I’m very supportive of more progressive federal taxation. With CA state, it’s a more complicated question because you’d be doubling down on the same structure that left us with $40-100B deficits in the last recession.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @kenyaw and
If the public has 2 pay for it 1 way or another, there's no difference if we bail out pg&e, form discrete MUDs, form a statewide utility, or whatev. We still debt finance against future revenues. If we're paying, we should pay in the most progressive way, & should own the system
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Replying to @upwithppl @kenyaw and
The most progressive ways to fund California’s systems and services also happen to be the most unpredictable and most volatile.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @kenyaw and
sounds like some means need seizin'!
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If you’re talking about PG&E, that’s on the table. If you’re talking about everything else, my mom’s family went through that and some of her childhood friends’ parents died in camps.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
Is there a guide or essay somewhere that explains how this won’t end up in authoritarianism this time?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
with the market socialism of Matt Bruenig & co the answer to that question is basically: Norway (just instead of "seize" you should go with "tax and gradually take over"). ofc Real Socialists don't agree with him haha.
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Replying to @eean @kimmaicutler
dropping death camps on the table is something, I would've gone with: the challenges of California wildfires are basically the same regardless of who owns what :D
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Replying to @eean
sorry, no I didn't know if she was saying nationalize PG&E or socialist revolution and seize everything.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
nah she meant socialist revolution for sure lol. but you seize everything and you still got a state prone to fires. the socialist revolution is their rapture or singularity though, it solves all problems.
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@jamesonmcb made the argument that nationalized or centralized energy systems have generally been able to de-carbonize faster than those that aren't. https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/the-green-new-deal-and-the-legacy-of-public-power … cc @uhshanti
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which book is that?
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