A proposed Assembly Constitutional Amendment by Assemblymen Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, and Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, would create a tax surcharge on California companies making more than $1 million so that half of their federal tax cut would instead go to programs that benefit low-income and middle-class families."
Wow they can tax all they want there never going to get enough.
More will follow. Would the last employer leaving California please turn out the lights?
Maybe all the businesses in CA should shutdown for a month or two...
When I lived in Wyoming 40 years ago we had that same opinion about Colorado even then......or at least the front range.
Minnesota for example..
In a surprise announcement at the 2018 SHOT Show, gunmaker Weatherby revealed that they will be leaving the state of California, where they have been based since their founding in 1945. The company’s new home will be Sheridan, Wyoming, the sixth largest city in the state, nestled beside the Bighorn Mountains, and close to the border with Montana. The move was announced with little notice on the floor during the afternoon of the show on Monday, with the Wyoming Business Council in attendance. Adam Weatherby, founder Roy Weatherby’s grandson, cited strong economic incentives from the Wyoming Business Council, as well as more freedom to develop new products without onerous legal restrictions as reasons for leaving California.
Weatherby began with gunsmith Roy Weatherby, who became a major influence on the sporting and hunting rifle market. Weatherby’s developments in high velocity magnum cartridges with a high ratio of propellant to bore diameter set a trend in the industry that continues today. His .300 Weatherby Magum endures today as a factory round, and rounds like the .300 Winchester Magnum and 7mm Remington Magnum prove the popularity of his original concept. Today, the company he founded makes a line of premium hunting bolt actions and precision rifles that carry on the name.
Reminds me of Agent Smith in “The Matrix” when he’s interrogating Morpheus. Just replace the word humans with liberals.
“The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we... are the cure.”
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
From link:
"...Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000..."
God bless, Steve
Reason Assistant Editor Christian Britschgi has been hot on the trail of one of my favorite stories of the new year. Yesterday he reported on an absurd California bill that would criminalize offering plastic straws to restaurant patrons. If the bill passed, waiters would have to wait for customers to ask for a straw or face potential jail time. Yes, jail time.
So, what kind of environmental crisis justifies such a draconian step? How about the “fact” that Americans are using a staggering 500 million straws per day. That’s more than one straw per American, per day. That’s a lot of straws. That’s a lot of plastic.
But don’t tell Britschgi that a fact is too good to check. He checked, and the results were . . . hilarious:
The 500 million figure is often attributed to the National Park Service; it in turn got it from the recycling company Eco-Cycle.
Eco-Cycle is unable to provide any data to back up this number, telling Reason that it was relying on the research of one Milo Cress. Cress—whose Be Straw Free Campaign is hosted on Eco-Cycle’s website—tells Reason that he arrived at the 500 million straws a day figure from phone surveys he conducted of straw manufacturers in 2011, when he was just 9 years old.
What the actual heck? Surely this statistic isn’t in widespread use. Surely a California legislator was simply relying on poor staff work. Right?
Well no, Britschgi did more digging and found that at least 15 major news organizations had used the 9-year-old’s work, including prestige outlets like CNN, the Washington Post, Time, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. The stat has also been touted by the Sierra Club and the National Park Service.
Reading some of the articles, it looks as if the citation of the statistic in one authoritative place — like the National Park Service — was enough for citations elsewhere. This is at least partly understandable. Journalists rely on information from government agencies all the time, and it’s proper to use a statistic and cite a seemingly-authoritative source. But no one looked at a number that big and wondered if it was bogus? The National Park Service looked at it and said, “Yup, seems right”? It seems absurdly high.
Good on Christian Britschgi for doing the legwork that other reporters failed to do. Now, let’s ask the important question. Does California want to jail waiters to halt a crisis created by the environmental research of a 9-year-old?
Paul Zeidan and his many faces says, "YES!!!"
