CalWatch: “California lawmakers approved a health plan tax package Monday designed to continue pulling in more than a billion dollars in matching federal money, while committing several hundred million dollars to services for the developmentally disabled, debt relief and other programs,” the Sacramento Bee reported. “The final deal includes tax offsets designed to minimize any hit to health plans that could be passed on to consumers. In addition, to achieve enough Republican support, the package includes several components Republican lawmakers wanted, such as providing more money to help people with autism and other developmental disabilities and forgiving a budget debt owed by skilled-nursing facilities.”By shifting the balance of taxes, lawmakers ensured that California’s own budget was not hit with a billion-dollar deficit. No money was allocated to make up that difference if a deal was not reached and federal funds dried up. For that reason, Gov. Jerry Brown all but hounded elected officials to hammer out a bargain. Brown “called a special session on health care last year, tasking lawmakers with finding a long-term solution for funding Medi-Cal so the program doesn’t rely so heavily on the general fund, which pays for most state services,” recalled the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of the key priorities was to expand the state’s tax on managed-care organizations — a tax that the Obama administration said did not comply with federal law.”
Anybody see the trick?
No taxes are raised in California, Madical expanded; but we get to keep another billion dollars a year from the Swamp. But who is the Swamp going to tax for that do-re-mi? Texans are going to subsidize California liberals? No way Jerry you idiot, what the Texans are going to do is elect Trump. After a 40 year political career, Jerry Brown still does not get the connection! The eight largest economy in the world has to budget around a bunch of Swampers some 3,000 miles away, where Texas has veto power.
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