Posted on 04/18/2022 10:15:55 AM PDT by Signalman
California residents, who haven’t elected even a faux-Republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger to statewide office since 2006, say they’re sick of the high taxes they keep voting for.
The numbers are overwhelming — shockingly so — for a one-party “progressive” state like California.
The Los Angeles Times soft-sold its own poll with this headline: “Taxes too high? A lot of Californians think so.”
That headline could have been a contender for Michael Kinsley’s ’80s vintage Boring Headline Contest. The leading example he gave was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.”
Or at least … a lot of Californians think so.
Yawn.
But the UC Berkeley/Times poll found a whole lot more than “a lot” of Californians who think they’re paying more than their fair share.
A third would be “a lot” in a state of 37 million people.
Half would be “a whole lot” in a state that big.
But that’s not how many tax-cutters UC Berkeley/Times found.
According to the study, nearly two-thirds of Californians thought their taxes, state and federal, were too high.
Two-thirds. That’s a massive and overwhelming majority.
The breakdown doesn’t look much better for tax-and-spending-happy California Democrats:
Concern about taxes is much more common among conservatives than liberals. In the current survey, 83% of Republicans, compared with 54% of Democrats and 66% of nonpartisan voters, said they thought their families paid too much in taxes. The rest mostly said the levy was “about right.” Almost no one says they should be paying more.
You’d expect California Republicans — I assume, based on the poll, that they haven’t yet been driven to extinction — to think that taxes are too high.
But 54% of Democrats agree with those nasty, regressive conservatives?
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Stupid is as stupid votes.
No taxation without... oh wait.
The messed up part is that rather than electing politcians who will lower taxes in California, they will move to low tax states and then try to raise the taxes there.
The Beach Boys song “I wish they all could be California girls” doesn’t apply to those girls’ voting habits. LOL
The rest of the country is tired of subsidizing reckless spending at the state level with federal tax breaks.
Democracy!
The problem is they continue to flood over the Sierra Nevada mountains into Nevada like a horde of locusts destroying everything they touch. In the 80s, Nevada was the wild west, now its freakin woke
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result each time................
Gee, it’s almost as if the Democratic party CHEATS in California and does not represent the people at all, shocking I know
Sadly though a lot of them are social justice ‘warriors’ who think that their high taxes are necessary to ‘offset climate change’ and to give ‘reparations’ to black folks- They just don’t like that THEY have to be the ones that must pay it-
Have a relative who lives there and is fine with paying through the nose- but then she turns around and begs for money- when she wants to travel, or go to beauty salons- always crying poverty- mention to her that her liberal socialist state is draining her financially, and you get a liberal lecture from her- usually screaming-
You can’t reason with liberals-
California residents, who haven’t elected even a faux-Republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger to statewide office since 2006, say they’re sick of the high taxes they keep voting for.
I recall trolls right here on FR complaining about the Trump-era tax reform that kept Californicators from passing on part of those high taxes on to the rest of the country via fed deductions, and the rich grifter Pelosi claiming it was somehow a tax cut for the rich.
Of course they think their taxes are too high. But they think it’s because a couple of dozen very rich people and the big corporations aren’t paying their fair share.
I would laugh but California is a very large part of our economy and the future of every American is tied more to this single state than any other.
California is a trainwreck. One party rule and a healthy does of the “good idea fairy” is proving to be a disaster and as they crater their state economy the US economy will follow close behind.
You cannot dispute the math even as many of us (me included) have some feelings of Schadenfreude”. The same can be said on a smaller scale for New York and Illinois.
We may not like their politics but these are important economic engines for the nation and we can only pray that Texas and Florida provide the example for voters although I am uncertain if its not too late in the deep blue states.
I have no faith in the integrity of California elections. Granted that demographics are stacked against you… So many times I’d think we were going to do really well this time only to get in line, look around me at the others in line, and go “crap!”. We are so doomed.
Still, even years ago ballot harvesting was common, and signing up non-citizens was common. And it has only got worse. So I don’t think you can believe any vote count in California. The state has been hijacked, and who is going to investigate it? Newsom?
even a faux-Republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger to statewide office since 2006, .... I recall trolls right here on FR complaining
***complaining about Ahnold being a soccer mom democrat in disguise? We had a strong contingent who had the lead — supporters of Tom McClintock — until Ahnold announced. And then the RINO contingent here on FR went into overdrive.
What did that get us?
That is not even close to what I said.
They’ll just vote for lesser known democrats.
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