[mulligan]

State is run by morons.

[sphinx]

California is the wealthiest part of Mexico. What’s the problem?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Because they are well on their way down the path that Venezuela started on in the 1990s.

[JudyinCanada]

Well on its way to sh*thole status.

[Da Coyote]

Mexifornia libs are successfully approaching the progressive utopia: Rich folks and the slaves who support them.

[SandRat]

OK, all you Holly-Weirds open up your wallet and empty it. Your SSreong-Box to!

[elcid1970]

Any description of Mexifornia should include the word “magnet”.

Think on it.....

;^)

[Thibodeaux]

The poor are poor because the cost of living is excessively high. In california poverty is relative to earning capacity that is excessively high.

The cost of transforming a desert into a thriving region is beyond the regional ability to pay the bill. On top of that taxes based on a percentage of the excessive living costs automatically create poverty.

Having become shitholes, areas in LA and Oakland become magnets for poor because the cost of living is lower.

[Vision Thing]

ca leaders fought valiantly and successfully to legalize public urination and defecation. They are the true golden shower warriors, and they are daCacafornia dreaming, on a summer's day. #shi+hole

[ctdonath2]

“From 1992 to 2015, state and local governments spent nearly $1 trillion to help the poor.”

That’s about $7333/yr each, and does not include federal welfare.
Federal poverty line, for a household of 4, is $6275/yr each. (2x that if alone, decreases on household size.)

[rlmorel]

Thanks for posting it, SeekAndFind...another great American Thinker article, one of the contributing reasons to the income issues many in California have:

"...Counties and local governments have imposed restrictive land-use regulations that drove up the price of land and dwellings," explains analyst Wendell Cox. "Middle-income households have been forced to accept lower standards of living while the less fortunate have been driven into poverty by the high cost of housing..."

Granted, these are their elected officials doing this to them, but it should serve as an object example of why over-regulation and bureaucracy hurts the people it pretends to help.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Because they keep importing more poverty.

[5th MEB]

WHY?
Because the Commucrats in California have turned us into a THIRD WORLD SHITHOLE!

That’s why.

[sparklite2]

one out of five California residents are poor.

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There will always be a lowest fifth of the population. Always. Poverty is a relative term. Those in poverty here would be elites in the shithole nations they probably came from.