It's a Whacky Whacky State

California is the most bizarre place for an election. It has a state mandated ability for any idiot with money to put a Proposition on the ballot for the collective to vote on and make law. This is why the state is excessively hard to manage because many of the voted upon issues have hamstrung the state. This year’s slate includes:

Prop 86: Tax cigarettes another tax of $2.50 per pack ramping up the on the street cost to almost eight dollars. This state loves to tax vilified people without representation – this is outrageous and for no new real reason except that they can. This will lead to bulk market sales of cigarettes and pretty much racateeering. Anyone heard of prohibition? Wait for the “drug” running and the black market affect.

Prop 87: A proposition created by local venture capitalists to create a fund to finance alternative energy issues without any result in sight. And it will create a tax on gasoline. Can you understand anything crazier than a tax on gasoline in these times? – but this is what they are proposing. And they had shills and ads out here by Clinton and Gore that were pure lies and bullshit. It damns me that an ex-President can sell himself for such an ad lowlife prop it is unbelievable. That is the man – a shill. Over and over Clinton – an unelected but former President is telling people that they should tax themselves for funding a bullshit alternative energy fund on behalf of the rest of the country? Impeach the bastard again!

Prop H – an advance on California’s long held stance on NOT increasing property taxes that will purportedly fund low cost housing. While laudable, give developers a lot of money to do something that doesn’t make sense sound stupid to me. Another dumb soak the “rich” effort.

It’s a whacky whack state. I long for Texas.