uptick of at least $13 billion from estimates two years ago.
All of this from a State that can’t even afford to fix its own roads, and has slammed motorists with gas taxes and Cap and Trade taxes, when we already have the highest gas prices in the country.
The high speed rail project is not only more expensive than originally planned, but it is also behind schedule. They originally told us it would be completed by 2025. Now they are talking 2029 for a partial system between San Francisco and Bakersfield, and 2033 before the full system is supposed to begin operating.
I am not holding my breath for anything to be done until after 2040.
And then, by then, California will have a legal population less than North Dakota’s, and plenty of illegal aliens who not only won’t be able to afford to ride the train, but even they will be out of work because of all of the farms being shut down by the train’s need for land.
Besides, by then the State of California will likely be in worse shape than Detroit and Venezuela combined.
All of these numbers the politicians keep throwing at us also don’t fully take into account the reality of rising costs, other potential delays, strident litigation and backlashes in communities where homes, businesses, farms and environmental preserves will have to give up land to the rail’s right-of-way.
And, no investors have appeared, as originally promised, either.
Early on, planners warned that the cost would be more than $100 billion. But Jerry Brown, California’s governor, didn’t like that estimate. So, he sought new estimates. And then, he deceptively sold those lower estimates to a gullible, and frankly foolish, public.
As for tickets to ride the train? Originally, they were talking $55 for a ticket. Now, they are saying it will be about $98 per trip. You can fly for less.
To make it all make sense, they will also need over a hundred and twenty thousand passengers per day . . . a pipe dream, at best.
The failed train will sink California, and become the failed legacy of Jerry Brown, and his merry band of idiot Democrats.
● California to Tax Drinking Water
High gas taxes, income taxes, and a high speed rail train nobody will ride are not the only rabbits that Sacramento politicians are pulling out of their high-quarters. Now, they also wish to tax drinking water.
The plan is a 95-cent per month tax on water bills in California. The proposal is Senate Bill 623, which would also add a new water connection tax, fertilizer tax and milk tax . . . all, they say, to raise about $200 million for a new “Safe and Affordable Water” fund.
How about instead of pouring billions into the high speed rail, they just build more dams and reservoirs?
Winston Churchill once said, “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
This year alone, California lawmakers have spent tens of millions of dollars on pet projects with no statewide benefits.
Source: http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-rising-cost-of-liberalism.html
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