Gavin Newsom, well on his way to being recalled, is digging himself a deeper hole, if that is even possible. Here is what he said during the “State of the State.”
“We’re not going back to normal after pandemic because normal accepts inequity.”
It would be hard to find a better example of white privilege, than Gavin Newsom. When he talks about inequity, he is not talking about himself, he is talking about you. None of this equity is aimed at Democratic politicians. They do occasionally discuss this, over dinner at the French Laundry, but they never consider the little people their equals.
What this really means is that Democrats, again, are seizing the day to use a crisis to push through their liberal agenda. This agenda is not designed to help anyone, other than Democrats in retaining power. In my opinion, Newsom can’t even spell equity, yet understand it. This is totally about identity politics, without regard to the actual impact on people.
What makes this so disturbing is that it is so destructive. I often wonder if the minorities who are the target of these program recognize the insult. “Here, let me help you, you little people.” It is arrogance, self-righteous and incredibly insulting. The inevitable result is damage to those it pretends to support. If people survive based on handouts or one-time gifts, they may be setting themselves up for disaster. It is really this simple, at some point liberals always run out of money and the handouts are replaced with handcuffs.
This explains the signs posted near a local pond saying please don’t feed the geese. The reason is that the geese need to learn how to find their own food. If they fill up on easy food handed out by someone thinking they are generous, they become dependent on that food. When that food goes away, the geese die.
There is an old saying. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Once again, Democrats are planning on giving massive handouts, with money borrowed from us, as part of a strategy guaranteed to fail. What Newsom is proposing, by making this a more equitable state, is certain to do the exact opposite. At the same time his idiotic lockdown policies based on zero science are destroying jobs and our economy, he is planning on fixing the problem by redistributing income.
We do need to redistribute income, but not by taking money from the hardworking middle class and giving it to people unwilling or unable to work. We need to take it from the super rich, like Gavin Newsom, and give it to be ready, willing, and able to work for it.
It is critical to understand the difference between tax rates and tax paid. If you raise tax rates on the middle class, they will pay more in taxes. But if you raise taxes on the rich, they will just spend more money avoiding tax. That is why the super rich are so willing to propose a tax on the rich. They know they won’t pay it. The reason is quite simple and easy to understand if you are not a Democrat. Most of us need income to pay for food and housing and transportion etc. We have some, but limited, disposable income. But rich people only need a small portion of their “income” to pay for these things. So they can distribute assets and income to avoid paying tax. If you raise the tax rates on these people, they may pay less tax, because they will just spend more money on consultants, accountants and tax attorneys. If we just required the rich to pay a simple but collectible tax, we would probably get a lot more money.
The proposal by Newsom is gruesome because it benefits no one, encourages people to do things that increases the cycle of poverty and it is funded by money he is borrowing from people like you and me.
TDM