Monday, March 30, 2026

March, 2026, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Maryland Politicians' Fixation On Tampons, A Potential/Likely Ukrainian Money Laundering Scheme. and Yamaha Escapes From California

 We have  spent a lot of time recently talking about which city or state will go bankrupt first. That race to  bankruptcy court seems to be accelerating as politicians in these vulnerable cities and states are starting to realize that their policies and ignorance are causing financial crises across the country.


However, we will step back from that theme for a few days since political class insanity in other areas has continued unabated and needs to  be discussed and ridiculed.


1)We do not often talk about the state of  Maryland from a political class insanity perspective but that is our lead piece of insanity today. But first, consider:


  • Maryland has about 7,000 homeless folks in the state.

  • About 556,000 or 9.1% of the state residents are considered poor.

  • 1,315 state residents died from drug overdoses in 2025.

  • State residents suffer from the 15th highest crime rate in the country.

  • The state government  is facing a  $1.5 billion budget shortfall.


Yes, there are some very important issues and crises facing Maryland residents that involve poverty, crime, and homelessness. But that did not stop state government politicians from  devoting time, resources, and what little brain power they have  on the following ridiculous issue:


  •  A proposed legislation by Democratic Delegate Terri Hill, and  co-sponsored by ten other Democrats, would require EVERY government/public building in the state to stock tampons and feminine hygiene products in  public restrooms.

  • This requirement extends not just to  women’s restrooms but also men’s restrooms.

  • EVERY restroom in every public/government building.

  • Further idiocy is  that the  proposed legislation explicitly makes it clear  that the stocked tampons would have to be  "appropriately  sized tampons,”  whatever that means.

  • When pressed, the sponsors of the legislation could not provide an estimate of  what it would cost or what an appropriate sized tampon is.

  • Republican Delegate, Kathy Szeliga, saw the stupidity of this requirement when she questioned the sponsors of the legislation: "What are appropriately sized tampons?" I've never heard of such a thing. What do you consider appropriate?"

  • Kerr's inane answer: "Just a regular sized tampon in the bathroom."

  • Then why was the language appropriately sized tampons put into  the  legislation?

  • But Szeliga was not done  ripping this idea  apart:  "Even if they determine to shift some of the cost to the consumer, this still creates hundreds-of-thousands of dollars worth of administrative costs to put tampons in men's bathrooms – just for the administrative costs."

  • So the administrative costs would be hundreds of thousands of dollars which does not account for the cost of the actual tampons.

  • But Szeliga was not  done: "Instead of tackling actual problems like out of control spending and other real problems, electric bills that people cannot afford, they pivot to nonsense like putting tampons in men's bathrooms."


Calling this  proposed legislation  nonsense is being kind. The state does not have  enough tax money to  fund  its budget but these folks want to divert taxpayer  money to put tampons in  men’s restrooms. Maryland residents are struggling with high crime, high utility  and gas costs, addiction problems, poverty, and homelessness and yet tampons in men’s rooms apparently are a higher  priority for some of those sitting  in the state government.  True insanity.


2)Recently declassified intelligence documents reveal what has to be one of the most disgusting alleged money laundering schemes of the American political class:


  • During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars were sent to Ukraine,  one of the  most politically corrupt countries in the world, to help fight back the Russian invasion.

  • We have previously discussed the likely proof that upwards of half of that money never  made it to the intended purposes and was corruptly siphoned off before ever helping to fight back the Russians.

  • If that was not bad enough, in late 2022, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted messages between Ukrainian officials.

  • Those  messages discussed a scheme to take part of that taxpayer funding that Biden had  sent them to fight the Russians and send it back to the United States to help fund Biden’s reelection campaign.

  • In other words, American taxpayers of all political leanings would be financing the Presidential  campaign expenses of Democrat Joe Biden.

  • Director  Of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has  opened an investigation into whether the Ukrainian officials ever went through with their plan to  redirect funds back to Biden.

  • According to the released documents:  “The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose.”

  • The funds would be funneled back into the Biden campaign using U.S. companies as subcontractors on the bogus infrastructure plan to make the  money laundering even more  difficult to track: “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.”

  • Given that Biden was very generous in giving American taxpayer  money to the Ukrainians, it  is  not surprising that a plan was discussed to get Biden four more years in office and continue to receive American tax dollars for their own benefit, personally and for the war effort.


Anyone who has followed the Biden crime family should not be surprised by this alleged and potential money laundering scheme.  Also, previous work by the DOGE folks found that many times U.S.  taxpayer dollars were used to fund NGO projects via USAID all  over the world with some of that money eventually finding its way back to Democratic politicians in his country for their use. Disgusting disregard for taxpaying Americans.


3)A continuing theme in our blog is the  discussion of what city or state will  go  bankrupt first. As these vulnerable  cities and states  constantly raise taxes and business regulation, businesses in these states leave for other states that have lower tax and regulation burdens, taking their taxable  assets with them. Some of those recent discussions include the following posts:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-clueless.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-hochuls.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-seattle-and.html


California is one of those states rapidly heading to bankruptcy court. Many state based  companies have already fled the state in total or moved  major portions of their  companies to other states for better economic and business opportunities: Toyota, Tesla, Chevron, Schwab, Oracle, Twitter/X, Palantir, Public Storage, In-N-Out, Valero,  and thousands of other, smaller businesses.


And that out migration of businesses from the state continue:


  • Yamaha has decided to pull  its headquarters out of California.

  • The company has been in California for almost 50 years.

  • They are moving across the country to Kennesaw, Georgia.

  • As reported by the California Globe:  “Another large business is leaving California. Yamaha says Sayonara to Governor Gavin Newsom after 50 years in the once-Golden State…” and this exodus “is going to hurt Gov. Newsom who has had a lot of success chasing out hundreds to thousands of California businesses or subsidiaries, which fled to business-friendly red states including Jelly Belly, Chevron, X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab, and Toyota Motor North America.”

  • According to CBS News: “The company’s headquarters in Cypress, California, had been its home since 1979 after Yamaha acquired the land the year before….ATVs, boat engines, personal watercraft, and other motorized products had already moved its marine business to Kennesaw in 1999 and its motorsports business in 2019.”


How is it possible that California's politicians, and the  voters that continually elect them, do not understand basic economic concepts: a company will maximize its profits and thus,  will  look  for ways to minimize its costs, expenses, taxes, and business overregulation. Every company that leaves the state takes employees and their taxable income with them. And it also reduces overall state economic growth since those exiting residents and businesses do  not spend money on other state companies’ products and services (e.g.  retail stores, pizza shops, movie theaters, etc.), further reducing the state tax base.


Enough insanity for today: more taxable assets leaving California, a possible government/Biden money laundering effort for the ages, and ridiculous Maryland politicians’ priorities.


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Sunday, March 29, 2026

The Race To Bankruptcy Court: Clueless New York Governor Leads Her State Towards the Financial Precipice

 It seems we are in a little bit of a rut in that we seem to be getting overwhelmed with news about our choice for states and major cities that are likely to go bankrupt relatively soon. As always, our top state governments that we think are nearing bankruptcy include New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California. Our top major cities we think are rapidly approaching bankruptcy include New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.


Before reviewing the latest news and seeing which state or city is making the best progress towards government bankruptcy, let’s review how these cities and states got themselves into this financial death spiral position to begin with:


  • A government entity keeps expanding its budget, eventually putting pressure on the tax revenue stream it receives.

  • At some point, rather than cut government spending or make its programs more efficient financially, the politicians in charge raise taxes to meet the ever growing government expenditures.

  • The raising of taxes causes some residents and businesses to leave the city or state for less tax burdensome areas, reducing the tax base and reducing the revenue stream.

  • Rather than cut expenses and become more efficient to match the reduced tax revenue stream, politicians in the above cities or states raise the tax burden even more.

  • This causes more residents and businesses to flee the city or state, further reducing the tax base and tax revenue stream.

  • At some point politicians panic and raise taxes more and start cutting vital government services (e.g. police, fire, education) in order to try and balance government spending against the shrinking tax base and revenue stream.

  • The reduction in quality of government services in particular and quality of life in general drives more residents and businesses out of the area.

  • Eventually, the expenses, costs and financial liabilities outstrip the reduced tax stream and bankruptcy occurs.


Okay that’s the process, now lets specifically check the progress one specific of the above listed government entities, New York, are making to achieve this bankruptcy goal  against this process:

Note: The first point discussion segment  listed below is a copy of a  discussion we had on a previous post about how we think that the state government of New York is the  leading state likely to go bankrupt first. It is listed here again to set up the second discussion:


1)The following  discussion points proves that some cities and states are definitely going  to  go  bankrupt pretty soon because politicians are ignorant of economic realities and really and just plain stupid when  it comes to  common sense. But before we explore one of the most inane recent reactions to the financial  death spiral one state finds itself in, consider a little  history and background:


  • Back in 2022, the New York Post reported on some incredibly stupid comments made by the governor of New  York, Kathy Hochul.

  • Hochul is a Democrat and  told state Republican  voters back in  2022 that they should “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. You are not New Yorkers.”

  • Yes, the top political  official in the state told about half  of her state’s constituents, about 5.4 million  Republican voters, that they should just leave and not come back, likely one of the  most insensitive and  disgusting comments  ever made by a sitting politician.

  • The Post reported at the time that the state government of New York was staring at a five year anticipated budget gap of $14 billion and yet she told a large portion of the state’s taxpayers to leave town.

  • Of course,  back in 2022, many of  the state’s residents and businesses had already taken her advice, driven out by high taxes, high crime rates, and high business regulation, since over the preceding ten years, 1.5 million New York  residents had already left the state with 350,000 leaving during the year long pandemic epidemic.

  • At the  time of  her  comments, she was proposing a record high state government budget of  $220 billion, making the out immigration of residents and  their tax  dollars even more financially dangerous.

  • In 2022 when the Post reported on Hochul’s comments, New York  City by itself had lost 300,000 jobs during the previous two years.

  • Opinion  polls conducted at that time showed that the number one reason people were leaving the state was overwhelmingly associated with high taxes.,

  • And finally  the Post article reported that an IRS analysis of those people  leaving New  York had an average income of over $100,000, i.e.  the highest paying taxpayers were the  ones getting out of the state.


So, four years ago the governor of a state with a record setting budget and record setting budget deficits told millions  of taxpayers, and some of its highest paying taxpayers, to go away and not come back. An elected official, who is supposed to  equally represent every citizen in their domain, told half of them to go  to hell, they were  not welcome in  their home state.


So Hochul sets the stage with her insensitive and despicable comments in 2022 for the following reality:


  • A recent New York Post article covered some recent Hocul comments where she said  that New York must win back the high earning taxpayers that fled to Florida.

  • Yes, four years after she told millions of state residents to “just leave,” she finally realized, duh!, that they took a lot of tax revenue with them and that she created a financial  crisis in New York.

  • Rather than reduce government spending  to  match the reduced New York state government tax base, she insists that more tax dollars,  this time by former  state residents  coming back to the state to pay high taxes,  is the remedy.

  • Her out of touch with reality statements to that effect include: “I need people of high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. There are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. OK! Cut me the checks. But if you want to be supportive, maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home. Because our tax base has been eroded.” 


Can  a politician  be any more  out  of  touch with reality than Hochul? She does not want people  to  come back to  a better life that she created in the state. She blatantly just wants them back  to pay for her government programs, i.e. “CUT ME THE CHECKS!” Don’t come back for a better life for you and your family  or your business, just come back to fix the tax  base that I helped  erode by telling  over 5 million taxpayers to  leave the state.


But her behavior is  completely consistent  with the process described above of how a state goes bankrupt: raise taxes and drive out residents and businesses who do  not want to pay high taxes, do not make government smaller or more efficient due to  the the smaller tax base, raise taxes to overcome the reduced tax base which drives out more residents and businesses, etc. Hochul made the process even worse when she actually told residents to  get  out of town, her stupidity is amazing.


This reinforces our belief that New York state will be  the first state government to go  bankrupt, a process that is accelerating, a reality the governor finally realizes is happening. Unfortunately her  solution is ridiculous and shallow: why would people who left a bad  situation voluntarily return to that same situation?


2)Okay, the above paragraphs set the stage for some of the latest state related statistics related to Hochul telling millions of her citizens to go to  Florida and  take their taxable income and assets with them:


  • Recent IRS tax return analyses show that it is not just billionaires leaving the state of New York.

  • Between 2020 and 2024,  according to the iRs data and analysis, a whopping 892 New York based companies left New York state.

  • They took $47 billion worth of income with them, business income that the New York state government could no longer rely on for taxation.

  • 38% of those exiting companies landed in income tax free Florida while other lower taxation states such as Texas and  North Carolina also landed a hefty chunk of those businesses leaving the state.

  • But it  is not just the almost 900 businesses that left the state.

  • Between 2020 and  2024, the state’s population decreased by about 348,000 residents who also took their taxable income with them to other states.

  • Given the loss of 348,000 residents, it is obvious that not just billionaires are fleeing the states for lower taxes, lower business regulations, lower crime rates, and better quality of life.

  • This represented about a 1.7% decrease in population while the national population during that time grew by 2.6%.

  • Thus, there is a 4.3% loss to the state’s  population relative to the national population growth (1.7% plus 2.6%).


Hundreds of lost businesses, hundreds of thousands fewer residents, and billions lost in taxable  income.  Hocchul told them to leave and by golly, they took  her advice, enabling the New  York state government to take a commanding lead in the race to bankruptcy court.


As new  developments occur across the likely bankrupt candidates for city and state we will continue the discussion. But given that New York City under Mamdani and New York state under Hochul seem to be clueless on how to manage their government entities as they continue raising taxes, which drives taxable income out of the state and city, we still maintain they still lead the financial death  spiral into bankruptcy.


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