I first reported in April 2023 about a new California state law that would require utility companies to come up with a fixed-rate plan as a way to help stabilize rates and make billing more “equitable.”
Hence, the state’s soon-to-be-implemented “equitable” policy will base residential electricity bills on income rather than usage, even as public and political opposition to the idea builds in the Democratic coalition.
I titled my 2023 article “Marxism, California Style? New State Law Will Lead Energy Companies to Bill Customers Based on Income” because of a phrase popularized by Karl Marx as part of a larger communist ideological statement (emphasis mine):
In a higher phase of communist society … only then can the narrow horizon of the bourgeois right be fully left behind, and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
If…
