Thread: Gov. Brown Wants $52 Billion Tax Increase to Fix Transportation

Originally Posted by MW

. . . illegal immigration is a huge financial drain to the state and negatively impacts every California tax paying citizen.

YES.
And the federal government let them come here
and the federal government needs to take all of them out.

The states weren't the ones who left the border open and let them in

and the states aren't allowed to deport them.

This is all on the federal government.

Trump is going to end illegal immigration in the United States once and for all, but he's also going to ask state and local law enforcement to help with that big project. He'll get help from many, perhaps not all. San Diego is going to help him as I'm sure many other California communities will decide to do.

San Diego-area mayors stand together to oppose making California a sanctuary state

Cigarette Prices Will Jump $2 in California on April 1

POSTED 6:01 PM, MARCH 30, 2017, BY KARMA DICKERSON, UPDATED AT 04:53PM, MARCH 30, 2017

SACRAMENTO -- Smokers and the businesses that serve them are gearing up for a major tax hike.

Starting Saturday, the price of cigarettes increases by $2 a pack.

The price of all other tobacco products is going up as well.

Land Park’s Cigarettes and Tobacco store has only been open a few months. Inside they are still stocking their shelves, but most of the new merchandise is glassware for marijuana use. It’s part of their plan to focus less on tobacco and more on marijuana since with the imminent tax increase they are already seeing people buying less tobacco.

For example, one shopper who only wanted to be identified as “Nancy” told FOX40 she plans to stop smoking after Saturday, and she’s not necessarily happy about it. Though she has been wanting to quit, as of April 1, she feels she’ll be forced to do so.

“There’s simply no way I could afford to continue smoking it would cut into groceries, and that’s not acceptable,” said Nancy.

Effective April 1, the cigarette tax in California more than triples from $.87 cents to $2.87 meaning every posted cigarette price will go up by at least two dollars. It’s an unwelcome April Fool’s joke of sorts to customers who hadn’t heard the news yet.

While some smokers who spoke to FOX40 were preparing to cut back, others were stocking up on cartons for the short term and planning to figure out the rest later.

Staff at Cigarettes and Tobacco said they have had an increase in customers buying cartons of cigarettes.

Cigarette smokers aren’t the only ones affected. April 1, e-cigarette products containing nicotine will start to be taxed in the same way as other nicotine products like cigars and chewing tobacco, at a rate of 27.3 percent of wholesale costs.

Then, July 1, the price of all non-cigarette nicotine products from vaping juice to loose tobacco to cigarillos will increase to be in line with that of the cigarette tax.

“I agree with it mainly for teenagers, 18- to 21-year-olds, athletes, it discourages them from smoking, so I agree with it,” said Kristin Dauphine

Although she says she has no plans to quit smoking, Dauphine doesn’t oppose the tax, and she’s not the only one.

Collin Winget said he voted for Prop 56, the November ballot initiative that brought the tax about.

“It results in higher health care costs and higher costs to our community, I’m fine with paying a tax on it,” he said.

California has one of the lowest cigarette taxes it the country, more than 80 cents below the national average of $1.63. With the implementation of this tax, California will have the ninth highest statewide tax rate in the country. New York is first at $4.35.

http://fox40.com/2017/03/30/cigarett...ia-on-april-1/

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

YES.
And the federal government let them come here
and the federal government needs to take all of them out.

The states weren't the ones who left the border open and let them in

and the states aren't allowed to deport them.

This is all on the federal government.

Regardless of how hard you try, attempting to completely abdicate California of all guilt in regards to the illegal immigrant problem in the state just isn't going work. California's resistance to federal immigration law, along with the states policies and laws that aid, shield, and encourage illegals has a lot to do with creating the state's illegal immigrant problem. To deny this is absolutely ludicrous.

If the federal government had controlled the border, as they are supposed to, no state would have to deal with any illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

If the federal government had controlled the border, as they are supposed to, no state would have to deal with any illegal aliens.

True, but that still doesn't excuse what's going on in California.

The United States has 5,000 ICE Agents and 10,000 Border Patrol Agents for a total of 15,000 people to secure our borders and ports. States and local law enforcement have 800,000 sworn, trained and equipped police officers.

Now you tell me who should and should not be involved with securing our borders and ports? 15,000 federal agents or 815,000 federal, state and local law enforcement officers?

Who is costing more? Who eats more donuts? Who has the lower per officer arrest rate? Who arrests 1.5 million non violent drug offenders but refuses to arrest illegal aliens?

Yeah, those guys need to be ready and willing to help our country secure our borders and ports by all reasonable means and directly aid in the arrest and deportation of all illegal aliens in the United States on the earliest possible date.

For some California sheriffs, it's not politics stopping them from fully helping ICE: It's the legal risk

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