This tax, and measures like it, target the poor. By making it more expensive to own a gun, those who need it the most are adversely impacted. This is by design. The California Democratic party loves criminals, but they hate the poor. By making it more expensive to legally obtain the tools of defense, they are creating victims. This supports their narratives, so not only do they not care, but are delighted to see violence perpetrated on poor people. Especially poor people in communities of color.
Excellent report! I grew up there in the sixties when everyone and everything from farms to desert to Joshua Tree to hwy 10 as a two laner was totally beautiful. There is volcanoes in the area and one topic not focused on is that volcanic structure underneath the Salton sea to El Centro. The San Andreas fault line is home to many volcanoes that have been rearranged because the fault line moves north and south. When I was kid, we went to the hot springs along the Andreas and sat in booths or went swimming at Desert Hot Springs that had like 3 giant hot spring pools.
You may win the award for the dumbest use of ground water in CA history! That is not a "Sea", that was an accident that allowed water to flow into a desert area back when we still had water in the Colorado river, which we don't anymore. It dried up when the water was diverted for agriculture, the river no longer makes it into the ocean in Mexico, because we use it all in California. But its NBC, so I would expect it to be a lame story, thats what they do.
If people here on the coast would double and even triple use our water water just maybe the two lakes that should have water that is Tulare and the Salton Sea
Dad took us fishing and camping in the mid 70's. Great memories, but now its just terrible and nearly a ghost town. Makes no sense you restore the channels since the big problem is the Salton Sea. Still gonna have the stench of the SS hitting the channels. Just tap into the Colorado to continue drawing fresh water. Good luck SS.
The problem is that the county and state want the Salton Sea to go away. The last thing they want to do is restore it. Meanwhile, the IID and county love to demolish history.
Heck yeah, use the tax payers money to fix up one little spot for one small group of people so they can live it up again. Don't worry about all the other run down places in the country & all the struggling people living in them. Sounds about right.
Why is everyone pretending that the Salton Sea was anything more than a temporary wash basin filled with polluted waters? So, because some realtors pitched a failing real estate Idea in the 60s we should continue the sunk cost fallacy that this area would ever be an economically viable tourist paradise? Save the lithium!
It amazes me how the MSM treats man-made disasters being returned to a natural state, by natural causes, as the complete opposite. The Salton Sea was created by man and is trying to dry up - so drought. Tulare Lake was drained by man and keeps trying to refill - so floods. SMH.
In the 50s & 60s it was a great place to visit, fish, ski, & camp. But the planet changes over to time. California has always miss used water. Pumping freshwater into the Salton Sea as it sits on an active volcano & the San Andreas fault is not logical.
