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Let’s see if California cities ignore Federal Warrants.

Home to criminals?

Let’s see if California cities ignore Federal Warrants.

This will be a test and if successful, I’m sure it will be used nationwide. California blue cities have a habit of ignoring requests for the jails to turnover criminals housed in lockups.So now the Feds are going to do this.

The Department of Justice on Monday announced a plan to crack down on California’s “sanctuary law” that prohibits law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials.

DOJ is going to “flood the system with warrants for criminal illegal immigration that are in county jails, they can ignore a detainer, but they cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant.

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Are you overtaxed living in California?

Bye Bye blue states.

Are you overtaxed living in California?

Whether or not someone feels “overtaxed” in California is subjective and depends on individual circumstances and perspectives
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However, some data and observations about California’s tax system that could contribute to this feeling include:
High Income Tax Rates:

California has the highest marginal income tax rate in the nation, topping out at 13.3% on income over $1 million.
Even for lower earners, the progressive tax system means a portion of their income is subject to rates as high as 12.3%.
Some sources suggest that California’s income tax burden is higher than the average of both all other states and other western and industrial states.

Sales Tax:

California has a base sales tax rate of 7.25%, which is the highest in the country, and the combined state and local sales tax can reach as high as 11.25% in some cities.
The average combined state and local sales tax rate is 8.85%, which is the eighth highest in the nation.

Cost of Living:

California’s overall cost of living is significantly higher than the national average, especially regarding housing, which is more than twice as expensive.
This high cost of living, coupled with high taxes, could contribute to the feeling of being overtaxed, even for those who do not fall into the highest income brackets.

Public Opinion:

According to a Public Policy Institute of California survey, 71% of adults in California think the state and local tax burden per capita is high compared to other states, and 7 out of 10 residents feel they are paying more than they should in state and local taxes.

Counterarguments/Context:

While income taxes are high, California’s property tax rates are lower than the national average.
The progressive income tax system means that those with lower incomes pay a lower tax rate than they might in a flat tax state.
Some sources argue that California’s higher income tax burden is offset by a lower combined burden for other taxes.
The revenue generated through taxes funds various state services, including public welfare and education

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You still haven’t figured that out. Your party is out of order.

Democrat Senator Adam Schiff (CA) is apparently just now realizing that Democrats need to “change how we do business” in liberal areas that are overrun with crime, drugs, and homelessness, citing an encounter with a Target cashier who told him the hard truth about the Democratic party.

You still haven’t figured that out. Your party is out of order.

Senator Schiff was given a reality check about how bad his party has become under Democrat rule. He says he gets it, but does he really? Here’s some of what the cashier at a Target told him.

“The party that locked everyone in their homes during COVID, bullies people into silence, and allows criminals and the dregs of society to terrorize everyday Americans are “assholes,” Schiff’s response?

“And I thought, you know, if the cashier in South San Francisco at 10 o’clock at night believes that Democrats are assholes because the shampoo is locked up, and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk, we’ve got a major problem that we have to address.”

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How California can create 500,000 to 1 million jobs. Send them home.

Newsom can make California great again.

How California can create 500,000 to 1 million jobs. Send them home.

According to state data, roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants are currently enrolled in Medi-Cal, part of the program’s total 15 million enrollees. The state had initially projected the expansion would cost just under $6 billion for fiscal year 2024–2025. But just one year in, the costs have surged far past that estimate.

Newsom’s latest budget proposal now puts the cost of covering illegal immigrants at $8.4 billion for 2024–2025, and $7.4 billion the following year.

Think about it. Sending them home would create jobs for US citizens and legal immigrants. Also this would add at least 8 billion to their coffers.

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What is justifiable force when your home is invaded by a burglar?

California Assemblyman and Democrat Caucus Chair, Rick Chavez Zbur

What is justifiable force when your home is invaded by a burglar? California has what’s called a Castle Doctrine.

  • Fear of Death or Great Bodily Harm: Lethal force only permitted when serious physical injury or fatality is reasonably feared.
  • Proportional Response Only: No more force than appears minimally necessary to end the threat in the moment.
  • Unlawful Invasions Only: Intruders must have illegally entered or be attempting entry to justify lethal reactions.
  • But a California state rep I guess is tired of losing Democrat voters so he has a new bill. Here are some of the changes to the law this person wishes to make.
  • Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in any all of the following cases:
    (1) When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, person or to do some great bodily injury upon any person.
    (2) When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against one who manifestly intends and endeavors, of a person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors in a violent, riotous, or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein.
    (3) When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a spouse, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; but such person, or the person in whose behalf the defense was made, if he or she was the assailant or engaged in mutual combat, must really and in good faith have endeavored to decline any further struggle before the homicide was committed. to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished.

    (4)When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any felony committed, or in lawfully suppressing any riot, or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace.

    California is currently a ‘stand your ground’ state, but that would change. The state rep shows his true colors.Kyle Rittenhouse syndrome.

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California Coastal Commission must be abolished.

California Coastal Commission must be abolished.

  • Ric Grenell, a longtime ally of President Trump, said “there will be conditions” to the coming aid, echoing previous warnings from both men in recent days.
  • Grenell said the California Coastal Commission “needs to absolutely be defunded.”

Initiated by voters and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in his first term, the 1976 Coastal Act was a response to unregulated shoreline development. Almost immediately after its passage, beachfront owners and interest groups across the state began pushing to amend or repeal sections of the law.

Grenell told the audience. “Everyone who’s involved knows that the California Coastal Commission is a disaster, and it needs to absolutely be defunded. And from just a way to think about government, we already have local government making these decisions.

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California fires. California. How funny is this? Leftist Virtue(!) Unions

How funny is this? Union thug said he wanted to rake all the forests in Southern California, and he couldn’t buy a rake.

Michael Garrett with the Mendocino Hotshots uses a drip torch to ignite vegetation during a prescribed burn in Dry Meadow at Stanislaus National Forest near Pinecrest, Calif., in 2023. Stephen Lam/The Chronicle

How funny is this? Union thug said he wanted to rake all the forests in Southern California, but he couldn’t buy a rake.

A Union thug obviously didn’t check with the US Forest Service or the Department of Interior.who said no such thing was true.

A U.S. Forest Service spokesperson said that no wild-land firefighting or other public safety positions were cut in staff reductions.

A Department of Interior spokesperson emphasized that the vegetation reduction work had not necessarily been cut but is “undergoing review” to determine whether “funding decisions to be consistent with the President’s Executive Orders” as well as “all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders.”

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Stupidity already started in California. Gavin Newsom to Victims of California Fires: ‘You Can’t Rebuild the Same, Have to Rebuild With Climate Reality in Mind’.

Stupidity at its finest.

Stupidity already started in California. Gavin Newsom to Victims of California Fires: ‘You Can’t Rebuild the Same, Have to Rebuild With Climate Reality in Mind’.

Less than 24 hours after going to Washington and kissing Trumps ass, Newsom goes back to his mind set that makes the fires worse. He’s telling the folks who are going to rebuild that you have to go along with the Science deniers and build climate friendly housing.

Gavin Newsom just appeared on CNN and explained that people ‘can’t rebuild the same.’ Newsom suggests that there is a new reality due to the ‘science’ and climate change, and that all of that has to be taken into account as people rebuild.

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The man’s not wrapped too tightly. California DA.

Finally a win. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

The man’s not wrapped too tightly. California DA.

Back in 2015 you had two Journalists who recorded Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation (NAF), and biomedical research companies regarding the alleged trafficking of aborted baby body parts.

In 2017 Kamala charged them. Accusing them of violating a state recording law. After almost nine years, a settlement was reached. Below is that agreement.

Daleiden and Merritt in exchange for a “no contest” plea on a single video recording charge. The “no contest” plea will be entered into judgment as a misdemeanor in six to 12 months and then converted into a “not guilty” plea before being dismissed and expunged, according to CMP.

The so-called AG’s comment on the case.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the plea deal on Tuesday as a “felony conviction” and pitched it as a pro-abortion victory.

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That we know of. An estimated 1.8 million undocumented Californians shitting their pants.

Counting all 10 million.

That we know of. An estimated 1.8 million undocumented Californians shitting their pants.

I read in the Sacramento Bee where the undocumented are crying that they might get caught and sent back home. We know the numbers higher, but even if we do get rid of 1.8 million in California it’s a good start.

Last week’s U.S. Border Patrol operation in Kern County offered a preview of what could come. The enforcement activity, which immigration advocates said was the largest in the Central Valley in years, sent panic across California. The arrests signaled that not even California and its progressive policies would be safe from Trump’s vow of mass deportations.

One of the undocumented was crying because she claimed that the undocumented were being treated as criminals. Excuse me, but you are criminals by being here illegally.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article298541163.html#storylink=cpy