The Sages of Sacremento...

Unbelievable, it is – the idea that there are sages (of the human kind, not the botanical kind) in Sacremento.  The dominant human species in Sacremento is homo bozocus, as this article amply demonstrates.  The “logic” of the Sacremento Sages appears to be something like this: (a) social security isn't adequate to pay for a decent retirement in California, (b) companies have lots of money and nothing worthwhile to spend it on, and (c) therefore, let's make companies pay for retirement!  Then there's the added bonus of a cornicopia of corruption opportunities opened up by the possibility of handing out exemptions to favored industries (e.g., those that send money to the politicians).

This bill has already passed the Senate, is almost certain to pass the Assembly, and then it heads to Governor Moonbeam.  I have no intuition at all about his reaction, other than to forecast that his statements about his decision (whichever way he goes) won't make any sense.

It doesn't matter to me whether this bill turns into law or not.  The very fact that it passed even one half of our legislature is more than sufficient information for me.  California has gone off the cliff; it's heading the way of Greece, Detroit, and other such socialist/corruptocratic regimes.  Recovery to anything resembling the country I was born into seems like a vanishingly small possibility.  Time for us to get out, just as soon as we can arrange it...