Will those user fees go UP or DOWN depending on whether the Bond is passed or no?
And the follow on question is :Exactly who gets punished depending on the various scenarios?
This is a revolting development and "rural folks" will get it in the neck/wallet, or other part of their anatomy, unless they revolt relentlessly, with legal representation (since they barely have elected representatives with any clout,due to "cows don't vote")!!!
Since confusion reigns, it's any good attorney's job to further confuse, then clarify on the client's terms.
McClintock's approach, which is irrelevant unless Arnold would consider it, to simply roll back the whole spending thing by 13% is evidently too simple. My idea is even simpler and has no chance at all... to simply go back to the 1998 budget and adopt it!!!
These simpler concepts would put the lie to the rip-off's these state agencies are perpetrating on our "rural folks," proving prima facia that they aren't needed!!!
They know dang good and well that city folks would organize immediately and revolt enmass to stop this as they have the votes that the "rural folks" lack because of "one person, one vote" in both houses of the State Legislature. If we had "one county, one vote" in the State Senate like we had prior to "cows don't vote," it would at least give "rural folks" a half a chance through elected reps!!!
Oh, and another thing...
The MetroMob are agravated that there are so many people out on their rural landscape ruining their "rural environment" (with they pronounce "rule") by building ANY rural homes to despoil their viewshed from I-5, or any river bottom, or even from a jet liner.
They may not be able to have our rural homes razed right now, but by golly they're gonna make sure that no more are ever built!!! People snear when they hear this prejudice articulated in public, but it's nonetheless the truth!!!
They figure they'll drive rural folks back into the congested, crime riddled cities with "smart growth," mass transit and "in-fill development!" They also figure we'll just "lye back and enjoy" this gang-rape job with fees!!!
Arnold doesn't get this and Pete's no help because he never got it, either!!! McClintock understood it, but he didn't have the star power of a personality to get elected. For that matter, Reagan never got it either, so maybe CA is truly ungovernable. The only real solution is to split the state into "Coastal California," and the rest of CA.