Gavin Newsom will be lucky if he is not recalled.
It is easy to be a socialist when the money is rolling in, but not so easy when the money begins to dry up.
Lack of basic understanding of how an economy works (and what socialist does) they make rules and regulations and laws based on FEELINGS.
During the good times most businesses can adjust under the burden the government puts on them, but as soon as hard times hit, business are crushed.
Newsome (like most other governors) are learning that without economic activity there is no sales tax, there is no income tax, there are no fees. Bottom line, a flood of money flowing into the states has dropped to a trickle.
Yet their outgo continues as before. Basic economy 101 if your outgo is greater then your income you have big trouble in River City.
Newsome has mishandled this crisis. He will be seen as the man that killed the golden goose (perhaps unfairly since previous governors did their part as well)
Bottom line, he will never be President.
I remember many FReepers expressing that same "bottom line" in 2008 about one Barack Obama. Americans can break hearts with their penchant for emotional voting. Never say "never."
Newsom has allowed a number of business owners to reopen.
However, he won’t let nail salons reopen—claiming ‘The VIRUS Started There”.
I sure would like to see proof of that.
PERHAPS a salon customer or owner was the nearest they could trace to ‘Patient Zero”, but I sincerely believe that you cannot blame it on the nail salons.
Over 500,000 members of a cosmetology group are suing Newsom over this.