California Living The Good Life

All of our interaction with the government seems very normal.  A bill for property taxes, a bill for car registration, car insurance, and other items are all the norm. If you own a car, and want to keep it legal, you need to pay for plates and insurance.  Go to a store and pay for your merchandise and walk out.

In California it is different.  If you are homeless, there are no property taxes (kind of obvious).  No license, no car insurance, no big deal; you won’t go to jail.  When you get a ticket, forget about it.  Steal under 900 dollars and you will not go to jail.  If you shoot someone and there is a witness, they will release you until the trial.  It’s not rocket science; if the witness can’t testify, you don’t go to prison.

What is different for responsible working people?  If you have a job, a family and a home, you cannot behave like that; the government can screw you over. They can foreclose on you house for nonpayment of taxes. If you don’t pay your traffic ticket, the government will go after you. They know you have money.  The threat of jail could mean you lose your job. From there, you can join the homeless.

Notice, the only ones that have to comply to the laws, are people with money, homes, a family, cars, and a job. If you are homeless and, on the streets, government doesn’t give a damn about you.  You pay no taxes and if they have to lock you up, it costs the city real money. Jail is a service that returns no money back to the government.  It is an expense.

So, what does it all mean?  If you are here illegally, you get out of jail free. If you are broke, you don’t have to pay things like fines or report to court for physical offences.   But God help you if you are a bonified taxpayer who has money and is a scofflaw. You will pay, because government can ruin your life; they know you have money and they can mess with you.

The bureaucracy is not stupid, the state government assumes the taxpayers are extremely stupid.  And they are right.  They legalized crime, so don’t act surprised by the results.

How do you fix this? The poor can live and exist outside of the rules for the middle class without punishment. The poor can ignore the system and there is no repercussion for doing so.  There is no feedback from the state government stating that the deadbeats are not paying their assessed charges. Taxes go up and people move out. Is that the solution to the problem? The answer, sadly is yes.  Most problems solve themselves.  The California State government is broken and cannot be fixed. Don’t tell them, there is nothing worse than political indignation. I might not get my 20 ballots for president in the next election.