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Affordable housing, or free healthcare for illegal aliens? California will have to choose this weekend.



Photo above - the iconic "Spadena" house, now worth $10 million, was used for a location shot in the film Clueless. The owners may be resisting the construction of affordable housing adjacent to their neighborhood. But Cher (Alicia Silverstone) does look safe and carefree, doesn't she?

How can anyone vote against affordable housing? Well, you can if you're a politician who received big money from wealthy voters in your district to keep that sort of stuff from being built near their ritzy homes. (See link below)

By law, California is required to have a balanced state budget. So at the end of the day they can’t afford EVERYTHING and just borrow endlessly like the federal government.

Governor Newsom – currently in 2nd or 3rd place in the race for 2028 democrat presidential nomination – is walking a tightrope. If he bungles California's budget, he can wave goodbye to the votes of moderate democrats in the other 49 states. Hence, his decision to sacrifice free migrant healthcare, and put state money towards efforts to building more affordable housing.

Unsurprisingly, mansion owners in California aren’t wild about this idea. You know, falling property values, crime increases. Because the governor doesn’t hear their lamentations, they’ve enlisted the state legislature. Campaign contributions loom larger for them, than for Newsom. Both sides can’t win, of course. Unless more cuts are made to police, fire, EMT's, schools, reservoirs, trash collection . . .

California’s budget deficit – which needs to be fixed, before a budget can be passed – is $12 billion. At his point, all the socialists who don’t have 12 hundred dollars in the bank should jump up and down and rant that $12 billion is “small potatoes”. They will regale us with their easy answers: rent controls; higher sales tax; higher gasoline tax; higher income tax; higher property tax.

Except California has already been doing most of those things, since forever. And the problem is getting worse, not better.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

California budget comes down to the wire as Newsom, lawmakers face off over housing
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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
How is tax an "easy answer" for any politician? Are you suggesting that paying tax in America is popular?

Again, rather than just sayin', why not put forward some solutions of your own?
iamthe99 · M
@SunshineGirl What gets me is she claims to be a reasonable anti-Trumper but she parrots far-right, anti-progressive, anti-government views at every turn.

I'm just sayin'...
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SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@SunshineGirl raising taxes is popular among politicians. why do you think we have taxes on everything?

personal income
savings income
dividend income
real estate
sales tax
gasoline tax
cellular tax
alcohol tax
tobacco tax
restaurant tax
hotel tax
Capital gains
Internet
Cable

You made a good start to the list. I’m sure there are more if we put our minds to it.


@SusanInFlorida
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@SusanInFlorida Possibly because public services and entitlements are popular amongst the electorate and have to be paid for somehow?
Of course. Especially the ones doing the bidding of the elite dem libs many of which are returning from Venice. @SunshineGirl
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@SunshineGirl the Simpsons did an excellent episode on this. The voters in springfield wanted to create a "bear patrol" department, and fund it with money taken from real services.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@SusanInFlorida The politicians receive their mandate from such people and somehow have to balance the budget.
Which politicians received the 2025 mandate? @SunshineGirl
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@SunshineGirl if that were true, I'd almost be happy. But the truth is politicians have recently promised/predicted some extraordinary BS that couldn't possibly happen,

1 - building a wall with mexico, and making their government pay for it,

2 - arresting and deporting all illegal aliens with felony charges. Only 6% of those deported in 2025 actually had active warrants. the rest seemed to be gardeners, restaurant workers, crop pickers, roofers, nannies . . .

3 - solving the federal deficit by making obamacare the law of the land

4 - cutting trillions from the US budget through attacking fraud and corruption

5 - forgiving trillions in student loan balances for kids who got took art history and philosophy

6 - making NATO exclusively a European club

7 - free college tuition for everyone, regardless of SAT scores

8 - flat tax

9 - balanced federal budget

10 - stopping climate change with american EV tax subsidies.