The biggest scammer in California is about to get 15 years.
That’s not a prison sentence, although it should be. It’s the pending extension of the costly and idiotic “cap and trade” program, a hidden tax on energy that has been raising the cost of electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel and anything made or moved in California for more than 10 years.
The program is run by the unelected California Air Resources Board (CARB) to meet the state’s arbitrary targets for greenhouse gas reduction. It is set to expire in 2030, and if it does, the cost of living in California will come down immediately.
But Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature will not let it expire. Instead, they want to renew it through 2045. They’d just prefer that you didn’t hear about it.
So the bill language for the renewal of