[Oldexpat]

CA is broke. By the time you factor in the health care for retired state workers and the growing underclass tax consumers it will get worse.
The can’t tax their way out of it..taxes are too high already. The state is unattractive to most business.
The Economist blames the Republicans for trying to hold the line..without them the state would plunge even faster.
It is the Golden State no more. It is a Third world country..rich and really poor.

[kingu]

California’s in a financial crunch because of entrenched unions. There’s a union for everything, and they wield a heck of a lot of power. It’s made worse by the huge number of illegals in the state.

Slashing how the state spends money would be the first sensible action. I found it laughable that one of the few things that isn’t a union, the state lottery commission, is facing huge pressure to be reorganized so that more money can be fed into the school systems.

[tgusa]

I lived in San Diego in the late 70s. It was close to paradise then. Went out to Ranch Bernardo on business recently and took a look around - California has been lost. The rest of America should take note.