[artichokegrower]

Billions transferred every year from the California private sector to the public sector without one iota of difference made affecting global climate change. What a crock!

[Pontiac]

With California’s growing cap-and-trade program expected to yield a budgetary bonanza, lawmakers and interest groups have ample ideas for how to spend the money.

They are vying for a surge in new revenue that will be available this budget cycle and could continue pouring in for years to come.

Cutting taxes is never an option. Shoring up the state's failing pension fund is never considered.

California is a totally dysfunctional state.

[moovova]

“With California’s growing cap-and-trade program...”

...more and more businesses will be driven out of the state. The money currently burning a hole in the politician’s pockets may not be there when it’s time to write those pet project checks.

[headstamp 2]

Extortion pays big.

Perhaps they could build some more water storage facilities.

[grumpygresh]

Another Ponzi scheme will surely save CA.

[jdsteel]

There will be a carbon equivalent of Emron.

[jdsteel]

There will be a carbon equivalent of Enron.

[Texas Eagle]

...pay for heavy-duty trucks and ferries, nurture urban rivers...

Ferries? Urban rivers?

This is a river of money we're talking about not rivers of water.

What a perfect metaphor, though. Sacramento is a huge reservoir of money that has been diverted from its people's pockets.

[Oatka]

A common failing with all these idiots is that they extrapolate in a straight line upward. Remember the $5-a-gallon tax? The proponents were taking existing mileage and multiplying that figure times $5 and predicting millions of extra income, never taking into account that people will react.

Same here - some generators of that tax move elsewhere and the prediction falls flat - after the pols have committed the state to years of spending based on their bogus numbers.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Gas is back up to 4 bucks a gallon again here in commie land. I was in Texas over the weekend and it was 2.49. Man I hate living in commifornica!!!!

[Vaduz]

California is just Cook County west only we have more crooks.