The Sky is the Limit for CA Lawmakers Raising our Taxes!

You think that they have run out of ways to tax you?  Think again.
Despite record revenues, the State of California is asking us to approve $14 billion in bonds (Propositions 1, 3, and 4).  This is after the State, County and City have hit us up for over $15 billion over the last two years.  

Over the last four years, we have also approved bonds that will allow the State to issue over $20 billion of debt. These bonds will have an average carrying cost of $1.2 billion a year for the next thirty years.  

In 2020, the State is expected to place on the ballot two propositions that will raise our taxes by an estimated $20 billion.  

These include the “split roll” which would amend Proposition 13.  This will allow County assessors            to value commercial properties at market value as opposed to the current system of relying on the            purchase price.  This would raise an estimated $10 billion a year for local governments. 

The Legislature led by the profligate Senator Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) isproposing to apply the sales tax to services provided by accountants, lawyers, and other professionals.  The anticipated haul is $10 billion a year.  

Sacramento is also discussing two bonds offerings for $5 billion, $2 billion for the University of California and $3 billion to finance the deferred maintenance on the State’s neglected parks.  The annual carrying cost is estimated to average $325 million over the next thirty years. 
 
Of course, this is in addition to the revenues derived from the Cap-and-Trade program, a significant portion of which is devoted to the not so fast Bullet Train boondoggle.  According to Legislative Analyst Office, Cap-and-Trade will add 24 to 73 cents to the cost of a gallon of gas.  This will cost drivers about $2.5 to $7.5 billion.  Call it $5 billion.  Over the last two years, our share of the new taxes is $2.4 billion.  This works out to be $600 a person or $2,400 for a family of four.  This is the equivalent of bumping the sales tax to 13% or an increase in our property taxes of 45%. 

Need I say more?

Our legislators are drunk with power and have no self-discipline to control their spending – of OUR tax dollars. 

When will we say ENOUGH?

Now!  The time had come for 51.  What can you do to bring this insanity to a halt?  Joins us on behalf of liberty and freedom and the right to be self-governing citizens of a state that honors our constitution.

We can, and we will, separate and form a new state.  Stand with us.  Join us as we move forward, step by step to freedom once again, to what our founders intended and what we need to hand off to our posterity.

Join us now.
 
You have the chance to make a difference.  Will you be the difference?  Will you be the one who will put us over the finish line?  We cannot do this without you.  So join with us.  Make it happen! 

​IN SHEEP ATTACKS at the Loyalton Future Farmers of America (FFA) barn at the high school on September 27th and October 1st, six sheep have now died. Four are being treated for injuries by the veterinary. Their prized ram has yet to stand.
Based on information obtained, the owners were identified and two dogs seized according to Loyalton Municipal Code. The owners requested a hearing before the Board of Supervisors and Sierra County Counsel was contacted to get the process started.
According to Sgt. Mike Fisher with the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office, there was a 1993 City of Loyalton and County Health Officer animals services contract which had been cancelled.
More research led to a 2009 MOU between the City of Loyalton and Sierra County Sheriff’s’ Office for general law enforcement including traffic but "to the extent that the Sheriff's Office provides animal control services within the unincorporated area of the County this MOU shall not include the Sheriff's Office providing those services with the City. If animal control services are to be provided by the Sheriff’s Office, those services shall be addressed in a separate agreement between the county and the City." No such MOU has been found, according to Fisher.
With no legal authority to hold the dogs, they were released to the owner on Friday. Fisher stated he is working with the County Health Officer, Elizabeth Morgan to see if they can voluntarily comply with conditions set forth for vicious dogs.
On Saturday the dogs reported as having attacked a cat and “running around the hospital parking lot.” They were caught by the owner who was issued a citation for dogs at large. In addition, for the sheep attacks, the owners have a criminal complaint filed, along with citations for dogs at large, dogs trespassing and harassing livestock and unlicensed dogs in town.
In talking to Dan Olsen, Support Services Manager of Truckee Animal Services, where the two dogs had 


been housed following the October 1st attack, it’s the responsibility of the owners to keep the dogs strictly contained. He stated a lot of times, the herd instinct kicks in and the dogs don’t attack to kill. They could be safe in a different environment. He called the dogs “good citizens” in Truckee’s animal services environment but were segregated in each kennel. “They were fine with us,” he stated but repeated it comes down to the responsibility level of the owners.
During the Sierra County Board of Supervisors’ meeting held in Loyalton on Tuesday, FFA Advisor, Cali Griffin and several FFA students described the horrific attack and lost revenue due to the loss of the five breeding ewes and how this will effect them for several years. They talked about the destroyed fences, which will have to be rebuilt and, since finding out the dogs were returned, have had to put the injured sheep in a trailer at night. Cali stated it’s been very traumatic for the students who are giving repeated vaccinations, attending to the injured, cleaning blood and maggots off the grounds and facilities, and hauling off the dead. Supervisor Lee Adams said he’s known of this type of incident happening every few years and encouraged them to secure the site. He also stated that state law allows dogs to be shot on site even if they are worrying livestock.
Cali and FFA member, Joseph Richards attended the City Council meeting Tuesday night, stating, “Every day is tragic,” and of “a lot of loss.” Joseph described the scene. Questions from the audience included  having the dogs be put down and there was concern over children walking to school. Sgt. Fisher called it a “serious issue” and that everywhere in Loyalton is at large. He explained the 2009 MOU prevents law enforcement from seizing and housing the dogs. 
Mayor Mark Marin stated he’d call City Counsel the next day to contact County Council and create an MOU.

Written by Dr. Ron Martinelli………
 
An excellent, but sad article on the demise of California 


I sit in the LAX terminal after concluding business in downtown Los Angeles for the past two days, I cannot help but reflect upon my journey from once a California native to a new resident of the Great State of Texas and why.  You see, in my personal and professional opinion, the once great State of California has in essence become a third world country


Third World Country – “The concept of the “third world” has evolved to describe countries that suffer from low economic development, high levels of poverty and little to no ability to utilize natural or economic resources.”  French demographer Alfred Sauvey, 1952


While the reasons for California’s ever-spiraling downwards status from 1st World economic prominence and prosperity to near 3rd World malaise are many;  I will assert that when you combine uber-liberal politicians, with rich elitist Hollywood Celebrities, dotcom CEO billionaires, disengaged millennials and illegal aliens; you in effect create the circumstances where your city or state becomes a 3rd World environment.


The process of California’s demise from the “Golden State” to 3rd World status has been slow but steady; supported and enabled by the aforementioned actors.  While much of the legislated changes for the worse have been designed and voted in by politicians in Sacramento; municipal politicians and a complicit uninformed, naive and entitled voting public must also share blame.  After all, when 51% of those on some type of government subsidy out-vote the 49% of the money earning and tax paying citizenry, any state is doomed to failure.  With California now a “Sanctuary State” and their libtard Democratic state legislature pushing for voting rights for illegal aliens, the state will never recover.  My thoughts exactly.  Calif. Is finished.


My observations during my short visit to Los Angeles underscored many of the problems Californians are facing as they follow like lemmings their Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, their Democratic legislators and urban mayors like Eric Garretti off the economic cliff.


Literally nothing substantive is good about L.A. An ever-growing homeless subculture populates the downtown area.  The intoxicated, drug influenced, mentally impaired and criminals are everywhere.  They literally surround Civic Center, federal buildings and courts – the so-called foundations and protectors of the Rule of Law and society.  How ironic to be surrounded by the failures these very systems, liberal politicians and judges have created.  Isn’t karma interesting to watch in real time?


The homeless, numbering in the thousands, sleep in the shadows of immense, gleaming edifices owned by multi-billion dollar international conglomerates and dotcom corporations. Business executives in Brioni suits and workers quickly pass by the unwashed masses, while holding their noses to screen out the stench of urine and feces.  The obvious health and safety hazards to the public are too many to count.


Interconnecting Los Angeles city roadways and state highways designed to transport the commuting, tax paying public to their job sites are a debacle.  The ribbons of roadways are a mess of potholed, weed infested, trash laden, graffiti vandalized passages filled with vehicles lined up bumper-to-bumper going nowhere fast.  These are your tax dollars at work.  While California voters grumble and groan, in the end they just seem to accept their fate as one of the prices to pay for living the California dream.


You see, the working public has no time to get out and protest the outrageous and constant increases in taxes on gas, municipal services, vehicle registrations, rapid transit and a bullet train going to nowhere.  Only the unemployed, government subsidized masses have time to demonstrate in the streets to ensure that their subsidies continue.  Since the liberal politicians in Sacramento know this dynamic and their power base all too well, the taxation without representation continues.


I was staying at a hotel near LAX and my mileage commute to downtown L.A. was a mere twelve miles.  However, it took me every bit of one hour and twenty minutes to arrive at my destination. I then paid $20 for the privilege of parking my car in a public lot.  Of course, this was after I paid $30 a day to park my rental car at my hotel.  Nice.  I’m seriously considering Uber next time.


Since I frequently travel throughout California on business, I will tell you that Los Angeles is a mirror image of all of the other large urban cities in the state.  I have observed similar and even worse depressed and dysfunctional urban environments in the San Francisco Bay Area, Orange County, San Diego and a number of other cities.


California is rapidly becoming a two-tiered society of the very rich and the very poor, similar to the 2nd and 3rd World countries I regularly visit.  The middle class, small business owners and the retired are either being pushed out of state and/or escaping in droves to such tax free, business friendly and less crime ridden states such as Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Florida. Lame duck Gov. Moonbeam and the state’s liberal Democratic legislature know this.  They just don’t care because their power base is now assured. Just ask any of their castrated, powerless Republican colleagues


There will never again be a Republican administration in California.  The days of Ronald Reagan have long passed.  The candidates lining up for the governor’s race in 2018 are Open Borders and Sanctuary State advocates Anthony Villaraigosa and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor Brown and his Democratic legislature are pulling out all the stops creating legislation that will allow illegal aliens in the state to vote in state and local elections.  Republicans, conservatives and moderates don’t stand a chance.


Here are just some of things Californian’s have done in recent years to turn their state into a 3rd World mess.  Passed Proposition 47 which has since freed tens of thousands of felons from state prisons and county jails back into communities. Prop. 47 also eviscerated the parole enforcement agency and created a system where police on the streets can’t even enforce outstanding felony and misdemeanor warrants anymore.  Police no longer arrest people for being under the influence of dangerous drugs.  What would be the point; it’s just a misdemeanor.  They have reduced the crime of auto theft to a citable misdemeanor. Steal a car; get caught and get a ticket.  Commit non-violent crimes, get arrested and you are out the same day with a promise to appear in court that will not ever be enforced.  No warrant enforcement, remember?  Amazing!


California’s new “Sanctuary State” status supports and enables its Open Borders mentality. Police in a number of cities such as San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles are ordered not to assist ICE with border enforcement. Remember the Kate Steinle murder case where her five-time convicted criminal and deported illegal alien was acquitted?  Well, that’s the political mentality that created that circumstance. This is also an excellent example that liberal politicians in California are willing to sacrifice the innocent to demonstrate that they support violent illegal alien criminals.


What happens in California’s larger cities filters down to its medium and small sized cities as well. I recently wrote about the city of Salinas, CA that experienced an incredible 150% increase in its homicide rate from 2014 – 2015. Salinas rated as one of the nation’s 30 most violent cities.  Fifty percent of all of their murders were gang and drug related, with the predominate gang members being illegal aliens.  I can only wonder how Silicon Valley dot-commers’ who are paying over half a million bucks for a home and commute over four hours a day to San Jose like living in that violent environment?


Which brings me back to why my successful business owner wife and I escaped to Texas.  The state loves us.  No commute problems, no state taxes and we live in an area where there is little to no crime.  Our area just outside of San Antonio some of the best school districts in the U.S.; high employment, great people and lots of fun things to do.


My wife and I live a great life on a ranch with a river in our backyard where we can fish, swim, kayak and BBQ with family and neighbors anytime we want.  The price?  Less than you would pay for a one bedroom studio condo in any of the cities in California I’ve mentioned.  New home buyers only need three percent down to purchase a home and veterans make no down payments.  If you are a younger middle-classer, a small business owner or retired, you’d be nuts to remain in California.


With California over a trillion dollars in debt and 30% of their budget going to subsidizing illegal aliens at the expense of hard-working, taxpayers who have little to no voice on how their state is run, the state and the majority of their citizens are doomed.  That’s what a two-tiered society eventually creates . One heck of a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!


The truth is blatantly obvious... and yet the left STILL turns a blind eye..   I say let this Titanic sink….


People need to wake up, and it’s too bad you won’t be forwarding this to your left-leaning, closed-minded, egalitarian friends for fear of their reprisals!

     
 
Caltrans Proposing Safety Improvements for Borland/Lincoln Intersection
 
AUBURN – Caltrans is hosting a community open house at City Hall in Auburn next week to seek public feedback on a proposed roundabout project for State Highway 49 at the intersection of Lincoln Way and Borland Avenue.
 
The event will be held Tuesday, October 16 from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. in the Rose Room of City Hall, 1225 Lincoln Way, Auburn. Community members can view project displays and review materials, including the draft environmental document, which is currently circulating. Caltrans staff members will be available to answer questions and receive written comments from the public.
 
The draft environmental document also is available online at:http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/envinternet/placer49roundabout/draftisnd.pdf
 
The $5.3 million project proposes to convert the intersection into a roundabout to increase motorist safety and reduce collisions. Caltrans proposes realigning the curve approach to the Borland Avenue/Lincoln Way intersection and increasing the radius (line of sight) for motorists approaching from the south. Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2021.
 
Caltrans District 3 is responsible for maintaining and operating 4,385 lane miles in 11 Sacramento Valley and Northern Sierra counties.

Drainage Improvements Scheduled Between Truckee and Squaw Valley
 
TRUCKEE – Caltrans is alerting motorists to anticipate delays on a section of State Route 89 for the next several weeks as culverts along the highway are removed and replaced.
 
Work started today on Highway 89 between Truckee and Squaw Valley to replace the drainage pipes. Granite Construciton is the contractor. The work will take place weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., weather permitting, under one-way reversing traffic control with flaggers. Motorists should anticipate delays of up to 15 minutes.
 
The work involves removing and replacing six culverts and making improvements to three others.
 
Weather or unexpected events may delay or prolong the work. Caltrans advises motorists to “Be Work Zone Alert.” The department will issue construction updates on Twitter @CaltransDist3 and on Facebook at CaltransDistrict3. For real-time traffic, click on Caltrans’ QuickMap quickmap.dot.ca.gov/  or download the QuickMap app on iTunes or Google Play.
 

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William Crayton (57) Orangvale.  Driving while suspended with a prior conviction.  Three years probation, 5 days jail, fine $2214.
 
William Mosley (40) Sacramento.  Driving while suspended.  Eighteen months probation, 2 days jail, fine $1434.
 
Brian Forslund (42) Quincy.  Reckless driving, alcohol related. Three years probation, two days jail, fine $1519.
 
Steven Sellers (28) Loyalton.  Reckless driving, alcohol related.  Three years probation, two days jail, fine $1519.
 
Jill Molaris (51) Downieville.  Possession of a concealed weapon in a vehicle. Six months probation, three days jail, fine $360.
 
Fred Freeking Jr. (69) Coyoteville. Driving while suspended.  Eighteen months probation, fine $1469.
 
Paul Smeltzer (68) North San Juan.  Reckless driving, drug related.  Thirty months probation, one day jail, fine $1519.
 
Darrell Davis (31) Loyalton.  Petty theft.  Eight months probation, fine $685, and pay restitution of $460.
 
Richard Price (29) Loyalton.  Sentencing after plea to communicating with a minor for sexual purposes.  Four years probation, 36 days jail, fine $735, register as sex offender, and attend and successfully complete drug court.
 
 
 
Glenn Knapp (55) Alleghany.  After a contested preliminary hearing, Knapp was ordered to stand trial on felony charges of battery on con-habitant.  In a separate matter, Knapp was found in violation of probation for misdemeanor charges for battery on co-habitant for not completing mandatory court-ordered counselling. He received six months in jail, and his probation was terminated unsuccessfully.   

 
Tahoe National Forest Truckee and Sierraville firefighters are utilizing their specialized skills to run chainsaws and use hand tools to remove vegetation down to mineral soil to construct containment line.  However, they are not engaged in wildfire suppression. Though resources remain available to respond to incidents, firefighters are contributing to important forest health and fuels management. Forest Service fire crews are constructing containment line around prescribed fire unit boundaries. Removing hazard trees, raking all material off the lines and performing checks of the burn unit conditions, weather and air quality are also all part of the extensive preparation and planning that is done before the implementation of fall/winter prescribed fire operations. The Tahoe National Forest with its fire crews will be implementing prescribed fire operations only as specific conditions outlined in a comprehensive burn plan permit in order to safely achieve the prescribed fire objectives and minimize smoke impacts.
 
Meredith Anello

On the Tahoe National Forest Sierraville Ranger District, 150 acres of prescribed burning was safely and successfully accomplished near Little Truckee Summit. Before, during, and after prescribed fire operations, fire personnel such as the Burn Boss, Firing Boss, Fire and Fuels Managers monitor the prescribed burn area conditions and the fire effects. Post-fire activities are determined in advance of the prescribed fire operation and outlined in the burn plan specific to the area. Fire personnel will continue to closely patrol the prescribed fire area based on weather, fuels, and smoke considerations.  Safety is the number one concern for Fire and Fuels managers and all prescribed fires are conducted under close monitoring and observation of effects to the burn area, natural resources, personnel and public. This summer’s wildfires are a reminder of the importance of fuels reduction and that smoke produced during a prescribed fire is much less intense and of shorter duration than that of a wildfire.  “Fire is a natural part of the Sierra ecosystem. The Tahoe National Forest prescribed fire program introduces fire into the landscape and re-creates ecological benefits that are essential to our efforts in restoring a more natural and resilient ecosystem and to minimize the severity of wildfires,” said Ruby Burks, Sierraville District Fuels Specialist.
 
Meredith Anello