Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/03/2009 7:26:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Anticipating hundreds of millions of dollars a year in greenhouse gas fees collected from California businesses, the Legislature is planning to redistribute much of the bounty to the state's "most impacted and disadvantaged communities."
Perhaps a bill pending in the state Senate reveals the motive of feel-good legislative efforts to fight global warming: a massive redistribution of wealth.
Assembly Bill 1405 calls for 30 percent of new fees raised under global warming regulations yet to be drafted to go to a Community Benefits Fund to be used in specially selected communities, based on specific criteria also yet to be drafted.
A Senate analysis says anticipated new rules by the state Air Resources Board allow revenue from fees imposed on greenhouse gas emitters to pay for the board's administrative costs, but not for "climate-change-related mitigation activities."
AB 1405, authored by assembly members Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, and V. Manuel Perez, D-Indio, would amend the so-called Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 to require 30 percent of money raised by fees under consideration by the Air Resources Board to be "used solely in the most impacted and disadvantaged communities. . ." The 2006 law provides broadly that "revenues collected pursuant to this section, shall be deposited into the Air Pollution Control Fund and are available upon appropriation, by the Legislature, for purposes of carrying out this division."
As proposed, the money would provide "competitive grants" to reduce emissions and install equipment and "energy efficiency upgrades for schools, senior centers or low-income housing." Money collected from businesses statewide would be redistributed according to "socioeconomic indicators," including income and poverty levels, educational attainment and "linguistic isolation."
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
The idiots who keep re-electing the liberals in CA really must be insane... they keep doing the same thing over and over taxwise and are expecting a different result. :)
>> Community Benefits Fund to be used in specially selected communities
Wonder how much will end up in the pockets of corrupt Community Organizers?
If California wants a handle on pollution, maybe they could do something to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.
Wonder how much will end up in the pockets of corrupt Community Organizers?
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All of it?
“....collected from California businesses...”
.. and these idiots never even wonder why businesses are bailing out of California. .. Honestly, it never occurs to them because they’re so blinded by their money grab.
Gee, why do I get the feeling that I can predict the voter registration in these "communities"? Criteria indeed...
All of it will end up for the benefit of King Obama by establishing his Kalifornia Brown Shirts.
Why is anyone still doing business in CA?
Classic Left wing wealth distribution scheme in the guise of bullshit environmentalism.
I liked that phrase, ‘linguistic isolation’, too bad I’ve no idea what was meant by its inclusion in the set of handicaps.
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