Epoch Times - How California Tricks Businesses For Profit
Aired: 2023-05-10
Duration: 00:52

[00:00:00]  One of the things that California does up and down the state statewide and locally is they essentially make some part of your business a crime or a violation of an administrative rule and then they make you do mitigation.
[00:00:10]  For instance, you can't run your refinery without emitting greenhouse gases and they're going to define that as a violation and they're going to require you to buy a permit to do it.
[00:00:19]  If you're going to build housing in an outlying area, that's sprawl.
[00:00:22]  And sprawl is bad for the climate.
[00:00:24]  You have to mitigate the damage that you're doing to the climate by causing people to live in your area and drive to work.
[00:00:30]  And if you don't buy a permit, you're in violation, and then they can make more penalties, more mitigation fees.
[00:00:35]  To have a house and a job is not damage.
[00:00:38]  And by defining it as damage, they're causing the inversion of all of our values.
[00:00:43]  They do this to developers.
[00:00:44]  They do this to businesses.
[00:00:46]  They do this to everybody.
[00:00:47]  It's illegal to do such and such, but if you pay us, that's okay then.