“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
— Karl Marx
“California utility companies propose charging customers based on how much money they make”
Colleges already do it (under the guise of ‘financial aid’), so why not everyone else!!!
How can this be legal? It’s not like you can just hop on over to a different utility supplier.
Well, the greens in CA are already fighting to keep the deadline in place for the last nuclear power plant in CA to be shut down, so it doesn’t matter what the utility companies in CA propose. It’s kind of like giving the poor people on the Titanic bigger dinners than the rich folks.
Get a Hollywood accountant to determine how much money you make and you’ll get free electricity for life.
I noticed their rates are lower than mine
Karl would be proud
more social workers will need to be hired to help homeless and disadvantaged people in california navigate the new pricing structures?
Wealth redistribution. A Communist policy.
it is imho, in theory at least, a privacy violation for a company or corporation to have access to one’s income level. it that were allowed, it seems to me as if it would be the beginning of a (marxist) form of social credit.
SEEMS to me that higher income persons already pay more-—but they USE more & they can afford every high end gadget there is.
Will they also say restaurants can charge more to fat people???
This is invasive on it’s face-—requiring your income to become part of the utility records.
YEARS AGO-—I lived in So Calif. About late 70’s———
Drought—City Council passed a law saying that everyone MUST cut their water usage by 15%....(Year to year basis) IF not-—your first offense would get you a nastygram. Further offences would cost you $$$$$.
I got a bill that said I had used too much water. I was already being really careful.
I called DWP & asked them why I was being charged-—
I told them I had definitely cut my usage & I could prove it.
In talking to NICE lady at DWP, she asked how I knew I had used less.......
I told her—”BECAUSE I HAVE MY UTILITY BILLS FROM LAST YEAR..and I have used less —more than 15 % less”....Silence.
Then she says: “YOU DO???????”
I say “YES-—I HAVE BILLS BACK TO WHEN I BOUGHT THE HOUSE IN 1966”.....More silence.
Then I ask her “How come the DWP doesn’t already KNOW THAT??? THEY BILLED ME LAST YEAR”.......
She finally admits that the DWP doesn’t keep records more than 3 months or so—except when the bills are not being paid. TOO MUCH DATA TO HOLD ONTO.
I also had installed a sprinkler system & actually was using less water.
She notes my bill & I never got any more notices.
This kind of INVASIVE INCOME INFO BEING REQUIRED WILL BACKFIRE.
So a middle class person would pay about as much for electricity as a multi-millionare in a 15,000 sq. ft. mansion?
And how reduced is the ‘reduced usage fee? Can’t be much or the plans won’t be economially viable.
How are “They” going to know what your income is?
Prostitutes
Politicians (oops already said Prostitutes)
Drug dealers
Cartel members
Panhandlers
Human trafficers
California’s hated electric bills will soon be based on our income. Will it work? | Opinion
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