Octomom
Posted on 04/08/2009 8:46:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
“Increasing tax rates decreases tax revenues as the afflicted flee to a less onerous location...”
..or simply stop producing as much as they used to.
Sorry Girlyman...
Looks like you’re sol!
You called it right! Good call on the Hasta La Vista Baby slave to the Kennedy clan!!!
Exactly, but the key is breaking the unions. My wife works in CA state government and it is no mystery that easily 20% of the people in her professional-heavy agency, and probably a greater percentage in other agencies, are total deadwood and spend their days explaining why they are "too busy" or unable to do an assignment if they are not playing solitaire on their computers (no kidding, I have walked through the office areas and seen it).
As in private business, bankruptcy/collapse is the only chance at restructuring the contracts (unions) that burden the state. And we need to throw out the Dem legislators that hand out billions to the organizations that will employ them at multi-100K salaries when they are termed out. Giving those self-serving idiots/criminals another lease on life just postpones what is really needed.
Why would I care about saving a Ca state employees job when they could give a rats ass about me losing mine.
I’m still here in tax-hell SoCal. Must admit the weather and natural beauty and life quality still have a hold on me. But think about leaving and where to go every day. I would be sad to leave. New Mexico and Tucson are high on the list...
What happens to the initiatives that were recently passed? Anyone know? Like the “Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act that just passed last year?
What happens when the voters vote for initiatives that cost money but the state has no money? Are they just put on hold? Or do they just fade away?
The state budget doubled in ten years. Now we can’t cut a thing without decimating every important service.
Sure Arnold. Someone doesn’t understand math indeed.
These bills are going to crash and burn. The populace is not happy right now.
The governor and the legislature are public enemies number one and two these days.
That's very good!
They create separate funds with special protections for their pet projects. Stem cell research, solar roofs, hi speed rail will all be fine.
But they'll shut off your water.
Looking forward to seeing all these props go down in flames. Vote to tax myself more and longer? Yeah, right. I can’t believe the Republicans caved for such a ridiculous so-called “compromise”.
I feel yer pain. The natural beauty of Cali is a strong attractant. I was born a mile from the beach in Monterey. The place is in my blood.
But, the sane and productive people are now outnumbered there by the insane and non-productive.
When the culture degraded to the point where we penalized the producers and rewarded the non-producers, we reached a point of no return on the dwindling spiral.
Alex de Tocqueville observed that a pure democracy will destroy itself when the mob begins to vote itself largesse from the public treasury.
Impoverishing the productive segment of society through excessive taxation causes them to either cheat, flee, or withdraw their production. This is what’s happening in California and other liberal states now.
I don’t recall the specifics of Arnold’s 2005 ballot measures now, but I do remember that they were all steps in the right direction, and were supported by conservatives at the time.
When every single one of them failed to pass, I knew that California had passed a point of no return. In my observation, the liberals were finally in a permanent majority, which couldn’t mean anything but an imminent demise of the state.
I decided that I’d rather not be a part of that collapse, and pulled out then.
What happens to the initiatives that were recently passed? Anyone know? Like the “Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act that just passed last year?
What happens when the voters vote for initiatives that cost money but the state has no money? Are they just put on hold? Or do they just fade away?
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Projects like the HighSpeed Rail Job will just get in line for their chunk of the dough... they will suck hind tit tho. They won’t fade away, unfortunately
This state doesn’t have any priorities in case you haven’t noticed, except scare out the rich and businesses as fast as they can.. Crazy but facts speak louder than words here in HooplaLand.
Hate to tell ya, but those props were a sham just as this latest set is a sham. Arnold and his buddies feed the media with propaganda telling everyone that
they are “good for California” and that there is “bipartisan” support — when there isn’t. The liberal MSM accommodates him by repeating the mantra, ad infinitum.
Or else.
California got this way because of the Easterners who came here.
Looking forward to Obama's "Federal receiver"?
He'll tax us until the cows get lost.
Yes he does. He's just taking orders.
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