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This comment was just so salient I had to repost it. The post was a serious discussion about what California is doing, that they shouldn’t be doing, to help bring in revenue. As the saying states, “Where California goes the nation is sure to follow.” If you don’t live in California this still affects you. Using a little tongue-in-cheek humor to make a broader point is something Mish is great at. An enjoyable read with just the right mix of humor and reality.
“Steve” just chimed in with a comment I want to share …
The obvious next step is to simply mount government owned speed and movement sensors right in the car. A dashboard mounted printer can spit out infraction notices as required.
Once a Police State is out of control there is no limit to how far out of control it will go. We the people, formerly called Citizens but now known only as Consumers, have been swindled into surrendering our Sovereign power to a cabal of corporate thugs. They will do anything required to hold onto power.
Let me ask you this. Twenty years ago would you have believed that the US government would ever take ownership of GM, or that they would give 100 billion dollars to an insurance company, or that they would purchase 90% of all new mortgages or that they would run a 2 Trillion Dollar deficit while funneling hundreds of billions to Wall Street?
All of this would have seemed inconceivable to me. Except for the vestiges of civil rights we still possess we are literally turning into the old USSR where our entire economy is run by central government command.
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