https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-governor-wants-spend-640000-each-10000-mental-health-beds

California Governor Wants To Spend $640,000 Each For 10,000 Mental Health Beds
BY TYLER DURDEN

SATURDAY, NOV 04, 2023 - 09:40 AM
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 1 seeks a $6.4 billion tax on millionaires to fund 10,000 mental health beds...
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California voters will decide only one measure in the March 5 primary — and that’s exactly what Gov. Gavin Newsom wanted. He championed bills to borrow $6.4 billion to pay for 10,000 new mental health treatment beds and to overhaul California’s 20-year-old law that funds mental health services with a tax on millionaires. They will be combined into one proposition — Prop. 1.

The Legislature cooperated by clearing the March ballot of potentially competing bond measures for schools, colleges and housing — and of three constitutional amendments, which were put off until the Nov. 5 general election.

And Thursday, Newsom officially launched his campaign for the ballot measure, with the slogan “Treatment not Tents” — a nod to both public concern about homelessness and his efforts to clear encampments. Politico reports that he’s putting $6 million into the campaign to start.

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