Comments on: Poor cap-and-trade revenues batter bullet train budget

By: Bunker Queen

Bunker Queen — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:07:35 +0000

In reply to Ted. Mentor to the doomed....Builder of the FUTURE!. Hi TArdsly!

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Sun, 29 May 2016 14:20:12 +0000

Lots of homeless vets sleeping in cardboard boxes but moonbeam wants to build a railroad to nowhere land

By: Ted. Mentor to the doomed....Builder of the FUTURE!

Ted. Mentor to the doomed....Builder of the FUTURE! — Sat, 28 May 2016 15:08:27 +0000

Cap and Trade—- the darling of the Reagan nursery !!!! LOL

I love the wild Trumpian hypocrites from the tea bag crowd!

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Fri, 27 May 2016 15:13:21 +0000

Pack and Ship Candidates

You worry mightingly for nought. There are so so many poor and borderline homeless people that the social safety net may collapse! Taxing and resdtribution may reach diminishing returns faster than anyone expected.

….we want your business…so there-

If….and when…..no politican or chubby doomer will escape accountability.

By: ricky65

ricky65 — Fri, 27 May 2016 14:07:25 +0000

Just wondering how incompetent the ‘economists’ and fiscal ‘experts’ running this program have to be to be off by a factor of 50:1 in their forecast?
This cap and tax scheme is collapsing even faster than even the harshest critics said it would.
We have to be vigilant now because a desperate CARB will severely restrict the available credits to drive up the price to fewer participants at auction.
So I’m thinking watch out gas prices. Instead of the 12-15 cents per gallon now foisted upon the consumer, you can expect 50 cents to a buck increases very soon.
Always have to laugh when the proponents of cap & tax say this is a ‘market’ approach to reducing pollution. These fools actually believe government controlling the supply of a commodity to drive up prices is true market capitalism works at its best.
Only in a Bernie/Hilary statist fantasy world can government manage the economy efficiently for the benefit of its citizens. I give you Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea as proof.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Fri, 27 May 2016 05:44:27 +0000

Hollywood wanks and their Go Green message while they live their fancy lifestyles the do as i say not as i do liberal Hollywood wanks

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 26 May 2016 20:07:06 +0000

It never had a chance. Cap and Trade was a con just to squeeze money out of industry and the “Train thru nowhere” was just one of Moonbeam’s wet dreams that he wanted us to pay for. Btw, we want our money back since it’s not going to be built.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Thu, 26 May 2016 18:54:20 +0000

“. . . analysts [are] unsure of the system’s long-term viability.” Is ANYONE surprised by this? The one thing that government does well is to overestimate revenues while gulling people on half-baked schemes. But they’ve “raised the bar” with this miscalculation.

How wonderful that the bogus cap and trade revenue stream is the underpinning of the CA HSR system — which itself is based on systemic “miscalculations.”

Let’s be blunt. HSR proponents made no “miscalculations.” They blatantly LIED, and they knew it. EVERY projection was a calculated lie. Still is.

Can I be honest? I’m LOVING this! I doubt that in spendthrift, bonkers CA we can come up with a better example of the folly of government — an example the public can easily understand. And that’s saying something!

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 26 May 2016 17:21:41 +0000

California’s flagship climate change policy Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Initiative was signed into law in 2006 when California was contributing 1% to the worlds green hose gases. And now, 10 years later, by AVOIDING transparency of the results of the California emissions crusade, the state can focus on how to spend the cap and trade funds they receive.

Now, a decade later, California still contributes a miniscule 1 percent ( 1%) and has had little to no impact on the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. With many of the businesses the emit now departed from California, the contributions to the worlds greenhouse gases has actually INCREASED as no other state or country comes close to California which has the most stringent environmental laws and regulations in the world.

Yet, the state, by avoiding transparency of the results of the California emissions crusade remains on a go-it-alone crusade to micro manage the California emissions that generates billions of dollars for the government at the expense of businesses and the financially challenged. With numerous state government agencies there is a feeding frenzy on getting a piece of the lucrative cap and trade tax revenue, yet there remains no progress in California reducing its contribution to the Worlds Greenhouse gasses.

The public, especially the homeless and poor, that are paying dearly for the emissions crusade efforts of the AQMD, deserves to know if there is any progress over the last decade in reducing California’s 1% contribution to the world’s greenhouse gases