DJ Suss D for President

This is a response to a Financial Times editorial called Why California’s Plan to Tax Billionaires
is Misguided. Financial Times 3926.
I’ve heard this line for years that California has too many regulations and taxes. If you don’t
want regulations, don’t exploit people in the environment. They set the standard for the,
a, future. No one uses more of California’s infrastructure commons than tech,
oil, and agriculture. New York and California are some of the most desirable places to live and do
business because of the infrastructure and environment. In Eugene,
Oregon, Hyundai got huge tax breaks to build a chip washing plant with the promise of high-paying
jobs. They could have used a more expensive sand process in another location instead of water from
the Willamette River. They didn’t bring the promised jobs and left when the local government
complained. I’m writing this in New Jersey airport after a week in New York City. I’m retired from
driving truck. What you notice as a truck driver is how trash the East Coast is compared to the
later populated West. We don’t want the West Coast to become a toxic waste dump like in the East.
Before truck driving, I designed fire alarm systems. In 2008, a major car manufacturer didn’t want
to pay $50,000 for a fire alarm system at their fuel depot at the Port of Los Angeles,
where they offload and store thousands of cars worth millions of dollars before they distribute
them to dealerships. The building codes are written by large manufacturers.
and insurance companies, as well as public officials, mostly to sell more products and push out
small businesses that can’t afford them. Small businesses have to constantly pay to retrain to keep
up with unnecessarily upgraded products. I was at a Contractors Association meeting during the 2008
financial crisis. A pool installer told me he couldn’t compete with companies that used low-wage
immigrant labor instead of the union help he used. High prices are caused by multinational
corporate monopolies, not regulations designed to even the playing field. George Seldes documented
this in his book Friendly Fascism. Business associations are unions for multinational corporations
that squelch competition, ultimately causing lower quality and higher prices for consumers.
By all means, ship your slave labor products to another port. Take your exploitative practices
elsewhere. we’ll take our chances like they did in the prescient fictional environmental book,
Ecotopia, by Ernest Kallenbach. For KEPW News, I’m DJ Susti.