It's easy. Just a little gas tax hike. And then tax hikes on property, soda and oxygen. Then Governor Moonbeam can accuse complaining taxpayers of being freeloaders.
With the liberation of Americans from ObamaCare, there's been a push to get socialized medicine going in California. It's easy. As we're told incessantly by Bernie Sanders supporters. It just takes more money than California has.
The price tag is in: It would cost $400 billion to remake California’s health insurance marketplace and create a publicly funded universal heath care system, according to a state financial analysis released Monday.
California would have to find an additional $200 billion per year, including in new tax revenues, to create a so-called “single-payer” system, the analysis by the Senate Appropriations Committee found. The estimate assumes the state would retain the existing $200 billion in local, state and federal funding it currently receives to offset the total $400 billion price tag.
. The cost is higher than the $180 billion in proposed general fund and special fund spending for the budget year beginning July 1.
So double up.
It's not as if businesses or individuals are fleeing California to avoid the high taxes. And give it 5 minutes and we'll have a whole series of Voxplanations on how we can have free everything for everyone if we can just force Apple and Google to bring back its money from overseas. And mint that trillion dollar coin.
Numbers to leftists are just something invented by dead white men that can be safely ignored when a progressive policy priority is at stake.