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Xavier Becerra, still on the crazy train
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Xavier Becerra keeps doubling down on failed ideas. First he refuses to say he’d lower the gas tax that makes fuel more expensive in California than in any other state. Now he says he’ll finish the High-Speed Rail project.
Get this: Becerra actually says he’s going to finish the train “on budget and on time.” That would be an incredible feat, considering the train was supposed to be finished in 2020.
So, forget about “on time.”
The train is now projected to cost at least $231 billion, seven times the original cost of $33 billion. Nearly $20 billion has been spent already.
So, the only way to stay “on budget” would be to cancel the project altogether.
Once upon a time, Gov. Gavin Newsom understood that, too.
In his first address to the state Legislature after taking office in 2019, Newsom said that the High-Speed Rail championed by his predecessor Jerry Brown “would cost too much and, respectfully, take too long.”
There simply wasn’t — and isn’t — enough public demand........