It’s sadly all true. But then I don’t see anywhere where a $6,000 investment in a $30,000 “first home,” 51 years ago would have left us with our present home with a value of $2.2 million and property taxes protected by Prop 13.
I used to have two groups of relatives living in California. One is a career military family and was transferred out about 3 years ago. The other family is native to California and stuck there for economic i.e. job reasons.
In the news there seems to be a race to see which will collapse first, California or Illinois. I would hate to bet on the lasting power of either one. It would require a heck of a lure to get me to move to either one.
I used to have two groups of relatives living in California. One is a career military family and was transferred out about 3 years ago. The other family is native to California and stuck there for economic i.e. job reasons.
In the news there seems to be a race to see which will collapse first, California or Illinois. I would hate to bet on the lasting power of either one. It would require a heck of a lure to get me to move to either one.
Obviously CA will have to raise taxes.
In CA, people get to live in very modest homes at very great expense. With the illegals allowed to enter freely (and get free healthcare, education, and welfare), areas of the state are coming to look like third world slums. In March, my son and I took a train to CA, which really gives a perspective not seen when taking airplanes. In the Bay Area, illegals live in shacks made out of trash, no doubt similar to the living conditions they left behind in whatever third world h*llhole they came from. Up in Sonoma County, some areas look the same as they did when I was a kid—never renovated, hardly even maintained.
I grew up in a beautiful state. But its beauty has faded, destroyed by the implementation of liberal policies over decades.
Which it resembles more and more every day!
I started doing this state GDP adjustment with COLA over a decade ago.
Plus they’re subsidized by us to the tune of about 30 to 40 billion a year in the form of SALT deductions.
The GOPe tax bill addresses this by removing the property tax deduction exclusion.
You live near Salinas right?
Take a drive north from there all the way to Santa Rosa and then come back and tell us California’s economy is collapsing.
There’s a LOT of things about this state that are bad.
But the economic engine is not one of them. There’s so much money here I’m surprised the streets are not paved with it.
“A full 50% of the California economic growth miracle comes from a few dozen Silicon Valley firms – think Apple, Google, Facebook. It’s a banana republic of high tech.”
Most prosperous economies are strengthened by just a few big companies, and I bet that Michigan and Ohio would be more than happy to have Apple, Google and Facebook headquartered in their states.
Kali-Fornia is a dead state walking!
If you live there, LEAVE!
The Governator was perhaps the last chance to put the State on the right course, and he blew it Big Time. The Leftists are in every aspect of State life now and almost, note - almost, impossible to control. All I see from the GOP is a series of requests for money but no action. We’re Doomed with the present lot!!!!!!
I have friends and family still behind the iron curtain of Kalifornistanico. I try to tell them to get out if they don’t actually need to be there for work but they rarely listen and even then; begrudgingly.
What to do? What to do?
California Indian name for runny bull s**t.
Why, I wonder what happened?!