Posted on 05/15/2025 5:29:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed Wednesday to spend $1 billion per year on the state’s failing high-speed rail project through cap-and-trade programs, even as his budget drowned in massive deficits.
As Breitbart News reported, the governor’s revised budget plan sought cuts to a variety of programs to make up a $12 billion deficit. He even proposed cutting off new enrollees for “free” health care to illegal aliens.
But high-speed rail — a program that is decades late and $100 billion over budget without a single station being built — will continue to be funded, as Newsom continues to embrace it as an environmental dream.
Politico reported:
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed a 15-year extension of California’s signature cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases — a cornerstone of the state’s climate policies and a reliable revenue generator.
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Newsom’s plan would also address another California initiative under attack from the Trump administration. Specifically, it would convert the proportion of revenue that funds the state’s hot-button high-speed rail project from a 25 percent carve-out to a guaranteed minimum funding level of $1 billion annually.
“California won’t bend the knee to a federal administration hellbent on making America polluted again,” Newsom said in a statement provided to POLITICO. “Cap-and-invest is the next chapter for one of our most effective tools to clean the air and keep our communities healthy.”
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At $1 billion per year for a project $100 billion over budget, it will only be a century before Newsom's folly is completed..... Be patient.
Imagine, if you can .... ( sing along with Gavin )
I think suitable VTOL electric planes might be available before the thing would get finished.
Throw in the towel, Governor.
100 billion over budget already, so Gov you have burn through 100 years of what you propose. What a F’ing looser. I can’t believe the people are so stupid to repeatedly vote this grifter into office.
Cap-and-trade has been a main source of money for this vanity project. Essentially the state sets a cap on CO2 “pollution,” then sells permits-to-pollute to corporations who need to exceed the cap. They can then go on generating more CO2 or sell the permits to someone else who needs one. All just a glorified carbon tax.
Without federal bailout money in the tens of billions, this project is a dead duck. California is always proud to crow about how they are “the first state to develop true highspeed rail” but they want the rest of us to pay for it.
Florida already has high speed rail, California doesn’t. Wonder why?
Amid Deficits, Gavin Newsom Proposes $1 Billion per Year for High-Speed Rail
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Aka
Pelosi/Newsome Grifters Pension Plan.
and where is the compensation for farmers land...?
And for billions of tones of concrete....where is the water coming from....as the fresh water is diverted into the Pacific ocean to keep the smelt fish alive.
And a tunnel for the last couple of miles into San rancisco
Communists love the boondoggle money laundries.
What’s the bigger money hole at this point: Ukraine or High Speed Rail in California?
The ship has sailed, long ago, on developing high-speed interurban rail connections within the United States. These systems had to develop organically as an expansion of rail transport, in the ABSENCE of other transportation systems.
The death knell on railroad expansion came with the growth of the network of both national highways and the Interstate system, and the development of motor transport of goods over these same highways and superhighways. The ready access to privately owned passenger vehicles cut away most need for passenger train travel, and were vastly more flexible than trying to maintain passenger transportation schedules.
If the system of airline transport is already badly compromised, who would an overlay of high-speed rail avoid a similar fate?
Do not start vast projects with half-vast ideas.
How do you manage to spend $100 billion without building anything?
Only one way, fraud.
I guess Newsome never came across the idiom "Don't throw good money after bad."
Since Newsome insist on continuing to spend money on this obviously hopeless project one must conclude that he is in on the fraud in some way,
Look for the union label. Notice there are no investigations of where all that train money went.
California is screwed. So screwed. Democrat super-majority combined with a long and growing fiscal mess. Check out:
All pensions Transparent California
Gavin Nobrain to me would be like a teen who given first credit card would run up a couple thousand dollars of purchases and then gets surprised when finding out “You mean I have to pay this back?”
In California, taxpayers give 17 billion for high speed rail, and nothing. 24 billion to fight homelessness, and nothing. What else am I missing? https://shorturl.at/6XjSh
Californians deserve Gavin Newsom and his idiotic policies. So, let him tax the left coast as much as possible, spend BILLIONS$$$$ on a high speed train, and build it on top of the San Andreas fault line. That is what California deserves.
NEW MATH IS HARDER THAN OLD MATH
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