Opinion: Legislators prefer grandstanding
Perhaps the biggest debate this session has centered on fentanyl — the synthetic painkiller that is many times more potent than heroin and has led to more than 5,700 overdose deaths in California last year. Lawmakers have proposed a package of measures that mostly are about grandstanding — and epitomize the “throw everything at the wall” legislating common during other Drug War panics.
The fentanyl problem is real. Yet the state already has a “master plan” that ramps up funding. Police agencies and DAs already have plenty of powers to arrest and prosecute dealers. The proposals would create a task force, call for new warnings to drug dealers and enhance prison sentences. Fortunately, the Assembly Public Safety Committee has resisted these efforts.
Meanwhile, California lawmakers continue to move forward noxious bills to expand rent control and to bring back eminent-domain-abusing redevelopment agencies. Those proposals present a direct threat to Californians’ property rights. What would a legislative session be without a major tax-increase proposal? Senate Democrats have introduced a plan to close the budget deficit by raising taxes on large corporations “to pay for tax cuts for small businesses, renters, low-income Californians and union members” and boosting social spending, as the Sacramento Bee reported.
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