Golden State Electrifies Home Lighting Bills

Another Golden State 1st: Graduated tax on lighting your home. Now Ca Dems want to fornicate even more with citizens’ income tax returns by giving them to the electric company so they can be charged extra for earning "X" more?

Sounds like it per the critical WSJ op ed summation: “Climate polices are driving up California electric rates to the point progressives says they are discouraging the non-affluent from buying electric vehicles & appliances. Now Democrats plan to double down on their policy distortions by charging electric customers based on income. [They] snuck this second progressive income tax into a budget trailer bill last year that was ostensibly aimed at boosting grid reliability. The new law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to restructure electric rates by imposing a fixed charge on an income-graduated basis. No other investor-owned utilities in the country link electricity costs to income.”

This is no joke. Always remember, as with the state’s reparations movement’s tilting at proverbial windmills [that even Gov Moonbeam 2.0 just disavowed], “The income-based charges are drawing attention as utilities last month submitted rate-design proposals to the commission. Pacific Gas & Electric floated charging customers [additional] fixed fees ranging from $15 a month for those earning less than $28,000 annually, up to $92 a month for those making $180,000 or more.” Note, California’s electric rates have already surged in recent years so they’re TWICE any neighboring state … thanks to a plethora of low-income subsidies, solar panel roof handouts & EV charger rip offs. Plainly, “this is another form of income redistribution [the middle class will mostly fund] … to raise money to finance [progressives’] climate agenda,” which ironically is NOT impacting global warming as billed, if at all (at least, if the UN’s doomsayers’ latest study on the subject is to be believed.) Who else in USA is on board? Joe? Nancy? Chuck? Bernie? Pocahontas? Janet? Don Quixote?

Davd Soul