{"id":956,"date":"2014-06-14T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:45:04","slug":"ca-screws-everyone-carbon-tax-wastes-money-bullet-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/ca-screws-everyone-carbon-tax-wastes-money-bullet-train\/","title":{"rendered":"CA screws everyone with carbon tax &#8211; wastes the money on bullet train"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/ca-screws-everyone-carbon-tax-wastes-money-bullet-train\/\" data-text=\"CA screws everyone with carbon tax &#038;%238211; wastes the money on bullet train\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>-CA screws everyone with carbon tax &#8211; wastes the money on bullet train<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no crisis so grave that it cannot be solved with higher taxes. \u00a0Or, in this case carbon offset fees. \u00a0You see, global warming is <em>so serious<\/em> that we have come up with a scheme whereby industries that generate carbon emissions (industries that coincidentally drive our economy) will need to buy &#8220;offsets&#8221; to allow them to continue their carbon emissions. \u00a0It&#8217;s a win-win! \u00a0They get to pay to stay in business and the State gets a $1 billion payday! \u00a0And you get to pay higher prices for electricity, gasoline and probabaly damn near everything you buy.<\/p>\n<p>I think the mafia used to have a program like that: &#8220;youse gets to pay us and then youse don&#8217;t get your legs broke. \u00a0Everybody wins.&#8221; \u00a0Then the government arrested, prosecuted and jailed the gangsters. \u00a0This is known as &#8220;eliminating the competition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The halls of the Capitol must be positively awash in the saliva of drooling legislators and lobbyists anticipating the new funding that awaits their pet projects. \u00a0There&#8217;s money a-waitin&#8217; to be spent! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2014\/06\/budget-deal-gives-25-percent-of-cap-and-trade-money-to-high-speed-rail.html\" target=\"_blank\">This week it was reported that as part of the budget agreement, California&#8217;s High Speed Rail would receive 25% of anticipated cap-and-trade revenue<\/a>. \u00a0<em>Anticipated<\/em> cap and trade revenue. \u00a0We&#8217;re going to spend <em>anticipated<\/em> money on an <em>imaginary<\/em> train. \u00a0We could just replace the state goverment with a Sim City game. \u00a0Jerry Brown&#8217;s not gonna stand for this foolishness, right? \u00a0He&#8217;s fiscal hawk! \u00a0He wants a rainy day fund! \u00a0Oh wait&#8230;the crazy train is Jerry Brown&#8217;s pet. \u00a0He wanted 33% of the cap-and-trade &#8220;windfall&#8221; to go to the Fresno to Lodi express. \u00a0Oh, snap &#8211; no adult in the room on this one.<\/p>\n<p>$250 Million probably won&#8217;t pay for the paper clips when this boondoggle gets underway. \u00a0This is like saying we need to spend $20 Billion to dig a giant hole to throw money in. \u00a0But the good news is <em>we get to keep throwing money into it&#8230;forever!<\/em> \u00a0And create hundreds of jobs! \u00a0Because &#8211; transportation! \u00a0Trains are the future!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet -CA screws everyone with carbon tax &#8211; wastes the money on bullet train There is no crisis so grave that it cannot be solved with higher taxes. \u00a0Or, in this case carbon offset fees. \u00a0You see, global warming is so serious that we have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}