Posted on 07/16/2017 6:50:07 AM PDT by rktman
This year California legislators passed the largest gas tax increase in decades, a move which will hit the middle class the hardest. When middle class taxpayers got upset, Gov. Brown hit back, calling them "freeloaders" and invoking the "everyone has to pitch in for society!" talking points.
Maybe they'd have more money if they weren't spending it on things people don't rely on the government to provide.
One thing legislators have found the money for is anti-gun research. They call it "gun violence research," but make no mistake, there is only one acceptable outcome for the research. During the 2016 legislative session lawmakers approved a bill creating the "University of California Firearms Violence Research Center," allotting $5 million over five years to establish the center and fund operations.
Five million dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions California needs to improve roads, crumbling bridges, and deteriorating dams, but, as they keep reminding residents of the drought-stricken state, drops add up.
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Clearly California crony government officials take care of themselves first and foremost and leave little of the tax monies for their intended purpose. Misappropriation of tax dollars by government officials used to be a crime but now it’s just business as usual. And now the middle class tax payers are considered freeloaders for wanting accountability?
I could do the research for them for only $500K. It’s the bad guys with the guns that are doing all the crime. The good guys with the guns are not causing a problem.
Memo to Jerry Brown, I hope my check arrives soon.
Why those “deplorable freeloaders”. How can they expect anything different from the Socialist State of California. The words “... shall not be infringed.” must be written in Greek as far as the Cali government is concerned.
Who needs roads when everyone has got a free ticket to ride on a fast train to nowhere?
The plundering of California goes on apace, even minor political functionaries are becoming millionaires off of it.
Intellectual: Someone who cannot DO anything of value, so he pontificates verbally, in writing or both, and expects to be paid for it.
Gun Violence Research: An employment program for Intellectuals.
Gov. Brown hit back, calling them “freeloaders” and invoking the “everyone has to pitch in for society!” talking points.
Sounds like a Hitler quote. Definitely sounds fascist to me.
People who fix and use roads are working class citizens.
People who ‘research’ gun violence are liberal elites in University settings who fly around the world to ‘meetings’...
It doesn’t get more obvious than that...
Jerry’s gas tax increase likely won’t go to roads/bridges.
Yet the left tells us the blue states finance red states!!! Weird logic.
BOOK “More Guns, Less Crime”
There now, the research is finished. Send that $5 million dollars to Free Republic.
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