One more reason to leave CA. They spend so much time on silly things. There is a payoff here, somewhere. Maybe indirect, but laws like this don’t appear out of the goodness of some politician’s heart. It doesn’t work that way. California increasingly behaves like a self-perpetuating political enterprise in which every “solution” creates another constituency, bureaucracy, expenditure, or mandate—and almost nobody inside the system has an incentive to make government smaller. California has so much legislative machinery that seemingly trivial measures can conceal an incentive structure: a favored industry gets a mandate, an advocacy group gets funding or relevance, consultants get contracts, regulators get a larger domain, unions get additional work, or politicians get a constituency they can claim to have served. The payoff doesn’t necessarily arrive as an envelope of cash. Often it’s institutional—money, jobs, influence, campaign support, regulatory power, or another permanent constituency dependent on Sacramento. There is no Goody Two-Shoes in this arrangement. Somebody wanted the law. Somebody benefits from the law. Somebody gets money, power, relevance, protection, or political credit from the law. The trick is finding out who.
Bob: 🅱️ “Sacramento doesn’t manufacture legislation. It manufactures customers.”
I cross the state line going into California to visit relatives on a regular basis. Just before the California state line there are a slew of gas stations doing a very brisk business in Arizona. It seems Californians would rather gas up out of state when it’s economically feasible. That’s a no-brainer.
Now California is going to be sending tire replacement customers to Arizona to purchase replacement tires, really?
One more reason to leave CA. They spend so much time on silly things. There is a payoff here, somewhere. Maybe indirect, but laws like this don’t appear out of the goodness of some politician’s heart. It doesn’t work that way. California increasingly behaves like a self-perpetuating political enterprise in which every “solution” creates another constituency, bureaucracy, expenditure, or mandate—and almost nobody inside the system has an incentive to make government smaller. California has so much legislative machinery that seemingly trivial measures can conceal an incentive structure: a favored industry gets a mandate, an advocacy group gets funding or relevance, consultants get contracts, regulators get a larger domain, unions get additional work, or politicians get a constituency they can claim to have served. The payoff doesn’t necessarily arrive as an envelope of cash. Often it’s institutional—money, jobs, influence, campaign support, regulatory power, or another permanent constituency dependent on Sacramento. There is no Goody Two-Shoes in this arrangement. Somebody wanted the law. Somebody benefits from the law. Somebody gets money, power, relevance, protection, or political credit from the law. The trick is finding out who.
Bob: 🅱️ “Sacramento doesn’t manufacture legislation. It manufactures customers.”
I cross the state line going into California to visit relatives on a regular basis. Just before the California state line there are a slew of gas stations doing a very brisk business in Arizona. It seems Californians would rather gas up out of state when it’s economically feasible. That’s a no-brainer.
Now California is going to be sending tire replacement customers to Arizona to purchase replacement tires, really?
Momma always said; stupid is as stupid does. 🤣