How’s that “The Bigger the Government the better” stuff going?
Well, as Gov Jerry Brown is in China to ride their bullet train (which has its own corruption scandal), Moonbeam’s “Prison realignment” program (AB109) enacted to save money, allegedly is producing more dead bodies
The case of a convicted felon who allegedly stabbed a woman to death at a California park-and-ride has exposed flaws in Gov. Jerry Brown’s controversial plan to give local governments responsibility for nonviolent prisoners
California — a state of great natural resources where cities are going bankrupt, non-coastal areas have unemployment 13-30% and both businesses and citizens are fleeing. And our legislature, with a super-majority of socialist Democrats, are ever on-the-ball with addressing the serious issues, like introducing a bill to strip the Boy Scouts of their non-profit status.
Bear Banana Republic, indeed.
Every couple of years I travel from Philly to Sonoma and Napa to re-stock my collection of Russian River Pinots, Dry Creek Zins, and Napa Cabs (I hope the PLCB doesn’t monitor this site). This year I was able to spend a week in early March in northern CA, visiting my favorite vineyards.
At one very large vineyard, the pourer in the tasting room told me that California is operating in the black with several millions of dollars in surplus, and that this is attributable to Jerry Brown, who is a brilliant man, and who was able to turn the state around simply by increasing sales tax by 1%. This didn’t jibe with anything I had heard, but I don’t pay that mush attention to CA’s economy.
At a much smaller, family run farm/vineyard in Napa, I asked the owner’s daughter if what I was told was true.
She said that was crazy, that Brown raised state taxes by 3%, that they were paying nearly 13% in state tax, on top of property taxes, and that the family, which has been making wine for five generations at the farm, would likely have to pull out of CA in the near future because of the intense economic pressure.
How is it possible that these two statements can be so opposite? What kind of kool-aid was the first person drinking?
Strange world, isn’t it?
What kind of kool-aid was the first person drinking?
Fermented Demunist jizz.
Steph
That “surplus” is paper budget projection for this year … not actual spending (fiscal year ends June 30) and the idiot is ignoring that CA is the most indebted state in the nation and is playing a ponzi scheme with bonds
I hope the police don’t run out of ammo shooting all the bad guys Jerry let out.
Wow Steph. Sounds like that first vinyard was a bit of a Potempkin village.
steph
since you stated the first vintner is “large” and the smaller one feels they need to escape, I’m thinking there maybe some cronyism involved. California Democrats just love to reward the compliant big businesses with special tax breaks and helping them hamstring the uppity competitors.
California debt is becoming safer as the state economy rebounds and Governor Jerry Brown and lawmakers reduce long-term obligations,
That’s three lies right there.
individual income-tax payments have exceeded both projections and 2012 levels before the April 15 filing deadline
Thanks mostly to the Prop 30 tax increase on higher earners, which was retroactive back to the start of the 2012 tax year, when higher earners had made plans based on the previous lower tax rate.
I predict that the 2013 income tax revenue will be well below their projections, now that higher earners are able to make appropriate adjustments to lower their tax bill (and/or consider Prop 30 the last straw and finally move to a state with a more hospitable tax environment).
It’s no longer a question of “if” California’s economy implodes, it’s “when”.
The first vintner was large by my standards, selling about 200,000 cases per year. Insignificant to the 80 million cases sold by Gallo. But 100-fold greater than the 2000 cases sold by the small family farm (who had fantastic cabs, by the way).
It was odd however, since at the first vintner I noticed a sign on the street that read “Danger, Ice on Road” which was absurd. I remarked about the sign to the pourer and he went into a long diatribe about how the sign was put there a year or more ago, but that the stupid state (it being a state road, not a county road) never removed the sign.
Then he told me how great Brown is and how well run the state is now that he’s the Gov.
Crazy talk, I tell you.
since you stated the first vintner is “large” and the smaller one feels they need to escape, I’m thinking there maybe some cronyism involved. California Democrats just love to reward the compliant big businesses with special tax breaks and helping them hamstring the uppity competitors.
It’s a protection racket, essentially.
Outrageous! Gadsden Flag Removed By New York Town For Being An “Offensive” Tea Party Symbol
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If they can’t deny the humanity of a fetus it gets in the way of diminishing the humanity of an old person, or a political opponent.
You can’t make a jar of mayonnaise without breaking a few eggs.