Bears the Karl Marx Seal of Approval.
Posted on 06/06/2023 1:52:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
California will soon become the first state to determine residents’ electricity fees based on their income as part of a new effort to spur households toward full electrification and bring down the state’s soaring electricity costs for low-income Californians.
Electricity bills are made up of fixed costs as well as fees that vary based on the amount of electricity residents use. Last year, the state passed a law giving the California public utilities commission a 1 July 2024 deadline to determine a fixed charge for household electric bills based on people’s income.
The new income-based electricity bills could hit residents’ mailboxes as soon as 2025. Based on proposals currently under consideration, residents who make more than $180,000 a year could pay about $500 more annually on their electricity bills, while Californians who make less than $28,000 annually could save up to $300 a year. The law is part of the state’s answer of how to equitably transition away from carbon as an energy source.
But state officials are already facing backlash from higher-income residents who don’t want to see their bills increase. The proposals have so far received more than 250 public comments, with a large number opposing the law.
“Why should I pay for someone else’s bill when I paid thousands for solar?” one commenter wrote.
California currently has some of the highest electricity costs of any state, according to a report that suggested the income-based model. California’s electricity prices range from one and a half times to double the national average.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
"We must destroy more of the kulaks (producers), i.e. "counter revolutionaries."
Brought to you by the Democratic People’s Republic of California.
they already have relief for low income households
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-energy/electric-costs/care-fera-program
https://www.csd.ca.gov/pages/liheapprogram.aspx
high income 24% increase in Commifornia
Although wildfire liability costs (mostly PG&E) have jacked up electricity rates, the cause of this “tiered base flat rate + usage” proposal is California Assembly Bill 205 passed last year. See this April FR thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4148756/posts
Bill text:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB205
Additional:
In socialist zones like California, they punish people who are prudent, hard working, and successful.
Is that even legal? I expect to see some lawsuits on this, yes/no?
I wonder if the Founding Fathers knew what the hell they were doing when they decided to give EVERYONE the right to vote no matter how retarded they are
Congress over the years has changed the rules first woman and then 18 year old (and don’t forget when they changed the way Senator were selected).
Now there is talk of allowing non-citizens to vote (not that they have not been doing so already, just making it legal.)
Californians find out how socialism really works
State Farm, Allstate and Oregon Mutual have stopped writing consumer policies in Kalifornia due to fire hazards. I think we might be seeing the the beginning of the end???
California once led the nation in just about everything.
For most it doesn’t work in term of economics but in this instance they are pissing off the wealthy. Who knows what they will do.
It does make sense. Everything they do has the goal of increasing their power.
Forcing more electricity consumption while limiting generating and transmission capacity and increasing the costs via solar and wind mandates... every single one of these thing increases their power over the people struggling to pay their bills.
The oligarchs that control CA don’t care about the extra cost.
It impoverishes the middle class and makes them even more dependent on benefits and subsidies that the oligarchs control.
I guess there is no idea too stupid for California
Just another step on the road to becoming a socialist hell hole.
Great idea Kalifornia, drive out some more rich people. More wealthy people realize every day that Kalifornia is not welcoming or safe for them any longer.
Bears the Karl Marx Seal of Approval.
They didn't.
Repeal 19.
Agreed. I was completely excoriated here for saying as much a number of years back. Lol. C'mon earthquake, c'mon!
California should humiliate the rich in public denunciation like their heroes the Chinese Communists:
(from Wikipedia)
Struggle sessions or denunciation rallies were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being “class enemies” were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured by people with whom they were close.
Usually conducted at the workplace, classrooms and auditoriums, “students were pitted against their teachers, friends and spouses were pressured to betray one another, [and] children were manipulated into exposing their parents”.
Staging, scripts and agitators were prearranged by the Maoists to incite crowd support. The aim was to instill a crusading spirit among the crowd to promote the Maoist thought reform. These rallies were most popular in the mass campaigns immediately before and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and during the Cultural Revolution.
The denunciation of prominent class enemies was often conducted in public squares and marked by large crowds of people who surrounded the kneeling victim, raised their fists, and shouted accusations of misdeeds.
Just an old dusty document. Judges don't even care about it anymore. If you think the Constitution is going to stop the anti-American leftist marxist democrats, you got another thing coming. Just one reason I lol every time I hear the Article V garbage. Hell, these guys think reps to a Constitutional convention would follow their state ordered guidelines. Yeah, and our elected officials will follow the Constitution.
If I remember correctly, the FF's wanted a system whereby only those that owned property would be allowed to vote, because they were the ones impacted. That is how it should be today.
What fun it must be to live in California!
next this kind of crap will affect what is paid for food, fuel, housing etc etc......==full blown forced upon us communism
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