With the state facing bankruptcy, with voters having (just eight months ago) shown an aversion to tax hikes, even in San Francisco, a state Senator from that city, Jay Leno, er, sorry, thinking this story was a joke, I thought of another guy with the same last name, Mark Leno introduced a bill to create “a single-payer” health system which “would cost California an estimated $210 billion in its first year.”
And get this, Leno doesn’t know how we’re going to pay for this, so his “bill would create a commission to decide how to pay for the system, at a cost this year of more than $1 million.” No, I’m not kidding you. This is not material from the monologue of the other Leno. It’s from an actual news article.
So, we’ve got a state facing a financial crisis. A public turning against big-government initiatives, particularly on health care. And a California Democrat introduces legislation to move full-speed ahead on such a boondoggle. And Leno’s not alone: “The [California] Senate Appropriations Committee voted 6-3 along party lines, with Democrats in favor of the proposal, which will be considered by the full Senate next week.”
Maybe those Democrats are Rovian plants, voting this way in order to create a better atmosphere for Republicans in the Golden State. After all, just such a strategy worked so well in Massachusetts.
Or maybe it’s something else. “Old socialist habits,” writes Michelle Malkin, alerting us to this article, “die hard.”
Well, all the nations deadbeats would flock to California, anyone making money in California would flee…so it would be fantastic for the rest of the country! I say do it!
Then, when California collapses, as it will, we can give it back to Mexico. Can we just start the border fence now?
I would hate to leave the state that My wife has lived in since she was 2, and where my kid was born, and where I choose to live, but I will move if those idiots up in Sacramento pass such a law. at this point, the only block move intelligent people in this state have is to elect either Meg or Steve (personally I go with Meg).
AAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Morons.
What planet? What drugs are they taking? Can these idiots do basic arithmetic?
$210 billion divided by a population of 30 million = $7,000 each for every man, woman, and child.
Since a fair chuck of the 30 million don’t work (kids, retirees, stay-at-home parents), it would have to be one heluva payroll tax. I certainly wouldn’t look at California’s government to increase efficiencies… and where does this guy think the feds are going to get the money?
Does he really think that taxpayers from other states are going to sign up to pay for this?
In CA ILL NY MI, they keep making the same dumb mistakes, but they don’t learn, they are clueless. It’s got a lot to do with the liberal public school system.
California’s total annual state budget is $85 billion.
This plan will almost triple that while imposing a massive tax on businesses.
I wonder what a Republican Assembly will look like?
Hey, I have a brilliant idea, those of you who are damned to have America become like Socialist France, if you love that life style so much, why not just move there, and leave Americans, and America alone.
I’d be willing to buy you a one way ticket too. I’m tired of a small minority pushing so much anti American policies. Wake up, and be grateful you live here or get the heck out of here.