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Don’t Disregard Our COVID-19 Sacrifices by Raising Taxes on Disinfectants
Cost of the tax increase would fall on restaurants, schools, colleges/universities, hospitals, and childcare centers
By Andrew Lara, June 9, 2021 3:58 pm
During this past year, my fellow nurses and I have been on the front lines helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Like so many other frontline workers, we have all made huge personal sacrifices. As some nurses have traveled across the country to help, many have transitioned to new departments, learned new patient care routines/practices, and the most heart-wrenching thing has been holding the hand of our COVID-19 patients so they wouldn’t have to die alone.
I am concerned that the California State Legislature is considering a budget proposal to increase the tax on bleach and other disinfectants in hospitals, nursing homes, daycare centers, schools, businesses, and other high-traffic areas.
With a $75 billion state surplus, we should not be discussing raising the tax on disinfectants by 90%. If anything, California should be lowering the costs of these critical products that help us safeguard patients, healthcare workers, and the public.
State and local health agencies require that businesses, schools, nursing homes, and childcare centers “establish procedures to routines clean and disinfect commonly touched surfaces and objects throughout the workday.”
As our businesses begin to offer more indoor seating, outdoor events such as fairs and concerts are starting to get scheduled. Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that our students should be attending a full-time school in Fall 2021.
The California Department of Public Health and local county health departments continue to promote the routine cleaning and use of disinfectants to help prevent the further spread of COVID-19 and other viruses.
As our state begins to open up, let us remember that we have not yet defeated COVID-19.
These past few months, local county public health officials found three different COVID-19 variants (Brazil, United Kingdom, and South Africa) in Northern California.
Let us not disregard and forget the many sacrifices, loss of life, and the countless unemployed and homeless Californians.
I strongly urge that our state leaders consider the negative impact of what it means to increase the tax on disinfectants, making it more costly to our hospitals, schools, businesses, nursing homes, childcare centers, and the public.
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Those same front-line workers who helped mandate completely-superstitious use of face diapers, inappropriate use of PCR tests, politicization of medicine by banning early treatment, and the sabotage of the entire planet to promote their own self-deification?
Never confuse a communist idiot for a hero.
Well put. Fear is a great motivator. Government has a monopoly on fear.
Exactly. Tired of hearing from whining nurses about being on the front line and sacrificing etc. What did they expect when they got into the health care field?
Councilman Lara,
Thank for bringing this to our attention. This is the first I have heard of this ludicrous proposal.
Interesting, that they pay lip service to first responders but feel the need to tax something so basic that helps protect those they praise. I guess your labor union have not come out against this? As we have witnessed Newsolini will do the Union bidding and vice-versa.
What you are seeing is economic stupidity and intellectual ineptitude in real time. CA government stooges see a high demand consumer product, think “hey we should tax that” so we can fund the unsustainable teachers’ pensions, and BAM consumers stop making that purchase or substitute the product or its source. How’s that weed tax working out for ya, huh??
I appreciate the article and learning about the tax proposal. I do not understand what “many sacrifices, loss of life, countless unemployed and homeless” has to do with taxes on disinfectant.
You would have to be a leftist to understand. These same nurses and other health care workers had plenty of time to choreograph all those stupid dance videos on the internet.
greed and corruption