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New California Law Will Base Electricity Bills on Income Level

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

A new law in California will force those who make more money to pay more for their electricity.

Under the new rules, higher-income earners will pay seven times more than low-income earners.

CNET reported:

If you live in California, how much you pay for electricity will soon be tied to much you earn. A state law passed last summer requires the California Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, to approve a pricing structure that incorporates a flat fee with a sliding scale based on income.

Currently, Californians pay for the energy they use and the cost of upgrading the grid, settling lawsuits related to wildfires and providing assistance to low-income customers is built into the per-kilowatt-hour price.

Under the new system, however, funds for these programs would come from “income-graduated fixed charges.”

It’s an unprecedented move: In an April blog post, energy economist Ahmad Faruqui said more than 170 investor-owned utilities nationwide incorporate a fixed rate — the median being $10 and the highest $40.

None has an income-based component.

Earlier this year, The Gateway Pundit reported that California electric companies proposed fixed-rate bills based on income.

Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric proposed a plan to charge customers based on income, not usage.

This was based on a new assembly bill that requires ‘simpler’ electricity bills.

Customers will see the new changes starting in 2025.

READ 24 COMMENTS
  • Rose says:

    So glad I moved out of this Hell Hole State. Newsom has ruined California! He is the main reason I left. We couldn’t recall him, thx to Pelosi, Soros and fraudulent voting!

  • John says:

    Great I guess other cultures could start moving to Commieforney and start declaring our new gender as neutral, and identify as a black or Brown illegal creeping crud, or lazy, fake entitlement, fake victim, White oppressed, culturally oppressed, and government oppressed, so we can get our utility bills paid by a communist corrupt lazy non-working, non income earning government who only steals and punishes the working class people & cultures in this new age luciferian communist corrupted fraudulent elected fake oppressed, mentally,spiritually, physically and satanically Ill government

  • EZ says:

    Go for it idiots, can’t wait to see the power companies pull out of Cali. too

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