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California’s Gavin Newsom Proposes Tax on Drinking Water in First Budget
Breitbart ^ | January 13, 2019 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 01/13/2019 12:48:00 PM PST by Trump20162020

California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed his first budget for the state on Friday, and it includes a tax on drinking water.

The budget, titled “California for All,” declares drinking water a “fundamental right,” and adds: “The Budget includes short-term measures to bring immediate relief to communities without safe drinking water and also proposes an ongoing sustainable funding source to address this problem into the future.”

The San Francisco Chronicle notes: “The details of the proposed tax are unknown, but a similar proposal was abandoned by then-Governor Jerry Brown last year after failing to garner enough support in the legislature.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; drinkingwater; gavinnewsom; medicareforall; newsom; obamacare; prop6; proposition6; tax; taxes; water
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1 posted on 01/13/2019 12:48:00 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Tax on breathing air to follow ......


2 posted on 01/13/2019 12:49:11 PM PST by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: Trump20162020

Out of control government.


3 posted on 01/13/2019 12:50:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Qiviut

To be followed by stiff penelties for exhaling CO2


4 posted on 01/13/2019 12:50:58 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Trump20162020

It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone in California. Not impossible, just really, really, hard.

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5 posted on 01/13/2019 12:51:34 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Trump20162020

It is time for the Yellow Vest revolution in California. Start is NOW!! That is what France is all about!! ( now also Britain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Malaysia. ) This is exploding and it is all about ant sovereignty and Climate crap. top it with PEOPLE in the streets.Drive Newsome into HIDING!!


6 posted on 01/13/2019 12:51:50 PM PST by Mikemurphy
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To: Trump20162020

...next tax on pee, coming and going..


7 posted on 01/13/2019 12:53:20 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Trump20162020

It’s to help the poor, because poor people don’t drink water.


8 posted on 01/13/2019 12:53:48 PM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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"It is time for the Yellow Vest revolution in California."

Didn't Californians vote against repealing the State Assembly's gas tax hike just a couple of months ago, while the French rioted (Yellow Vests) over higher gas taxes in their country? Makes you think.

9 posted on 01/13/2019 12:55:39 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Thought Brown was bad? Fasten your seatbelts.


10 posted on 01/13/2019 12:55:40 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Trump20162020

Tax on a “fundamental right “? Sheer lunacy.


11 posted on 01/13/2019 12:55:56 PM PST by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful.)
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To: Trump20162020

“short-term measures..”

No tax is temporary.


12 posted on 01/13/2019 12:56:06 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Trump20162020

What’s he doing about the bum onslaught?

Nothing.

I thought so.


13 posted on 01/13/2019 12:56:09 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Trump20162020

Heh, it will be an interesting time to watch an entire state of the union dissolve. I had thought Illinois would go first, but Mexifornia is clearly getting into the “last 100 yard” sprint.


14 posted on 01/13/2019 12:57:35 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Trump20162020

If drinking water is a fundamental right, how does he justify taxing it?


15 posted on 01/13/2019 12:59:41 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Lurker

It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone in California. Not impossible, just really, really, hard.

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I live in Cali.

Tick it over to the impossible column. We let it happen. This is on us.


16 posted on 01/13/2019 1:00:20 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: PIF

LOL - for sure :-)


17 posted on 01/13/2019 1:00:45 PM PST by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: Trump20162020

Does California have a flush tax on toilets like Maryland does?


18 posted on 01/13/2019 1:01:30 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trump20162020

Amazing how so many Democrats conclude their main problem is that their sheeple are undertaxed .


19 posted on 01/13/2019 1:03:13 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: Trump20162020

Leftists are always adding things to the long list of entitlements. They talk about “Healthcare as a right.” Slowly, everything in life is being added to the list.

Already on it:
Money, housing, cellphone, food, TV, Cable, transportation.

About to be added: guaranteed annual income for all. Free college. Drinking water. Job. Citizenship. Pension.

The end goal of all this is total and complete control of the means of production by the collectivity, I.E. communism.


20 posted on 01/13/2019 1:03:40 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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