Posted on 01/10/2020 7:28:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
California certainly marches to the beat of a different drummer. They treat the federal government as a rival fiefdom, setting their own environmental laws, their own immigration laws, their own fuel standards -- as if the seat of power in the United States was in Sacramento.
On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom will present the state's budget for the next fiscal year. In it, he will propose that the state of California sell its own brand of prescription drugs in order to "increase competition in the generic drug marketplace and lower the cost of medications by having Sacramento contract drugmakers to manufacture certain prescriptions under a state label."
"Greedy pharmaceutical companies"? According to a study by Tufts University released last year, it costs a drug company $2.6 billion to bring a drug to market. There is no "greed" when pharmaceutical companies -- whose innovations and research save countless lives every year -- need to get a return on that massive investment.
Be that as it may, California is carving out an independent role in health care that does not bode well for the rest of us.
While the proposal is still in the conceptual phase, the plan is in line with a number of executive orders Newsom signed last year
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I wouldn’t worry about Mexicans. Let them take the independent California. If we start now, by the time they get here, we can have the Chinese convinced Mexicans are a delicacy. How to get rid of the Chinese after they buy a couple of ports and stack soldiers ten deep over the entirety of the landscape is what we should be worried about in that scenario.
LOL, they go through all of that trouble to get out of Mexico, only to be back in Mexico again.
Mexifornia can’t survive without the water from the Colorado river because that’s where SoCal gets 60% of its water. As a state they get very favorable terms for the use of that water but as an independent nation they would have to negotiate an international treaty for it.
And I say NOT A DROP. Let Utah, Arizona and Nevada use it all for irrigation. Turn SoCal into a dust bowl.
“...they want to control the entire world...they were on the way to writing all future laws...All of the power, none of the responsibility.” [Zathras, post 9]
Californians have been doing it for some time.
In the 1960s, air pollution became a problem in southern California because so many people insisted on living there. They raised such a fuss that Congress passed pollution-control laws that forced the nation to comply - despite the relative lack of pollution problems everywhere else.
California developed major highway safety problems. Congress passed laws forcing auto makers to install safety gear, radically alter car designs, add pollution-control devices, and many other things. Lead was removed from gasoline. Nationwide, anyone buying an auto had to pay extra for this stuff - even though they lived where vehicle-caused air pollution didn’t exist, and traffic hazards were nil. Across the country, millions of vehicles were rendered inoperable overnight, because they could not run on unleaded gasoline (which cost more to boot).
Just after the turn of the present century, Californians passed sweeping gun-control laws, banning sale of many specific models of firearms. When these laws failed to reduce crime, they passed more laws. Ultimately, California required gunmakers, distributors, and gun dealers across the nation wishing to do business in the state were forced to register with the California Attorney General’s Office and obtain prior permission to sell guns, ammunition etc to dealers & citizens in the state. In essence, an entire parallel dealer-licensing system was created, to regulate commerce in guns.
A clear violation of federal law: not merely challenging federal supremacy in Constitutional law recognizing individual rights, but also laws regulating interstate commerce. Restraint of trade is not allowed.
Maybe more.
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How so? Do you think CA would suddenly become a business friendly, efficiently run country if left to its manage its own affairs? I don’t see that happening but maybe I’m missing something.
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