Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 1 seeks a $6.4 billion tax on millionaires to fund 10,000 mental health beds.
Newsom Campaigns for Mental Health Proposition
Cal Matters reports Newsom Kicks Off Campaign for Mental Health Prop
California voters will decide only one measure in the March 5 primary — and that’s exactly what Gov. Gavin Newsom wanted. He championed bills to borrow $6.4 billion to pay for 10,000 new mental health treatment beds and to overhaul California’s 20-year-old law that funds mental health services with a tax on millionaires. They will be combined into one proposition — Prop. 1.
The Legislature cooperated by clearing the March ballot of potentially competing bond measures for schools, colleges and housing — and of three constitutional amendments, which were put off until the Nov. 5 general election.
And Thursday, Newsom officially launched his campaign for the ballot measure, with the slogan “Treatment not Tents” — a nod to both public concern about homelessness and his efforts to clear encampments. Politico reports that he’s putting $6 million into the campaign to start.
Treatment Not Tents
- $6.4 billion for 10,000 beds is $640,000 per bed.
- California has 161,548 homeless, most of which have mental health issues.
- The total bill tor Treatments Not Tents would be 161,548 * $640,000 = $103,390,720,000 ($103.4 billion).
The governor says 10,000 beds will serve 100,000 homeless. No, it won’t unless you put 10 people in one bed and keep them there.
Otherwise, it will be an endless cycle of people in and out of bed making the total off the street no more than 10,000 at a cost of $640,000 each.
There are about 6,000 existing beds now, and that has not made any dent in 161,000 homeless.
Leave California Now
To make way for the idiotic Proposition 1, the legislature postponed three other idiocies on schools, housing, and colleges. It’s a temporary reprieve. California will be after still more of your money in November of 2024.
And when adding 10,000 beds does nothing, California will seek another $6.4 billion for more beds.
The Great Migration From California to Texas
On June 18, I noted Millennials Lead the Way on the Great Migration From California to Texas
Millennials depart California over home prices, not the millionaire’s tax. California has the top 14 least affordable cities in the country to look for a starter home.
There are many reasons to flee the state.
For discussion, please see The Starter Home Is No More, Even in Second Tier Markets
More democrat theft of public money by the master scammers.. They’ve no interest in helping anyone, the homeless are like cattle for the democrat politicians, a huge milkrun.
They will loose me and my family. My parents too because they want to be near me and my kids.
Just because I own a basic home and have paid most of it off over the past 20+ years makes me a millionaire. If it’s based on income, i better sell my profitable company before this.
At least I’ll be able to defend myself if I move out of the state.
“$6.4 billion for 10,000 beds is $640,000 per bed.”
Beds are so much cheaper at a furniture store. The government mark up is extremely high.
It might be worthwhile spending the money if it actually got reasonable results. Unfortunately the track record for treating mental illness is not good, especially for the indigent. My guess is that in the long term it will take maybe 500 people off the streets out of 10,000 treated, a 5% success rate. I would rather take the $6.4 billion and buy or build designated campgrounds for the homeless. And a we need a change in interpretation of Boise vs. Martin in the Ninth Circuit.
“If we get ‘em all locked up in the same place, it’ll be easier to harvest their votes.”
That sounds like a whole lot of $$$. In fact, I would guess you could build quite the permanent facility, and be able to afford the yearly maintenance cost on the facility too…
The US version of Trudeau. I’m glad I wont be around a lot longer i’ve seen enough.
Grift-o-mania running’ wild!
when i lived in oakland they spent about 500k per back yard shed to house 2 people, in lots with 20 or 30 of these things. public private scam. it did look clean and nice, with security guards and gates around lots…….. compared to the wretched living rough on streets in amerika. a real indictment on our whole civilization. but 500k for a shed.
The amount of graft in many of these homeless so called charities is breathtaking.
35% of San Francisco’s office space is unused so California could easily rent them and fill them with the homeless. Sure they are cubicles or open floor but they could house them all and get them off the streets. With all the companies leaving the city there will be more space available and then San Francisco can return to the rundown city full of weird people it was before the tech boom made it rich.
You have some basic facts wrong.
The tax surcharge of 1% on income over $1 million has been in place for 20 years. It was enacted in 2004 as Proposition 63.
The new $6.4 billion bond is new bonded indebtedness. It is in most ways unrelated to the millionaires’ tax. The proposition aims to change how the existing funding from the millionaires’ tax is allocated and controlled. It is a beast of an initiative with many moving parts.
In the past 20 years, many people have become millionaires and very few have left the state due to the “millionaire’s tax.”
There is a world of difference between being/becoming a millionaire and having a million dollar income.
Countless Californians are millionaires due to the value of their house or their 401 or pension plan etc. But probably only a thousand or so have an income of 1 million or more a year. Why do you think CEOs have salaries of 600K and stock options worth millions a year – so they don’t pay the tax until they sell at which time they’ve relocated to another state like Texas or Florida.
This type of nutty policy is the reason I left California. And don’t forget reparations!
He isn’t learning from his peers. Cheaper to buy them all bus tickets to Texas and Florida.
Now, how about those markets! Another good week! Still selling into strength and building the cash pile.
By the time it’s finished this project will be 3-4x over budget and serve 1,000 homeless, not 10,000.
Has to come from somewhere, they can’t run their cities, they don’t have money. The systems don’t work anymore. The es futures were up almost 250 handles this week leaving 5 gaps
gaps never fill………
Califucornia will have millionaires leaving in droves if this referendum passes.
“Califucornia will have millionaires leaving in droves if this referendum passes.”
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
When the problem is lack of available housing: “Droves” of people, likely all of whom have at least above average houses to leave behind, leaving; don’t sound so bad.
Compared to simply building more houses, yes; it’s a pretty retarded (oldspeak for par-for-the Dumbage-course) way of solving a housing shortage problem. But: If Californian’s aptitude and competence no longer extends to tasks as complimecated as erecting walls and roofs anymore: Their housing shortage CAN also be solved by reducing the population until those remaining all have a house. Beggars can’t be choosers, you know. And incompetents can’t be too picky.
Having all the millionaires leave is a good thing.😁
God help us if this fool becomes president. A total lack of intelligence and common sense with Newsom.
“A total lack of intelligence and common sense with Newsom.”
At least he’ll fit in in Washington, then.
Probably cheaper to bed all the sane folks and let the loonies run. After all, it is California.
Newsom ought to make it 10,001 beds – including a permanent one for himself.
One bed doesnt serve just one person since some patients are not permanent.
Yeah right, the existing 6,000 beds saved 600,000 that’s why we need another 10,000 more
Not always the case, it depends the program. There are short term facilities and long term facilities. So 1 bed might serve 4+ individuals a year or just 1…
As an FYI in NYS beds go for about $450K depending the oversight agency
California beds come with more amenities as standard features.