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The state of California is implementing full Marxism before our very eyes under the guise of “equity.” And so now there can be no possible doubt if there ever was for anyone: instituting Communism has been what “equity” initiatives have been about all along. Now three of its most powerful utility companies are saying that they’re going to charge based not on how much of their product was used, but on how much money the user makes.
In simpler times, if you bought something, you paid for it. Rich or poor, tall or short, black or white, female or male, wise or foolish, everyone paid the same amount for a product. But in our more enlightened era, we know how unjust that really is. It deprives the poor of access to vital goods and services, and that injustice must be redressed.
That’s what Communism is all about, at least in theory: leveling out economic differences between people by confiscating earnings from the rich and awarding them to those who have less. This is the fundamental reason why Marxism, despite its extraordinarily bloody historical record, still appeals to so many people, rich, poor, and in between: it appears to redress the injustices in life and provide everyone with a decent living.
The problem with it arises from the fact that capitalism is inescapable. It is an iron law. It is not actually an economic system that can be discarded and replaced with a better one. It is simply the way human interactions work. If the California utility companies are going to make people who have more money pay more for the same goods and services they could get for less money if they had less, there will be several results: wealthier people will seek to hide their wealth through various means, so as to pay the lower rate. Some enterprising entrepreneurs will make a good living by helping them do this. So from the Marxism of the utility companies will come more capitalism.
Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard. The standard of living will decline, because productivity will have declined. This is why Communist countries have always been economic failures: they block the capitalist incentive that people have to work hard, and thus destroy the only path to prosperity.
That is the disastrous path that Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric are now planning to follow. ABC 7 in Los Angeles reported Friday that the three utility giants “filed a joint proposal this week for a flat-rate charge based on income.”
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mike says
I keep reading that we are living in a time of the fall of an empire
this is not far from the truth
Had a conversion with a friend over the week end who has seen some of the unrest
but thinks I’m over reacting
The Roman empire failed because of liberalism
just about every empire died because they ran out of other peoples money
so one has to wonder just how great our education system is in the western nations
where we allowed the idiots to teach a poison to children over years
Ron says
Look up “The Glubb Report? Fate of Empires by Sir Johnathan Glubb. In all of history past only one empire lasted beyond 250 years and that was Mameluke Empire. If you read what Glubb provides, the USofA has met all of the conditions that preceded the fall/collapse of all other empires.
Given history repeating itself, I doubt we make it any further. Sorry for sounding like Dr. Doom,,, but truth is truth
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
Kevin Christopher Glynn says
I studied “Glubb Pasha”. about 30 years ago. He’s right on the money!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I remember Rush Limbaugh making this argument decades ago, when he said that the fairest tax would be an absolute dollar amount tax that everybody, irrespective of income, would have to pay. When asked why, he asked why not apply it to everything else in life? Like instead of paying $0.50 for a coke (as it was then), enter your salary, let the computer calculate how much you should pay, and if you are Jeff Bezos, pay $100
So now, California is doing this for utilities.How long before the price of everything is based on the customer’s income? Even Apple won’t be able to remain in that state
somehistory says
Well, now, the homeless/unemployed will get their utilities free. If they can only find a place to live, they won’t have to pay for the power to keep cool/warm and to cook food they may not have.
The entire thing is falling apart and that is the plan. And newsome wants to take bden’s fake job and put his dirty shoes on the desk in the Oval Office. “Transform” ..bo promised it, although he didn’t say what it would become after the “transformation.” newsome/biden, harris and others are showing us what he meant.
InfidelLover says
The most important thing is that Communism has never worked anywhere else.
It never worked for Eastern Europe from 1945 – 1985, Russia, China. Cuba is now experimenting with private enterprise and private land. Not a single country has got rich following the tenets of Communism.
It sounds noble but economically it is nothing by a disaster.
Brezhnev, before he died, acknowledged that Communism had been a disaster for Russia.
Deng Xiaoping abandoned Communism in favour of Capitalism in China.
Gavin Newsom should be asked, “Where has this system ever worked?”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
While that’s true, Xi Jin Ping otoh is a true believer in Maoism, and has even more power than Mao ever could have dreamt of, given his state-of-the-art surveillance state, social credits and everything else that has enabled him to enslave over a billion people. Only thing – rather than communism, his regime is a tad more similar to fascism, where the CPC dictates to all Chinese companies what they can and can’t do, both within and outside China
Just like the Kemalist experiment in Turkey is over, similarly the Deng-Jiang-HuJintao era of some limited liberalization is over in China
Paul Bunting says
How soon before the Sales Tax is based on what you make? In fact, certain people might be exempt!
Kepha says
Well, the Land of Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts keeps on electing these same people. What do you expect?
Left Coast Vegetable says
Recently Douglas Moore, Executive Director of United Domestic Workers coauthored an editorial piece in Times of San Diego about “restructuring electric rates to help families”. Well, poo poo poo.
This guy’s base salary is just short of $300,000 per year.
He just negotiated a new contract with UDW and San Diego County to give San Diego workers a $17 an hour. That’s up $1 from minimum wage!!! A 3% increase in the face of 6% BidenFlation.
Would you trust meddling do gooder Socialists with your energy?
Don’t be surprised if somehow Nathan Fletcher, disgraced San Diego County Supervisor joins him on this charade of social justice engineering.
Patriotliz says
Communism and Fascism are anti-“The American Dream,” anti-Capitalism, anti-Freedom and amoral.
The choice in the next election is either our American Founding Principles or Democrat Communism.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.~~Karl Marx
“The poor will always be with you.”~~Jesus who taught individual voluntary charity.
“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”~~JFK
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”~~Margaret Thatcher
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”~~George Santayana
“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”~~paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson.
OLD GUY says
What scary is a lot of people are leaving California for other states. Hope they change their voting practices.
gravenimage says
Sadly, many of them do not, as people in the states they have moved to have sadly discovered.
James Lincoln says
California can barely keep its electrical grid online – NOW.
And, under the new commie utility plan, low earners will have absolutely NO reason to conserve electricity.
Result: more brownouts – and even some full-blown blackouts.
gravenimage says
All too true, James, on both counts.
gravenimage says
California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make
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Yes, I’ve been watching this foolishness unfold here. This also encourages these users not paying for it to use more energy.