How Great a Divide

[WoundedKnee]

This example is classic:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/conser...-for-political-discrimination-and-defamation/

"Equally significant is the violation of California’s Unruh Act (California Civil Code §51 et seq.) Under the Unruh Act, a place of public accommodation may not discriminate against any person based on a personal characteristic representing a trait, condition, decision, or choice fundamental to a person's identity, beliefs and self-definition as that factor has been applied in previous cases...The protection of the Unruh Act extends to political affiliation."

I thought the folks out West had settled this argument..., but they seem to have left themselves a carveout because everyone knows conservatives are Racists and that has become perceived criminal (hate) thought. How lovely. You can discriminate against conservatives.



These are the grandchildren of the Fabian Society's H.G. Wells.

 

[RobDownSouth]

^^^The success of the California economy due to it's high-tax, high-services infrastructure rattles the sensibilities of ivory tower Glibertarians like our unemployed Chief.

 

[Chancellor_Palpatine]

This example is classic:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/conser...-for-political-discrimination-and-defamation/



These are the grandchildren of the Fabian Society's H.G. Wells.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://www.desktopbackground.org/p/2015/05/27/954933_158-anarchy-hd-wallpapers_1440x1152_h.jpg

 

[WoundedKnee]

*chuckle*

Some people will always rise to your expectations. But, whatever gets them out of the gutter from time-to-time.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Rise???


That there thingie was a drop inlet . . . .

 

[WoundedKnee]

tee hee

 

[Rightguide]

Californian "Americans," a small and diminishing demographic, just managed to turn in a million initiative signatures to put Brown's latest attempt to sink the economy on the ballot this November. Yes, people will be able to vote on his draconian gas tax theft designed to fund the exploding liabilities of the state's public employee pension plan.

 

[Chancellor_Palpatine]

Californian "Americans," a small and diminishing demographic, just managed to turn in a million initiative signatures to put Brown's latest attempt to sink the economy on the ballot this November. Yes, people will be able to vote on his draconian gas tax theft designed to fund the exploding liabilities of the state's public employee pension plan.

*points and laughs*

 

[WoundedKnee]

Californian "Americans," a small and diminishing demographic, just managed to turn in a million initiative signatures to put Brown's latest attempt to sink the economy on the ballot this November. Yes, people will be able to vote on his draconian gas tax theft designed to fund the exploding liabilities of the state's public employee pension plan.

Why do you conservatives HATE the environment?
You just want to nickel and dime it to death.



Maybe we'll burn your lawn.

 

[Hypoxia]

^^^The success of the California economy due to it's high-tax, high-services infrastructure rattles the sensibilities of ivory tower Glibertarians like our unemployed Chief.

California ranks at the low end of total tax loads per state. Dum-run shithole Illinois is on top, followed by Gup-run paradises Kansas and Wisconsin. I don't have a quick glib quote to explain "the success of the California economy" but I bet surfing is involved. Silicon Valley is just a few miles from great beaches.

PS: I've seen the notion that LAWS are a state's operating system, and a complex machine running a faster OS than its competitors will out-perform them. The right-wing goal seems to downgrade a Linux system to CP/M. Duh.

USA runs a huge budget deficit. California has a surplus. Which OS rocks?

 

[WoundedKnee]

Yeah, how's that light rail project going?
There are two Californias. One is high tax and high income with lots of infrastructure and lots of elite types and then there is pretty much everyone else. Things are not all that good for them and they get dictated to by the concentrated areas of wealth.

 

[Que]

California ranks at the low end of total tax loads per state. Dum-run shithole Illinois is on top, followed by Gup-run paradises Kansas and Wisconsin. I don't have a quick glib quote to explain "the success of the California economy" but I bet surfing is involved. Silicon Valley is just a few miles from great beaches.

PS: I've seen the notion that LAWS are a state's operating system, and a complex machine running a faster OS than its competitors will out-perform them. The right-wing goal seems to downgrade a Linux system to CP/M. Duh.

USA runs a huge budget deficit. California has a surplus. Which OS rocks?

Robbing your retirees medical benefit plan and pensions does not equal running a surplus, you dulllard.

 

[WoundedKnee]

They have no idea how underfunded states like California and Illinois are, the logical outcome of public-sector unions negotiating with the people whose campaigns they financed. The pliant politicians know that some of that money is coming back and when it crashes, they will already be retired with their government pension.

 

[WoundedKnee]

You changed your post and left me hanging, however, both are true.

Now who is going to pay to make that light rail actually go somewhere?
Are the elites of California going to raise taxes on the middle class or are they going to try to get it out of Washington D.C.?

 

[WoundedKnee]

California Dreamin'

In applying a convoluted new test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor, the California Supreme Court may be dimming the lights on the brightest spot in the state’s economy. The high court’s unanimous decision on Monday will likely force app-based tech firms, many of which are based in the Bay Area, to reclassify most of their workers as employees, which undermines the entire cost-saving labor model that has enabled them to thrive.

...

“The ruling did not resolve that case,” reported the Los Angeles Times, “but defined independent contractors for lower courts that are grappling with the dispute.” That definition may be precedential, though, and could drive up labor costs by 20 percent to 30 percent for businesses that are trying to function in a state that already has bone-crushing labor regulations.

https://spectator.org/ruling-poses-existential-threat-to-tech-firms/

 

[bellisarius]

https://spectator.org/ruling-poses-existential-threat-to-tech-firms/

From that same article;

I hear from business people who complain that they follow all the rules but must deal with new competitors that operate in gray areas. They get angry at the underground economy and often back state efforts to crack down on unlicensed workers or other businesses that have found a way to get out from under all these burdens. I feel their pain, but if it weren’t for these “workarounds,” we’d have little economic freedom left in this state. And businesses ought to be really careful before giving the state wider latitude to conduct raids on private workplaces.

How long now have we been discussing how the governments, all of them although the worst are democrat run, are all about protectionism and status quo? Progressive indeed!

 

[WoundedKnee]

There's a lot of interesting stuff in that piece.
There seems to be a great tension building there between the lofty, noble rulers and the "deplorable" ruled.

 

[Hypoxia]

Remember the Alamo: California Republicans face an existential moment

The California Republican Party convention begins Friday in San Diego, and the expectations for the weekend are - if we're being polite - modest. If we're being real, they're lower than dirt. The party faces an existential moment. With only 25 percent of California voters registered as Republicans, it's Battle of the Alamo time.

Since 2000 CA has gone from mostly Gup to mostly Dum and it's not because Gups seemed sane. Gups rants and actions have quite alienated diverse thriving populations by cosseting their dying demographic.

Meanwhile, in some agricultural states also hosting big cities, it was common for the rural minority to dominate the urban majority in state gov't. Is that fair? The other trend is for the metropolis (or county seat or state capitol) to ignore or exploit the rural nethers. Is this fair?

It'd be nice to have politics based on fairness. But get those fucking reindeer off my roof!

 

[WoundedKnee]

And, of course, that is good for California because it keeps the good times rolling.