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Let's hope he pays up because California could use the money for infrastructure and environmental remediations.

He should have to pay based upon what the law says, not because of California's addiction to spending.

That money is a drop in the bucket. At best it would pay for one traffic intersection.

$50,000 doesn't even get you a stop light installed. This isn't the 1940s where hundreds of dollars could buy something meaningful.

Whoops, didn't see that the cap was on what the state would owe, not what he would owe.

A whole intersection? Yeah right. More like one letter on a stop sign.

$50,000 doesn't even get you a stop light installed.

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