California’s Public Utilities Commission will soon vote on whether to adopt a fixed electricity charge. It looks like it will be based on income.
The Sentinel reported this in March, and now it’s here. Their big brilliant plan is if you make more, you will pay more.
It’s so very socialist of them with its redistribution of wealth from the productive to the non-productive.
They’ve scaled it back, but as income taxes go, that’s just to get its ugly foot in the door. Once in, they can raise it over and over.
With its new reduced fee, it will probably pass. The fee will go from $6 to $24 and will allow the utilities to cut the price of electricity slightly.
In March, the suggested fee was from $11 per month to $128 but, as we said, the new fee is to start:
Households earning $28,000-$69,000 would be charged an extra $20 to $34 per month. Those earning $69,000-$180,000 would pay $51 to $73 per month, and those earning more than $180,000 would pay a $85-to-$128 monthly surcharge.
California has the highest electricity rates in the contiguous US. A former head of the Public Utilities Commission says rates are so high because the CPUC (regulatory commission) is not doing its job.
The solution for every problem is always to go socialist or worse and drain more money from people’s accounts.
“This would be the first state to charge people based on their income rather than what they actually just use,” said Shon Hiatt, director of the USC Business of Energy Transition initiative.
“The problem here has been affordability. While California has focused almost completely on clean energy, it has disregarded reliability and affordability, and costs have continued to escalate. So, one of the (ways) they thought to address affordability (was), ‘Let’s just consider a tax and begin taxing people based on their income to address electricity rates.
Why are they doing this?
Many critics have blamed rich boy Gov. Gavin Newsom and his strict energy mandate that the state be carbon-free by 2035, along with the Democrat’s insistence that lawmakers fast-track the bill with no discussion.
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Electricity has huge taxes already, and they want to take more. Electricity in Illinois is run by democrats. Obama’s people Ayers and Axelrod have deep connections to the electrical industry there. (It’s kind of like the mob being linked to legitimate businesses.)
In Illinois, I changed my electricity provider to a firm in Texas. A law allows contractors to sell us the actual electricity. After I did, 3 ghetto ladies came to my door yelling about how I was avoiding Illinois electrical taxes by doing what I did. How did they know about me?
So now poor drug users can pay for their drugs by running an extension cord over to their neighbors and splitting the difference.
So , the more money a person makes the bigger house they buy the more they pay for electric service and They have a wealth tax on top of that ?
Way to go California
More rich people- and their businesses and the jobs that creates – will leave California.
which in turn will accelerate California’s descent into becoming a hell hole of poverty, crime and misery.
I doubt that, it will depopulate the state, which the rich want. But by the same token people will resort to black market sources of power.
Only the top 5% will leave the rest who are leeches on the taxpayers or the middle class. These taxes only effect those above middle class.
I always said Canadians are smart, eh, hoser?