by Jack
( Picture on left is a clue what what you need to bring to see the Academy of Sciences)
Lets say you have a family of three, Mom, Dad and Junior and you want to take a little day trip to San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. This is a heavily subsidized state park, so you might expect that after all the fees and taxes you pay every year that the good ol’ state of California might give you a deal on the ticket price when you go to see our people’s museum, right? Well, if that’s what you thought, then you would be disappointed. Admission is $35 per adult! $25 for a child! If you go to the planetarium that’s extra. And if you stop in at the museum’s cafeteria for lunch, you will be lucky to get out the door for less than $50. Now add up bridge tolls, mileage cost and it all totals up to somewhere around $220 bucks for your day trip.
If you are in the middle income and under range it’s safe to say that there are very few families that can afford this educational visit. And what about those of us in retirement and living on social security? Well Bunky, chances are you’re not going, because you can’t afford it. Given their pricey food menu and pricier tickets, you might think this “public” park was made strictly for the pleasure of the rich folks. Isn’t it ironic that our elite liberals in Sacramento and San Francisco would do that to the blue collar folks and the impoverished elderly that usually vote democrat?
Does the phrase “Prop 13” ring a bell, you damnable doofus !?
It’s been $100 for a family of four for 30 years !!! And now it’s $120?
Surprise, surprise.
Just … go away.
He said $220. Can’t you read?
So Captain Jack is supposed to go away from his own blog?
That’s rich. You barge into this place and tell the proprietor to go away after calling him damnable and a doofus.
Joe, such rooted literalism makes communication impossible.
Just … go away.
Too funny! Libby blames Proposition 13 for how progressive nitwits in San Francisco run (er, ruin) that city and then tells Jack to leave his own blog! To paraphrase Gertrude Stein —
A troll is a troll is a troll
or
An ass is an ass is an ass
or
A clown is a clown is a clown
But Libby is all three …
A troll is an ass is a clown
Speaking of Proposition 13, how is it that this bill has never been repealed by the progressive scum who own and run this state lock, stock and barrel? Eh Libby? Perhaps the troll who is an ass who is a clown who is a paradigm of progressive scum can shed some light.
Jack it’s a sad state of affairs. Same goes for sports, Disneyland or even the the movies.
When prop 13 became law with nearly 2/3rds of the vote we were relieved. If it hadn’t passed our property tax bill was set to overcome our house payment. We were going to have to sell our house. A lot of people all over California already had:
Can you imagine what property taxes would be like today, on top of our state tax and sales tax were it not for prop 13? If you’re not sure think about the state pension fund that’s a bust. And before you scoff at what I’m saying consider this Forbes article from January last year:
Governments don’t spend our money well and they certainly don’t spend it to benefit the average private sector worker or business owner. California is one of the worst. The situation with Oroville Dam is a great example, especially when you consider “Jerry’s Folly,” that costly widdle twain to nowheya soon:
Delusional citizens like Libby support this type of elitist government spending. She’s delusional enough to think that higher property taxes would pay for computers, band and art classes at our K-12 schools and keep tuition low at our state colleges…what a dope!
A lot of things have contributed to the situation we’re in. What frustrates me is how many people, like Libby, never consider the scale to which our governments contribute. They take our money and waste it, they write regulations that drive prices up and cost us jobs, and they pay themselves at elitist rates that rival upper management in the corporate world.
And the people keep electing the same lousy money managers over and over again.
Social security is an entitlement and you want to end it right?
You support working people being poor. The costs to produce things ha gone up, our incomes have gone down comparatively.
So do the conservative thang,………………………………………………….. go get more jobs and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Stop complaining because this is hypocrisy.
Too rich for my blood but even if it were not I would not go.
I am boycotting that commie haven so I never plan to step foot in Crisco.
I guess the internet is a commie haven activity too. You might start by boycotting the internet and those google commies in SF.
LOL you guys are back in the last century…..
You are all, as usual, missing the point. When I was a child, the zoo, and the de Young, and the aquarium were all funded by tax dollars, and admission was free. It was YOUR Reagonomic decision to abandon a civil society.
So, should you DARE to snivel about the consequences, you is getting your keister, verbally, kicked right round the block.
The park fees were levied long after Reagan was governor, but the major price hikes came almost exactly when the democrats took control of the State of California. The $7 fee to enter the arboretum did not begin until 2011, guess who controlled the state from top to bottom in 2011? Hint: It was not the GOP. Liberals had hoped this would produce an income of over $650,000 a year, but guess what? The income fell woefully short to only $117,000 because visitors didn’t want to fork out the ticket price after being priced gouged at the DeYoung and the Academy of Sciences, it was just too much. Libs you can try to hang this on the GOP but in fact the blame goes squarely on your bunch of uppity liberals. Once again you’ve taken out your madness on the poor people. Nice going.
Excellent research Jack…wish I had read ahead before commenting, LOL.
The history of the SF fine arts museums, including de Young museum, suggests otherwise:
While they do receive some (undefined) grant monies, the bulk of their revenue generates from contributions, memberships, store purchases and ticket sales. Apparently they’ve done well enough to create a new state of the art facility which opened in 2005. (the state is apparently not involved; this is a SF thang)
Geez Libby, is it possible for you to imagine anything other than tax and spend solutions?
I shudder to think what America would look like had we begun in your mind.
Like any such endeavor this museum requires funding (profits) to keep the doors open. Anyone who expects it to be “free” is a public mooch who doesn’t even want to pay when she benefits. (See liberals always want someone else to pay)
In the early days of this country when taxes were much lower and regulations less costly and punishing, people who were blessed with abundance through hard work used their money to do good in the community. They built or helped to build beautiful museums, opera houses, hospitals, libraries and colleges and then often created an endowment for the upkeep.
Now of course there is less incentive to contribute back since the big government socialists have decided they know better how to disperse property (profit) that doesn’t belong to them through a big politicized bureaucracy and heavy taxation.
Stoopid!
“Reaganomic” is an adjective, and you know perfectly well what it means. Prop 13 went through in the seventies between Ronald’s Governorship and Presidency, and he gets full credit for the con job he did on the citizenry. Our poor little state has been slowly starving to death ever since.
“User fees over taxes” is thoroughly Reaganomic, totally Republican, and you can just suffer the consequences quietly … or … face down a ferocious torrent of abuse.
And I’m right, … right!? … RIGHT !
Like when two generations of children who did not spend their weekends at the aquarium … rise up and burn your house down !
And you know it’s coming … your fear is, after all, well grounded.