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California’s Gavin Newsom Proposes Tax on Drinking Water in First Budget
Breitbart ^ | January 13, 2019 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 01/13/2019 12:48:00 PM PST by Trump20162020

California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed his first budget for the state on Friday, and it includes a tax on drinking water.

The budget, titled “California for All,” declares drinking water a “fundamental right,” and adds: “The Budget includes short-term measures to bring immediate relief to communities without safe drinking water and also proposes an ongoing sustainable funding source to address this problem into the future.”

The San Francisco Chronicle notes: “The details of the proposed tax are unknown, but a similar proposal was abandoned by then-Governor Jerry Brown last year after failing to garner enough support in the legislature.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; drinkingwater; gavinnewsom; medicareforall; newsom; obamacare; prop6; proposition6; tax; taxes; water
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To: Trump20162020

if water is a ‘fundamental right’ it follows that it should be illegal to tax it


61 posted on 01/13/2019 2:16:30 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Trump20162020

I notice they never, EVER go after the Hollywooders for the needed cash.

Somehow they are beyond reproach.

The Sunshine State will soon be a textbook example of indentured servitude. The snobby elites, and those that serve them - that’s it.


62 posted on 01/13/2019 2:18:20 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Trump20162020

Californians voted against it but it was driven home by noncitizen Dreamer ballot harvesting - that is, foreign interests interfering in our elections


63 posted on 01/13/2019 2:18:28 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Trump20162020

“The Budget includes short-term measures to bring immediate relief to communities without safe drinking water and also proposes an ongoing sustainable funding source to address this problem into the future.”

Why have Democrats who run California allowed communities to have unsafe drinking water? If it had not bothered them before why does it bother them now?


64 posted on 01/13/2019 2:22:23 PM PST by funfan
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To: onedoug

He’s providing water for those bums on your dime!


65 posted on 01/13/2019 2:33:00 PM PST by stylecouncilor (Dreg of Society)
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To: stylecouncilor

Gummint theft by gummint thieves. ALL of them!


66 posted on 01/13/2019 2:37:22 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Trump20162020

The Governor of California is a complete grease ball.

A no ethics lawyer. Gonna fix California and his pocketbook real good.

When did California go downhill? When “Republican” Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor. He was Teddy Kennedy’s in law. Remember? Made it possible for vote rigging into the 22nd Century.

The democrats will destroy the state. Taxpayers stand by for the fleecing.

The democrats don’t care. They want money. They want abortion. They want drugs...they want it all and that spells what democrats are...treasoness criminals of the highest order.


67 posted on 01/13/2019 2:43:26 PM PST by Chuck N
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To: dpetty121263

Remember there are many conservatives in CA, just the liberals outnumber them, that’s how these communists get elected.


68 posted on 01/13/2019 2:48:24 PM PST by Innovative
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To: DennisR

Tax on drinking water? Or on total water use? Or do they plan to just tax bottled water?


69 posted on 01/13/2019 2:50:36 PM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: o-n-money

“It’s to help the poor, because poor people don’t drink water.”

Nothing a few desalination facilities won’t fix. Maybe some infrastructure to go along with it. That will create jobs and get some of the homeless and unemployed working again.


70 posted on 01/13/2019 2:55:51 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" have turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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To: Lurker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG075V5LXyk

Lurker,

A propos of your comment, it brought to mind a 1932 movie that I watched yesterday. Go to 50:45 about recounts used to overturn elections.

California is not in control of its own citizens any longer but a gang of thugs just like the thugs in this movie.


71 posted on 01/13/2019 3:06:05 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and the forests.)
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To: Trump20162020

Hey, Newsome, why not tax air?


72 posted on 01/13/2019 3:34:52 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: AppyPappy

The exodus from CA may just make the exodus from IL and NY look like nothing.


73 posted on 01/13/2019 3:39:19 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Qiviut

***Tax on breathing air to follow ***

Several years back I saw an old Mexican movie about problems in the early 1800s getting tax money. In one scene a political says he wishes he could tax the air the people breathe. The other politician came up with a plan, and taxed the doors and windows in houses.

So the people simply bricked up their doors and all windows except one, in which the entered and left their homes by ladder.


74 posted on 01/13/2019 3:59:00 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Innovative
It's a boilerplate thing. Fundamental rights are for the children. Taxes help the children. Jeryy's Kids are still here. These new taxes will give Jerry's Kids what they need long after Jerry has gone.


75 posted on 01/13/2019 4:07:26 PM PST by Califreak (Your Tagline Here)
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To: Trump20162020
Coming soon: A tax for everyone for exhaling Carbon Dioxide!!

In an attempt to raise more money for their liberal utopian fantasies, the Governor and leading democrats in California has crafted a plan that they call "Very Equitable and Historic", will soon be put into motion. Governor Newsom was quoted as saying that "everyone breathes and exhales CO2 and thus they need to pay for harming the Earth with their pollution".

He has proposed the introduction of a Life Breath Taxes that everyone in the state will be required to have. This passport will include their name, address, age, ethnicity and political affiliations. All newborns will be required to be registered by 30 days after birth as well.
The tax rates will be determined by a computer algorithm which uses important factors such as their Age, Weight, Race and Political Affiliation to compute taxes due.

/Sarc off?

76 posted on 01/13/2019 4:12:13 PM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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To: Trump20162020

How will they know what water you drink and what you use for other purposes? Dumb question but will they put cameras in homes?


77 posted on 01/13/2019 4:25:30 PM PST by nclaurel
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To: Doogle

Time to purchase a Yellow Vest before the rush on them.


78 posted on 01/13/2019 4:37:00 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Trump20162020

I thought Texas applying a sales tax to electric and water bills was bad.


79 posted on 01/13/2019 4:40:48 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Trump20162020
Talk about immoral!
80 posted on 01/13/2019 4:46:14 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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