CA - CHP Promises Crackdown on Speeders

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CHP promises crackdown on speeders | grant, farrow, down - News - The Orange County Register

At any given time on Orange County's freeways, there always seems to be that one driver weaving his way down the road at 90 mph.

California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joe Farrow hopes to see a lot less of that. From now until September, Farrow has promised to flood California's highways with officers specifically targeting speeders.

A newly secured grant will allow the commissioner 42,000 hours of officer overtime to do that.

CHP officials say they want drivers to slow down for their own safety – and others.

"Drivers simply need to slow down," Farrow said in a release. "Year after year, speed is indicated as the primary collision factor in roughly one-third of the fatal and injury collisions in California."

A portion of the grant will target the accident prone Highway 12 corridor between the Bay Area and Stockton; the remainder will be distributed evenly throughout the rest of the state.

The grant comes from the state's Office of Traffic Safety, through funding provided by the National Traffic Safety Administration.

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They have a billion dollar deficit to compensate for, speeding tickets will go through the roof.

Don't feel bad though it's going to happen everywhere.

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They have a billion dollar deficit to compensate for, speeding tickets will go through the roof.

Don't feel bad though it's going to happen everywhere.

As goes California so goes the nation.
Ezra Klein - As Goes California, So Goes the Nation?

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They have a billion dollar deficit to compensate for, speeding tickets will go through the roof.

Don't feel bad though it's going to happen everywhere.

As goes California so goes the nation.
Ezra Klein - As Goes California, So Goes the Nation?

Maybe when we have to sell California and New York to the Chinese, to may down the debt, things will get better here for the other 48.

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Maybe when we have to sell California and New York to the Chinese, to may down the debt, things will get better here for the other 48.

So you actually think the US will pay down the debt to Chinese? Aww, how cute!

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I drove quite a few miles the last couple of days and CHP has been out in force. Lots and lots of radar.

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Maybe when we have to sell California and New York to the Chinese, to may down the debt, things will get better here for the other 48.

So you actually think the US will pay down the debt to Chinese? Aww, how cute!

SNL Rips Obama Over China Trip, Spending, And The Debt

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No I don't think so, I think were going to have to sell off something (New York and California) so the don't foreclose!!

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I am heading from La to Tucson tomorrow. Should be a radarfest.

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The seeds of California’s current crisis were planted more than 30 years ago, when voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, a ballot measure that placed the state’s budget in a straitjacket. Property tax rates were capped, and homeowners were shielded from increases in their tax assessments even as the value of their homes rose.

Oh, great - another tax-and-spend liberal who blames California's budget crisis on Prop 13. Yet he brings it up immediately after talking about the housing bubble and how it hit CA the hardest.

I love Prop 13. Prop 13 meant that, despite the irrational run-up of housing prices, my property taxes didn't shoot through the roof and bankrupt me. When housing prices rise at several times the rate of inflation, why should the counties and the state get that windfall? And how come the other 49 states which do not have Prop 13 are also having financial meltdowns right now? If Prop 13 were truly the cause of CA's fiscal crisis, then the other 49 states which don't have Prop 13 would be in sound financial shape right now.

Let's suppose Prop 13 never existed, and property taxes had directly tracked home prices. When the bubble burst, and property tax revenues fell, these idiots would be in the exact same budget position they are today: too many entitlement programs and pork-barrel projects and not enough income to pay for them all. California needs to learn to live within its means, just like you, I, and everyone else. And stop whining about Prop 13; if it weren't for Prop 13, most of the people who complain about it couldn't afford to live here.

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The seeds of California’s current crisis were planted more than 30 years ago, when voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, a ballot measure that placed the state’s budget in a straitjacket. Property tax rates were capped, and homeowners were shielded from increases in their tax assessments even as the value of their homes rose.

Oh, great - another tax-and-spend liberal who blames California's budget crisis on Prop 13. Yet he brings it up immediately after talking about the housing bubble and how it hit CA the hardest.

I love Prop 13. Prop 13 meant that, despite the irrational run-up of housing prices, my property taxes didn't shoot through the roof and bankrupt me. When housing prices rise at several times the rate of inflation, why should the counties and the state get that windfall? And how come the other 49 states which do not have Prop 13 are also having financial meltdowns right now? If Prop 13 were truly the cause of CA's fiscal crisis, then the other 49 states which don't have Prop 13 would be in sound financial shape right now.

Let's suppose Prop 13 never existed, and property taxes had directly tracked home prices. When the bubble burst, and property tax revenues fell, these idiots would be in the exact same budget position they are today: too many entitlement programs and pork-barrel projects and not enough income to pay for them all. California needs to learn to live within its means, just like you, I, and everyone else. And stop whining about Prop 13; if it weren't for Prop 13, most of the people who complain about it couldn't afford to live here.

It has not bankrupted my parent's town in Delaware either. You pay property tax on the value of the house when you record the deed. It stays the same until you sell it to the next guy.

Their property tax is about $50 per year and the beach house is even less, it's been in the family since 1920!!!