It's official

California is now the most retarded state in the nation. How did I come to this conclusion?

1. The people of Massachusetts, known for sending tax-and spend liberal douchebags to Washington, elected Scott Brown, who explicitly pledged to vote against government-run health insurance and...

2. AFTER that happened, the Dems in our State Senate decided that NOW would be a good time to resurrect a plan for a single-payer health insurance plan that would cost TWICE the state's current budget in its first year alone. Really?

Yes, really...

The Senate Appropriations Committee released the bill for a vote by the full Senate next week. The legislation had been held over from last year because of the state's ongoing budget crisis.

Creating a single-payer system would cost California an estimated $210 billion in its first year. That's roughly double the size of the total state budget, but about what the state and federal government and residents cumulatively spend now on California health care, said Sen. Mark Leno.

Leno, D-San Francisco, introduced the bill after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger twice vetoed similar legislation. The Republican governor negotiated his own $14.7 billion health care reform bill with Democratic leaders two years ago, only to see the measure fail in a Senate committee amid concerns over paying for the measure.

Leno's bill would create a commission to decide how to pay for the system, at a cost this year of more than $1 million.

We've got a $20 billion deficit, some of the highest tax rates, and one of the biggest unemployment clusterfucks in the country, and how do these assholes plan to pay for all of this?

Leno said the system could be funded with a payroll tax along with existing state and federal money and increased efficiencies from a state-managed system that eliminates the insurance middleman. Voters would have to approve the commission's funding plan, he said.

Hey, new taxes! Great fucking idea, genius. Oh, and what "existing" state money? We're fucking broke, in case you hadn't noticed.

I really used to love this place. Now, if I had enough money, I'd leave in a fucking heartbeat.

Update: I forgot to add a hat tip to Darleen over at protein wisdom.

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