Subj : Re: California budget deficit issue
To   : Utopian Galt
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Nov 22 2025 12:29:13

-=> Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

 UG> pay for. If Democrats want to give health care to the undocumented
 UG> aliens then they need to take the political courage to raise those
 UG> taxes if they feel so deeply for that demographic group.

 They are going to start charging for access to medical in 2027 and
 announced a pause in people who are not pregnant in 2026.

 One school of thought is that having preventative/early stage medical
 care for people residing in the state, regardless of status is a good
 thing - it would cost more to process them through an emergency room
 when their condition worsens through lack of care than to take care of
 it early.

 I was going to compare the cost of an advil to the cost of being on a
 ventilator in an ICU, but I recall how much an advil cost in my last
 hospital bill.

 The reality is, while some people may come over the border for the
 benefits, we have a lot of undocumented workers who, well, work. They
 work in kitchens, they work in fields, they work in a ton of places.
 They pay sales taxes, gas taxes and more. The California economy
 depends on them.

 There's costs that could be cut in the California budget, but I'd
 rather find budget cuts that don't cause people to suffer.


 
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