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Sydin posted:California currently has a $97B surplus, of which Newsom says $49B is "immediately available" for use. you have the money, please use it for something forward-thinking rather than giving it back so people can drive around in circles looking for parking longer
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How much would CalCare cost to implement again? Haha
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The state and local budgets in California are constrained by an archaic constitutional measure that voters approved in 1979 called the Gann Limit. The Gann Limit established a threshold that requires the state to spend half of its surplus on education and the other half on tax relief, after it reaches a certain threshold. Along with Prop 13, it's another way that conservatives have kneecapped the state from investing its revenue in meaningful social programs. California also has a moratorium on constructing new nuclear plants in the state, but I'm pretty sure this could be changed via new legislation. This was a result of pushback from Nixon's commitment in 1973 to construct 1,000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000. Imagine if this actually succeeded...
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Bodhidharma posted:The Gann Limit established a threshold that requires the state to spend half of its surplus on education and the other half on tax relief, after it reaches a certain threshold. it's so wacky that California is sitting here in the 12th year of a democratic trifecta and we still can't get meaningful things done. feels like the state is covered in glue Sivart13 fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Jul 4, 2022 20:15
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Sivart13 posted:likes, TIL. or perhaps re-learned Here's a good article about the Gann Limit and the problems that it will exacerbate in future years if you're interested in reading more. In short, voters probably shouldn't dictate fiscal policy on such a large scale and enshrine it in the constitution. https://prospect.org/economy/california-has-too-much-money-in-its-budget/
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Sivart13 posted:likes, TIL. or perhaps re-learned it's almost like they benefit from these measures and so don't care
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Sivart13 posted:likes, TIL. or perhaps re-learned https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1521780735430078465
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Jul 5, 2022 00:27
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We'll see if they can deliver, but, if they can, this is an unequivocal Good Thing (tm). https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1545122879649374209
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Jul 7, 2022 21:46
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You'll get it at the end of the fiscal year, in a big shipment containing exactly enough* insulin for the next year, and also only if you're a disabled war vet single mother. *As determined by a bean counter, so, like, probably a quarter of what you need
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Jul 7, 2022 22:33
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Larry Parrish posted:You'll get it at the end of the fiscal year, in a big shipment containing exactly enough* insulin for the next year, and also only if you're a disabled war vet single mother. ** Comedy option: They're all located in Bakersfield.
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Jul 7, 2022 22:43
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Larry Parrish posted:You'll get it at the end of the fiscal year, in a big shipment containing exactly enough* insulin for the next year, and also only if you're a disabled war vet single mother. You'll get a tax credit and a coupon for a free casket when you drop dead from lack of insulin.
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Jul 7, 2022 22:48
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confused posted:We'll see if they can deliver, but, if they can, this is an unequivocal Good Thing (tm). Why the gently caress would anything good ever happen?
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Jul 7, 2022 22:51
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I guess we at least know the state can somewhat handle the cold chain since they're doing it with the covid vaccine
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isn't that mostly private companies and then the feds paying for it
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Jul 7, 2022 23:02
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Its probably gonna save Medi-Cal a shitload of money
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Jul 7, 2022 23:06
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Oh, I guess thats probable. State and local health departments still have been an endpoint though. Hopefully theres some useful experience that has come out of it since insulin is temperature sensitive
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Why the gently caress would anything good ever happen? It's pretty bleak times. I've got to find hope somewhere. Even then, if they do what they say they are going to do, spend $50m on R&D and $50m on building a pilot production facility and reach the point where they show that mass production is achievable at a cost that is below market levels, that is huge. They'd probably have to put in another $100-200m to reach scale, but once that happens, everyone would benefit. Then when you show it works the first time, there is no reason you couldn't do any drug you can name with a similar program. Obviously, it doesn't preclude the need for a single payer healthcare system. However, it's something that would benefit a single payer system just as much. EDIT: IMHO, it paves the ground towards single payer, politically. It could show that the government can take a direct role in healthcare without it being the end of the world.
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Just got a political keep Florida free ad for desantis on the youtubes when I'm definitely still in California and using a CA IP address. Is the idea that Biden quits or dies, Kamala is awful, so Newsom steps in and battles desantis? Local boy makes good. Who replaces Newsom?
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Jul 9, 2022 18:33
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The bear plz
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droll posted:Just got a political keep Florida free ad for desantis on the youtubes when I'm definitely still in California and using a CA IP address. Is the idea that Biden quits or dies, Kamala is awful, so Newsom steps in and battles desantis? Local boy makes good. *sigh* I guess I'll do it.
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The Aardvark posted:The bear plz
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The Aardvark posted:The bear plz 
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droll posted:Who replaces Newsom? Gray Davis
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Gray Davis if we're going down this route we might as well bring back jerry brown again
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Alex Villenueva
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Jul 10, 2022 04:51
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Don’t we have several unpopular former LA mayors we can dragoon into the job?
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droll posted:Who replaces Newsom?
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MickeyFinn posted:Don’t we have several unpopular former LA mayors we can dragoon into the job? Garcetti is tanned, ready
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Kenning posted:Alex Villenueva gently caress that Nazi
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droll posted:Who replaces Newsom? After expiring, Pelosi's and Feinstein's staffs run a joint ticket and take turns having their corpses wheeled out on a dolly for press conferences.
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Jul 13, 2022 01:59
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Storms a brewing Cali braaaahs. It's gonna be a narly swell
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Rich douche orders a Batmobile replica, but misses a $20k payment and stops calling the maker for 8 months. Batmobile maker sells the done one to someone else and puts him in the queue. A now angry rich douche calls his friend the San Mateo Sheriff and gets him to go to Indiana to raid his garage and get the car. "Your public money paid for the trip last week by the sheriff's investigators - four round-trip plane tickets, three nights of hotels, meals, rental cars, and a lot of overtime." Completely out of his jurisdiction, but what does that matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiM1At3O53E https://abc7news.com/batmobile-raid-indiana-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-fiberglass-freaks-of-logansport-factory-raided/12083955/
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I like the detail where everyone interviewed except for the DA and the dipshit slumlord are completely bewildered and blindsided that this even happened. Sometimes I wish I had cop brain, the absolute confidence in myself to do poo poo like this lol. I would love to know what happened at that Indiana jail when four sheriff's deputies from 2000 miles away show up with some random rear end in a top hat, probably with little to no advance warning, yelling about how he needs to be detained. I know cops love to cover for each other but good god, where does it end? Also, like, not a chance they had a real warrant, right? It had to be one of those 'administrative warrant' things that says warrant on it but is actually the legal equivalent of the cops asking pretty please.
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Larry Parrish posted:I like the detail where everyone interviewed except for the DA and the dipshit slumlord are completely bewildered and blindsided that this even happened. Sometimes I wish I had cop brain, the absolute confidence in myself to do poo poo like this lol. I would love to know what happened at that Indiana jail when four sheriff's deputies from 2000 miles away show up with some random rear end in a top hat, probably with little to no advance warning, yelling about how he needs to be detained. I know cops love to cover for each other but good god, where does it end? Why would it end? What consequences would they even see? They're going to get 2 weeks PTO as "punishment".
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California status: ennnnnhhhhh it's too sticky
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It's been so loving muggy for like 2 months.
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All the smoke lol. It's all high atmosphere so the whole state has an inversion layer. And around here at least it keeps causing rain seeding and the humidity just slowly climbs.
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I've been so drat cranky the last few days and I'm sure that has something to do with it. Also the dog having the runs on the carpet, the other dog's skin problems and trouble with the water pipe but still.
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I've been joking with my family in Illinois that this might be the first time that my summer is more humid than theirs, lol. It's definitely been weird to throw open the windows after dark and not actually cool my room down much at all, flashbacks to my childhood in the midwest.
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