Posted on 11/11/2023 9:46:09 AM PST by Signalman
According to a new study, the cost of living in California imposes an extra $26,479 each year on a typical middle-class family.
“Our methodology calculates that a typical middle-class family of three earning $130,000 a year faces a “Cost of California” penalty of $26,478.72 versus if they simply paid the national average of cost in each category,” wrote the Transparency Foundation in their report.
The study compared costs in major household budget categories between national and California averages, such as housing, taxes and transportation. In California, renters pay 47% more than the national average, while homeowners pay 32% more, healthcare services cost 42% more, and state and local taxes are 14% higher, among others.
There were only two categories Californians experienced any savings over the national average were 3% in health insurance, which is subsidized by higher taxes paid to the state government, and homeowner’s insurance, which is 68% cheaper in California because of government-run rate change limits that are driving insurers out of the state as claims exceed insurance premiums.
Some California legislators view the report as an opportunity to highlight the need to reduce regulations and make other efforts to make the cost of doing business — and living — lower in California.
“With irresponsible policies and shameless tax increases, the majority party has made this state a very difficult place to raise a family or pursue your dreams,” said State Sen. Roger Niello, R–Fair Oaks, to The Center Square. “A very important observation of this report is that politicians point blame at others when they are really the ones to blame. Better policy and budget decisions that put Californians first need to be implemented soon before Californians are priced out of this state.”
A recent poll from the Public Policy Institute of California found 71% of Californians believe their children will be financially worse off than they are, suggesting many believe California’s economic prospects may be fading off into the sunset.
The article implies this is some unexplained mystery. “Gee, don’t Californian’s have it rough?” No idea that voting for Democrats on almost every state an local level just couldn’t be a factor.
Sorry for my fellow conservative brethren in CA, but this is what people in California keep voting for so they must be okay for it.
Young folks on blogs often ask “how do I go from broke to wealthy”.
If they live in CA the answer is a no brainer.
Run.
Factoid—the median CA home costs five times as much as the median WV house.
(...while median CA salaries are less than double median WV salaries)
The inflated CA numbers means higher federal and state income taxes on top of all the other damage.
I heard groceries are so high, Pedo Joe is going to declare Thanksgiving, “Taco Thursday.”
That is a low ball number. On average the penalty has been 30-40% for over a decade — and that is before that corrupt BeijingBiden admin took basics like food and gas out of the CPI.
But there is a solution.
Move.
It’s the “Sunshine, Coastline, and Gorgeous Places” tax.
Yes, but they earn an extra $80,000 vs living in the Midwest.
Yeah, but they get $100k a year in govt benefits, right?
"Sorry for my fellow conservative brethren in CA, but this is what people in California keep voting for so they must be okay for it."
I wouldn't blame California's socio-economic problems on the voters.
Over Half of 2022 Mail-In Ballots Are Still Unaccounted for in California (1.24.23)
All Democratic and Republican Trump supporters in the nation need come to the rescue of ordinary California voters by electing a new federal Congress that will actually do its constitutionally enumerated duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government.
"Article IV, Section 4 (4.4): The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
In fact, the very corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of Congress are unsurprisingly not lifting a finger to enforce Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, that section a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged [emphases added], except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Regarding the Section 2 penalty, consider the zero tolerance "hair trigger" wording of that clause that screams for the feds to investigate allegations of vote-counting fraud.
"is denied to any"
"or in any way abridged,"
In fact, if this were a better world, the federal government should be warning the states before every election that the feds will be darkening their doorway to investigate complaints about vote-counting problems.
And that's not counting the "attitude tax."
Going to California with an aching in my heart.
No extra charge for the wildfires and power outages and crime, so that helps.
Have California friends who may have to sell their house - move to less expensive area. She is not happy! Doesn’t want to start over again in a strange area she does not know as she sells high end real-state. He’s an Attorney. Both professions rough to move.
Utopian Tax
I was born and raised in Southern California, Bellflower Paramount, and Downey areas.
I figured it out in 1979, get out! The Democrats are destroying the state. So I left.
Utopian weather, yes. But horrendous government, ultra-progressive policies, drugs, overrun by illegals, homeless everywhere, needles everywhere...not exactly “utopian.” That’s why I focused on natural beauty and weather. They haven’t ruined those...yet. Wait until they figure out how to tax those.
Wait a sec...this $26,000 penalty IS tax on those!
California the instruction manual on how to fail at everything.
Hate this place but locked in with few options if any to escape.
You can be making $20/hr and it will only pay for a 1 bedroom apt ($2,000 a month) and utilities and a old car with some food and no money left over.
I knew a guy who got a promotion by State Farm Insurance to move to Ventura from Houston. It was a huge pay boost. His standard of living went from being able to afford a 3 bedroom apartment to living in a one room apartment. He and his wife were working and still couldn’t keep up. They left after 2 years of living in the people’s republic of California.
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