California considers universal health care and doubling its taxes.

An L.A. Times columnist makes the case for mocking unvaxed Americans who die of COVID,

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each and every day that I look at the news from California, I am just delighted by both the

news and the fact that I no longer live there, because they've just decided in California to go

pedal to the metal. We are going to destroy the state as fast as humanly possible. According to KTLA.com, California lawmakers on Tuesday will start debating whether to create the nation's first universal health care system. A key measure of whether the proposal has the support to pass this year. Progressives have tried for years to create a government-funded

universal health care system to replace the one that relies on private insurance. Voters overwhelmingly

rejected a 1994 ballot initiative that would have created a universal health care system. Another

attempt passed the state Senate in 2017, but it died in the state assembly because there was no

funding plan attached to it. This year, Democrats in the State Assembly in California, where

Democrats have a supermajority, have filed two bills, one that would create the universal

health care system and set its rules. The other would lay out how to pay for everything by

raising taxes, unquote, some wealthier individuals and larger businesses. As we will see,

they mean we are going to raise taxes massively on pretty much everyone and destroy all business in the states

we can pay for the health care for illegal immigrants, which is really what they are talking about

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