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Title: California kills 73% of bullet train, keeps 100% of taxes
Post by: rangerrebew on February 13, 2019, 12:43:46 pm

February 13, 2019
California kills 73% of bullet train, keeps 100% of taxes
By Chriss Street

Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California’s Legislature the bullet-train was so over budget he would kill 73 percent of the track and still spend 100 percent of the taxes.

Facing another cost spike, Gov. Gavin Newsom stunned a joint-session of the Democrat-controlled Legislature by proposing to slash the 520-mile voter-approved and taxpayer-funded system that would have stretched from Anaheim through the Central Valley to San Francisco, while keeping 119-mile stretch from Bakersfield to Merced.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/california_kills_73_of_bullettrain_keeps_100_of_taxes.html#ixzz5fPlXQyr6 (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/california_kills_73_of_bullettrain_keeps_100_of_taxes.html#ixzz5fPlXQyr6)
 

Title: Re: California kills 73% of bullet train, keeps 100% of taxes
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on February 20, 2019, 04:33:45 am

Well, he lost this one

Trump Takes Back $1 Billion from California; Gavin Newsom Complains: ‘Political Retribution’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/19/gavin-newsom-trump-takes-back-nearly-1-billion-from-california-after-high-speed-rail-canceled/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/19/gavin-newsom-trump-takes-back-nearly-1-billion-from-california-after-high-speed-rail-canceled/)