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Transportation tax hikes an insult to taxpayers

It’s easy to spend money when it’s not your own.  That’s the case with the proposed massive tax hikes on California drivers announced

Reported by Jon Coupal | Wednesday April 5, 2017

Subject: Gov. Jerry Brown.

The $5.2 billion in taxes imposed annually are aimed squarely at the middle class — citizens who see their cars not as a luxury but as a necessity to get to work, take the kids to school and run their errands at the end of a long day.  The governor and his tax-and-spend allies — including interests that get rich off the taxpayer dime — are pushing a gas tax hike of 12 cents per gallon on top of our already high gas tax plus higher vehicle registration fees that average out to about $50 per vehicle. 

Not surprisingly, taxpayers are not buying what the governor is selling.  A Public Policy Institute of California poll shows that a majority of Californians, including 42 percent of Democrats, oppose the taxes.  A recent California Chamber of Commerce poll showed that 80 percent of voters want to see spending reforms first, before new taxes.

There is a good reason for the lack of trust between the people and their government when it comes to transportation spending. General fund spending has increased by $36 billion over the last six years, and not one dime has been spent on transportation infrastructure. If legislators don’t view transportation as a critical priority, why should California drivers support even higher taxes?

Jon Coupal is the President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA). He is a recognized expert in California fiscal affairs and has argued numerous tax cases before the courts.
 
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More News from the Socialist Republic of California: California Forces Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Promote Abortion Programs


waving flagPosted on January 6, 2016 by Philip Hodges

URL of the original posting site: http://lastresistance.com/15598/california-forces-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-to-promote-abortion-programs/#mUsWKDsDXKt0zZyE.99

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Effective January 1st, pro-life pregnancy centers in California have to provide pregnant women with information about free or low-cost abortion options that are offered elsewhere. If these centers refuse to provide that information, they’re fined $500 for the first offense, and $1,000 for every subsequent offense. CNS News reported:

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and the Pacific Justice Institute both filed lawsuits on behalf of six pregnancy centers following Governor Jerry Brown’s signing of the law in October.

Arguing that the law violates their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, the clinics sought preliminary and permanent injunctions against the law. The requests for preliminary injunctions were denied in the past couple of weeks.

The Pacific Justice Institute’s request for injunction was denied on December 21 by U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento.

“Though the public interest favors upholding the First Amendment, the public interest also favors ensuring California women are fully informed as to their reproductive healthcare options,” Mueller argued. She also ruled the centers’ free speech claim was not likely to succeed in court.

“Judge Mueller determined that the interests of the clinics in refusing to promote abortion were outweighed by the interests of the State to ensure women receive information about all their options,” the Pacific Justice Institute said in a statement.Delusional Mental Illness Gibberish

“This ruling should alarm everyone who believes in a robust First Amendment,” said institute president Brad Dacus. “The notion that the government can compel religious non-profits to promote practices antithetical to their values is chilling.”

The rationale is that these women end up not being “fully informed.” Democrats think that pro-life pregnancy centers are deliberately misleading women into believing that their only option is to go through childbirth.

Did it ever cross these pro-abortion politicians’ minds that maybe the whole point of having crisis pregnancy centers is to provide an alternative to abortion? Abortion is the norm nowadays. Everyone knows about it, and especially in a state like California, if a pregnant woman wanted to get an abortion, she could get one.AMEN

Pregnant women go to crisis pregnancy centers, because they’re not sure what to do. They’re scared. They need help. They need someone to talk to. A crisis pregnancy center will provide them with counsel, encouragement, and options, including adoption.

Democrats will of course interpret that as “forced childbirth.” But we could say the same thing about abortion centers. They’re there to talk women into having abortions. They’ll convince the woman that she’s not ready to have a baby. And besides, she doesn’t make enough money, and she’s too young and irresponsible. The only “responsible” and “compassionate” thing to do is to kill the child inside her so that she can get on with her life. Oh, and abortion centers don’t promote crisis pregnancy centers. So, in that case, it’s perfectly fine not to be “fully-informed.”

A woman who chooses to go to a crisis pregnancy center can at any time leave if she’s not satisfied. At no time is she forced to stay there. If the woman decides to have her baby and put her baby up for adoption, that’s her choice, not the pregnancy center’s. While a woman might also choose to go the abortion route, what they conveniently leave out is that that baby’s life is not hers or the doctor’s to take.

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Governor Moonbeam Makes the Use of the Words Husband and Wife Illegal in California


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 URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.tpnn.com/2015/05/28/governor-moonbeam-makes-the-use-of-the-words-husband-and-wife-illegal-in-California/
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In the state of California, heterosexual married couples can no longer be referred to as husbands and wives. Democrat Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that not only redefines marriage, but eliminates any reference to husband and wife, replacing each with the generic term “spouse.”

SB 1306 was sponsored by Democrat Mark Leno from San Francisco. Christian News Network reports on the content of said bill:

“Under existing law, a reference to ‘husband’ and ‘wife,’ ‘spouses,’ or ‘married persons,’ or a comparable term, includes persons who are lawfully married to each other and persons who were previously lawfully married to each other, as is appropriate under the circumstances of the particular case,” it reads. “The bill would delete references to ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ in the Family Code and would instead refer to a ‘spouse,’ and would make other related changes.”

Leno sponsored the bill after Proposition 8, in which California voters said no to same-sex marriage, was declared unconstitutional by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court refused to overturn it. State Rep. Leno said of his legislation, “This legislation removes outdated and biased language from state codes and recognizes all married spouses equally, regardless of their gender.”Liberalism a mental disorder 2

In response to Governor Brown striking the term husband and wife from all family code, attorney Matthew Reynolds addressed his actions as a ‘raw exercise of power.”

“This bill continues the pattern we’ve been seeing the last few years of politicians ignoring the people to advance the agenda of marriage redefinition,” Matthew McReynolds, attorney with the Pacific Justice Institute in California, told Christian News Network. “What these politicians don’t want people to know is that their actions are illegitimate. Contary to media myths, Prop. 8 has not been invalidated on a statewide basis. Instead, these politicians are exercising raw power, ignoring the Constitution and counting on the people and the courts not to hold them accountable.”Picture1

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Why Does This Liberal “Utopia” Have the Nation’s Highest Poverty Rate?


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Cloward PivenTheState of California,formerly the most powerful economic force in the United States outperforming the economies of all but a very few countries in the world, is now the nation’s leader in acategory that the formerly conservative, but now overwhelmingly progressively liberal and Democrat Party-controlled state, has to find embarrassing.

According to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, California, which has been losing jobs to lower taxed, less state regulated states, now sports the nation’s highest rate of poverty, with almost one quarter (23.4%) of its residents living in poverty. 

A depressing 8.9 million of the progressive controlled Golden State’s 38 million population are living in poverty in the once prosperous formerly conservative-run state.

Democrat-controlled Washington, D.C. came in at 22.4% 

RELATED:  California Democrat Governor in Mexico: Give Us More Illegals to Take Care of

A similar study by the Public Policy Institute of California affirmed the state’s poverty rate at 22%, with some of the highest rates being in the “progressive” San Francisco area.

Los Angeles, which has been hijacked by the far left, had the highest poverty rate in the state at 26.9%.

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Governor Jerry Brown’s Official Police State


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California: APPS: Protect Yourself if the Government Comes for Your Guns

Posted on January 27, 2014 //  http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2014/1/california-apps-protect-yourself-if-the-government-comes-for-your-guns.aspx

Attention residents of the City of Los Angeles and Orange County:

We recently learned that local law enforcement entities are conducting firearm confiscation raids in your area on behalf of the California Department of Justice, as part of its Armed Prohibited Persons System (“APPS”) program.  These raids are typically conducted without search warrants.  

Be prepared!  While these raids are promoted by politicians as intended to disarm dangerous criminals, they actually more often target unsuspecting citizens who present no danger and have no idea that they are prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition.

Watch this video for background on APPS’s shortcomings and injustices, and this revealing video in review of a former DOJ Special Agent who formerly conducted APPS raids.

For an overview of how these confiscations are conducted, and information about your rights when subjected to one, read this memorandum.

If you are uncertain if you are prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition, check your eligibility by submitting a Personal Firearms Eligibility Check application to the California Department of Justice.

If you are prohibited from possessing firearms, contact an attorney to discuss how best to restore your rights and comply with the law.

If law enforcement shows up at your home asking about firearms:

  • Don’t talk!  Officers are trained to get people to make statements that provide “probable cause” to search and seize.  Try not to even open the door.

  • Instead, provide the officers with this flyer, or tell the officers that you assert your right to remain silent and want to have an attorney present (actually say those words).

  • Do NOT “consent” to a search of your person, possessions, or home.  Insist on a search warrant.  If they don’t have a warrant, refuse the search entirely and close the door.

  • Consult a lawyer immediately.

  • Confirm whether you may legally possess firearms and learn your rights!  Don’t take the rap for APPS!

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About NRA-ILA

The Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the lobbying arm of the NRA. Established in 1975, ILA is committed to preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
ILA’s ability to fight successfully for the rights of America’s law-abiding gun owners directly reflects the support of NRA’s nearly 5 million members—a number that has more than tripled since 1978. When restrictive “gun control” legislation is proposed at the local, state or federal level, NRA members and supporters are alerted and respond with individual letters, faxes, e-mails and calls to their elected representatives to make their views known.

In 1986, the NRA and millions of gun owners nationwide applauded as the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. ILA worked for more than a decade to secure passage of that historic legislation to reform the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Combined with the strong grassroots efforts of NRA members and NRA-affiliated state associations and local gun clubs, the Institute has worked vigorously to pass pro-gun reform legislation at the state level.
These efforts include enacting laws that recognize the right of honest citizens to carry firearms for self-protection; preemption bills to prevent attacks on gun owner rights by local anti-gun politicians, and fighting for legislation to prevent the bankrupting of America’s firearms industry through reckless lawsuits.
The Institute is also involved in educating the public about the facts concerning the many facets of firearms ownership in America. Through the distribution of millions of printed fact sheets, brochures and articles annually and the posting information and the latest news daily on its Internet site (www.nraila.org), the Institute provides facts about responsible firearms ownership, the Second Amendment and other topics.
In NRA Headquarters in Fairfax, Va., and in offices in Washington, D.C., and in Sacramento, Calif., the Institute employs a staff of more than 80, with a team of full-time lobbyists defending Second Amendment issues on Capitol Hill, in state legislatures and in local government bodies.
While NRA is a single-issue organization, the Institute is involved in any issue that directly or indirectly affects firearms ownership and use. These involve such topics as hunting and access to hunting lands, wilderness and wildlife conservation, civilian marksmanship training and ranges for public use, law enforcement-related issues, product liability, trapping, crime victim rights and criminal justice reform.

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