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New York plans to ban new gas fueled vehicles - 727Sky - 01-08-2023
California is like a virus that is now spreading to N.Y.
Ken Girardin reacts to New York state proposing a ban on new gas vehicles and other green energy policies.
RE: New York plans to ban new gas fueled vehicles - Ninurta - 01-08-2023
You know, I'm sure there must be some reason folks are escaping from New York and California in droves, and moving to Texas and Florida, but I just can't put my finger on the reason....
Kathy Hochul in New York spent her entire campaign yelling at conservatives to leave, goodbye and good riddance... but all of a sudden during her inauguration address, she spent it begging them to return. I don't think they will, once they get a taste of what freedom tastes like, and dumbass laws like New York is passing isn't helping her case any.
Clearly, Hochul wants Conservatives' taxes desperately, she just doesn't want their votes, because that might impact how their taxes are being wasted spent.
We all know that Caifornia is being run by an Idiocracy, and they are just plain stuck on stupid, passing dumbassed law after dumbassed law, driving even more folks away. New York, in contrast, seems not to have enough native intelligence rising to a level where they can form their own Idiocracy, and so just follows California around like a puppy, even though California laws and policies are slowly choking the state to death. New York just says "oh, okay!" and follows them right down the path of destruction.
New York also just legalized cannabis for recreational use, but seems to be having problems raising retail outlets, and the net result is that illegal "popup" dispensaries are showing up all over New York, with highly questionable quality control. Still, folks are going to buy it where they can, and if the State can't get it's shit tightly enough together to raise controlled dispensaries, entrepreneurs are going to just step right in and handle the demand.
Virginia legalized cannabis too, on July 1, 2021. The cannabis and hemp legal market here is floundering because the legislature cannot get it's shit tightly together enough to figure out how to legally sell it, either. So it's legal to posses, legal to smoke, but illegal to purchase unless one has a medical prescription and can get to one of the far-flung dispensaries. They could, simply enough, just let dispensaries sell legal recreational cannabis in the interim until they can get retail licenses going, but no, that would just be too easy and effective.
One of the holdups is the Liberals insisting on giving sops and hand-outs to their Union buddies. They want to build into law that Union memberships are required for anyone working in the cannabis industry, from growers through processors to retail sales. That's just not going to fly here, because VA is a "right to work" state.
So, again, entrepreneurs step in to handle the demand, creating a thriving black market again. So, after a year and a half of legalization, it's still illegal to buy it... so how are folks supposed to ever get it in order to posses or consume it? The only sort of legal way is to grow your own, also legal now, but there is a catch - the seed is illegal to import into VA, or buy once it is here. The ONLY legal avenue is very narrow - you have to get a "gift" of it from someone, and hope that "gift" has some bag-seed in it. If you run that road, you can then legally plant your hard-won seed and grow your own.
The industrial hemp industry is floundering here, too, but that is down to Federal Idiocracy. Federally, hemp to be legally grown has to be under 0.3% THC content. Problem is, hemp plants have different THC contents at different times, and if a Federal man tests your crop for THC content at the wrong time, if even one plant tests at 0.4% THC or higher, you have to destroy the entire crop. The combination of those factors does not exactly inspire confidence in farmers, so they aren't willing to take the risk of growing a crop all year long that they may have to just destroy and take a loss on at the end of the growing season. I know of at least one, and possibly two, hemp companies formed here to make CBD products in high hopes that they could get farmers here to grow their raw material, but the farmers weren't biting that hook, and so the company had to close down for lack of resources.
"Recreational" cannabis has anywhere between 5% and 30% THC content, so the Feds set the bar way too low, with the result that no one really wants to chance it.
Guerrilla growers, who generally give no shits about Federal hemp regulations, are thriving to supply the thriving black market. It's the modern-day version of moonshining, moonshining for the New Generation. The State (and Feds) take a tax hit on what could be pretty lucrative, just because they can't get their acts together.
Missouri, on the other hand, just legalized cannabis during their last mid-term election, actually approved an amendment to the state constitution making it legal. They hope to have retail sales started as early as next month... because they have their crap together and in one sock. They'll gain more tax revenue in their first month of operations with their piddling 6% tax on it than Virginia has made with their 21% tax on it in an entire year and a half - because Missouri can get the wheels rolling.
Illegal markets don't generate tax revenue, as criminal types generally don't pay taxes on illegal enterprises.
What a half-assed, Idiocratic clown world we live in! Half-assed measure produce less than even half-assed results. Legalizing a thing without thinking through how you're going to sell it to generate your hoped-for taxes will get you a big fat market that pays NO taxes! You'd think a politician could figure that out, but then again, what have politicians EVER figured out?
So you get what we have in VA and NY, and to a lesser extent even California - California has it figured out, but they arrived at the retail table too late, and their black market got entrenched before their legal market did, and it is proving hard to root out and eradicate... much like cannabis cultivation itself.
So long as dumbassed politicians keep stumbling along and making stuff illegal that shouldn't be - necessary stuff, like cars and electricity in NY and CA, for instance - they're not going to get the results they are hoping for, and folks will continue either just breaking the law or leaving.
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