Posted on 08/16/2015 10:48:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Driving across California is like going from Mississippi to Massachusetts without ever crossing a state line.
Consider the disconnects: California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion. It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher; its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys. Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom of the nation in both math and science.
The state's public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous pensions and benefits, but California's retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion. The state's gas taxes -- at over 49 cents per gallon -- are among the highest in the nation, but its once unmatched freeways, like 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares unchanged since the early 1960s
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All my life I wanted to move to California. In the 90s, I finally did. I left ten years later. I realized that the California I wanted to live in was the 1960s-era California, when Republicans ran the show. I wanted the California depicted in “Mad Men.” That California does not exist anymore.
Two girls for every boy.
That’s because half of california is now part of mexico due to the “reconquista” by la raza, and the other half is owned by bat-shit crazy wealthy socialists/communists, who haven’t ran out of other peoples money yet.
California today is run by just madmen (and madwomen).
I realized it was no longer California when we got ticketed for having a bonfire on the beach.
Mr R and I were born and raised in CA. We escaped 5 years ago to America where we can have our guns, little or no taxes and freedom. Best thing we did.
Almost all of our tax money is being used to subsidize illegal immigration. California has gone from the Golden State to the toilet in less than half a generation.
We passed prop 187 which would have stopped all payments and benefits to illegal immigration. It was passed by a large margin, but it was overturned by the courts. Now we have illegal immigrants voting in large blocks. They don’t obey the immigration laws, so why would they obey the voting laws.
Our legislature is literally an arm of the Mexican Government. If California had reciprocity with other states for lawyers, I’d be out of here tomorrow.
shades of the beach boys...
Don’t forget the asians. They also tend to vote DemoRat.
2000’s California, two Boys for every Boy!
What he says is true. I have lived in California for 77 years and we are on the verge of becoming under Mexican jurisdiction. We are really being conquered.
I recall driving across the state line into Nevada it was the experience of leaving an uneven cobblestone payment without the cobble and a bumpy, jarring ride from this
to this
just like everyone else describes it.
There are residential streets around Sacramento that I literally do not drive more than ten miles an hour. If someone is behind me I pull over and let them pass and follow them at ten MPH.
I remember when.
Thank you Damn 'o Rats, unions, and taxpayer-subsidized cheap labor.
CA was once really the golden state. My cousin moved there in the late 70s, started a business, and thrived, for a while. Come 2014 he decamped & moved away with his business.
Damn 'o Rats, unions, and taxpayer-subsidized cheap labor CORRUPTION!
California is a casino that loses money, benefitting human carp...
Any idiot can point out what's already happened. Apparently these two are afraid or too stupid to admit why and how.
I honestly don’t understand why any business is still open there.
The lefty folks in Sacramento are Evil beyond belief. They have a failed belief system which has led to disaster wherever it has been practiced in the world. They qualify, under the Einstein definition, for the insane asylum. Moonbeam rules and his nickname says it all. When the Golden Gate Bridge collapses from disrepair, the wake up call will have sounded. Until then, California will quickly become Baja Norte. Sacramento Democrats are truly Evil.
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