Posted on 01/28/2015 7:24:39 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
California has a way of living up to the worst regulatory expectations, as grocery shoppers across the country are discovering. The state’s latest animal-rights march is levying a punishing new food tax on the nation’s poor.
Egg prices are soaring in California, where the USDA says the average price for a dozen jumbo eggs is $3.16, up from $1.18 a dozen a year ago, and in some parts of the state it’s more than $5.
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The state legislature realized this would put home-state farmers at a disadvantage, so in 2010 it compounded the problem by requiring that eggs imported from other states come from farms meeting the same cage standards, effective Jan. 1, 2015.
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There’s a strong argument that this violates the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which bars states from discriminating against interstate trade. The feds regulate egg safety, and California’s cage standards discriminate against out-of-state poultry producers.
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Hey, no hard feelings I hope, Max. I don’t care for Chicagoland either, but I know some pretty cool people/FRiends who still live there.
If I tried to move back to San Diego with my guns, you would probably see stills of me on the news with Shepherd Smith batting his eyelashes.
20 eggs were $6.99 at the market tonight. Could not understand why cost was so high. Now I know.
There go Grand Slam prices.
“Then maybe the people in CA would get a clue as to how they’re being screwed by liberal policies.”
It will be Bush’s fault.
Exactly. I am older and do not have the finances to uproot. There are Libs everywhere. There are Conservative places in CA like Orange County where one can find like minds. One can live in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica and still get on Free Republic. Stop painting everyone in CA with a big brush.
Films might shoot in other states for a few weeks or even a few months. So what?
Post-production is still centered in California. Post-production is the leg of making a feature film that takes three years and employs lots of people.
Every major studio, every TV broadcast network, and every major cable network is headquartered within 25 miles of each other in Los Angeles.
Oh, sure, “Breaking Bad.” But most TV shows, scripted and reality, network and cable, sitcom and drama, are written, shot, and edited in Los Angeles.
There are more than 100 stages at Disney, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. There are a hundred more stages among even older and newer studio lots you’ve never heard of.
California owns film and television production. But you California haters just go right on wishing and hoping...
Better get used to the low-info faction painting all
Californians with the same brush. Some of these haters
come from states with fewer total conservative voters
than we have in CA. Others come from states which have
contributed their fair share of libtards to our population
count over the years. Remember, there are more California
Freepers than any other state.
Click on my username.
Cheers
Holy frijoles!
Well, I suppose those are a buck a bean now too.
Nope. No wishing and hoping. In Dallas alone, I’ve been seeing many, many post outfits moving here - and this place is secondary to Austin in the film scheme of things.
I said I moved, I didn’t say I left film behind or stopped paying attention to it.
Also, every major network? When did CNN move from Georgia? Did CBS close their facilities in New York?
Someone who is still thinking may want to consider the
possibility of “start thinking”. By that I mean just who
would be left to produce his/her food if California conservatives all left the state? What does Arizona grow,
a little lettuce and kitty litter?
Most of CA’s agriculture is dying anyway, thanks to the fun and games being played with the water supply there. “Delta Smelt” ring a bell?
Don’t come to me with that, Tex. California still leads
the nation in agriculture by 2x. And, speaking of #2,
that would be Texas and there will NEVER be a way for
Texas to produce what Cali produces.
Nope. Two hundred stages aren’t going anywhere. And they’re booked all the time. Try booking space in Los Angeles.
CBS keeps some bean counters in New York — their core business is run out of their studio complex on Beverly Drive in Los Angeles. And most of their primetime lineup shot and edited here.
CNN is not a major network.
In other words CA owns one of the key sources of moral decay in America.
Fine... Egg distributors in other States just should stop sending eggs to CA. ............The people in CA would probably raise enough hell that the law would be rescinded in short order and prices would go down. Liberal CA idiot lawmakers never consider consequences.
Well, I don’t know. In terms of total food nutrient value, TX might be closer to CA than you think.
However, fruit, grain, and vegetable production in TX could be MUCH higher: Divert Midwest flood waters to giant reservoirs in TX for irrigation. Certain climate sensitive food plants might not grow well in even an irrigated TX, but otherwise, it would work just fine, and solve flooding problems, too. Granted, it’d be one heck of a pipeline project, but TX has the energy to power the pumps, and the space for the reservoirs.
If you could divert flood waters from the Midwest why
send it to Texas? Do you know it takes more than water?
What about climate and proper soil?
Well, I did mention climate. Soil is a factor too. Then again, there’s a lot of very good soil washing down the Ohio/Missouri/Mississippi River system. Send it along.
Quite a lot can be done with plant genetics, too. (We happen to have a plant geneticist in the family.) There’s a limit, of course: Texas is unlikely to become one big winery, I suspect. But grains? Oh, yeah...
As for why Texas? Well, if Texas can use the water, in springtime a lot of people along the Ohio/Missouri/Mississippi River system would like to not worry about being UNDER that water. It makes more sense to divert it to Texas than into the Gulf of Mexico. You might even be able to sell the idea to the environmentalists: This could help balance the “excess” of fresh water going to the sea from glaciers melting (they say).
(You do realize this is a little, but not entirely, tongue in cheek? The Israelis made the desert bloom...)
Yep, I get the slight humorous tilt but in the practical
sense we won’t be seeing $$ billions spent diverting the
elusive, unpredictable Midwest flood waters. My Central
Valley rice farmer cousins depend on the Sacramento River
for annual needs. Last year they were cut back 20% and
this year is even more severe. The Sac River is a hell of
a lot more dependable than Midwest flood waters and you
can see that even the Sacramento River has pitfalls.
If you follow my posts from the start you will see that
my theme is to challenge others who suggest conservative
Californians should all move away.
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