The new gov of California
took his cabinet on a tour of Central Valley. Gov. Gavin Newsome is pushing a
drinking water tax to pay for “safe and affordable drinking water.”
That’s right. Californians
who want clean water would pay not only income taxes, sales taxes and whatever
else the legislature has given them, as well as a tax on the water they use for
drinking, cooking and bathing. Gavin’s proposal is 95 cents a month, not much until
you consider what can be imposed can be raised. And what about downtrodden
Californians who can’t afford a water tax? I’m certain money can be found in
other ways, maybe a surcharge to the tax, or a volume tax.
While in Central Valley, Newsome
said, he and his cabinet “met
with residents who cannot drink or bathe with the water in their homes — while
paying more for it than those in Beverly Hills.”
If the governor truly
believes a gallon-for-gallon comparasion of water in agricultural Central
Valley vs Beverly Hills is logical or accurate, he needs to resign his office
and go back to school.
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