By Rich Kozlovich
Let's face it. Jerry Brown has always been a loon. He's been governor twice and both times he's left office with California less better off, and they love him for it. Talk about loons. Here's the latest on the Moonbeam, and his latest burst of cognitive dissonance, an intellectual affliction everyone in California seemingly suffers from.
Gov. Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown's Warning to Fellow Democrats
Larry Elder Dec 20, 2018
Outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown recently said, "The weakness of the Republican Party has let the Democratic Party, I think, go get further out than I think the majority of people want." When a tax-spend-and-regulate Democrat who signed legislation making California the first "sanctuary state" says the Democrats have gotten too "further out" for the majority, that party would be wise to take notice. In the November elections, California Democrats won veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of state government. No Republican currently holds an elected state-wide office.
Brown seems to recognize that there are only so many "rich" people and that one doesn't become rich by being too stupid to know that the rich have options. California has the highest state income tax in the country, with a top marginal rate of 13.3 percent. Even left-wing, Trump-hating California resident Bill Maher complained about the state's high income taxes in 2013: "ln California, I just want to say: Liberals, you could actually lose me. ... Rich people ... actually do pay the freight in this country ... like 70 percent" of the taxes.
As to who bears responsibility for the Democratic lurch to the left, Brown blames Republican "weakness." Follow that? Republican "weakness" practically forced the Democrats to pursue a hard-left agenda: abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and pursuing "Medicare-for-all," $15 minimum wage, tuition-free college, and climate change alarmism.............
After Jerry Brown: Onward Toward Utopia!
.As progressives control of every level of California government, here are some big stories to watch as we head into the new year.............“We’ve had a majority party, but I’ve been the governor who knows how to say no,” Brown said. “I think it’s difficult to say no. The next four years, it’s going to become even more difficult, because the weakness of the Republican Party has let the Democratic Party, I think, get further out than I think the majority of people want.” That’s something given that Brown — despite his willingness to occasionally nix new spending — has been somewhat “out there” himself, on policies ranging from tax increases to the construction of a $100 billion bullet train.
Public servants remain our masters. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) remains mired in debt thanks to years of retroactive pension increases for the state’s public employees…………… (Editor’s Note: These Public Employee unions Brown brought in during his first fiasco as Governor. If anyone bares the blame for this situation, it's Brown RK)
Business as usual as businesses flee……… legal climate (that) has become so difficult that companies should consider locating in jurisdictions where they will be treated fairly.”………
Redevelopment rises from the grave. …………..Prediction: Redevelopment ultimately will come back and will once again become a scourge to taxpayers and property owners. State lawmakers are unlikely to address absurdly high housing prices by rolling back excessive building rules, but instead will focus on subsidies and these types of gimmicks.
Tax, ban, regulate and subsidize.The Legislature always brings to mind one of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotations: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ………
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