John Tranny? Is that a typo or is that his real name that he goes by?
On topic, however, Just because some of the richest people in the United States and the world live in California, doesn’t mean you don’t have poor people there. In fact, there’s third world countries, with the super rich and super impoverished, and hardly anything in between.
I, prior to the last couple of years I was in the military, was a California citizen. I have watched the state self destruct financially for many years of liberal overpaid programs ham stringing the business and employment possibilities while chasing business out of the state at an alarming rate. And the state continues to hammer out non-working budgets based upon feel good programs.
In an article by the LA Times last month:
“Less than four years after declaring California’s budget balanced for the foreseeable future, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday said the state is projected to run a $1.6-billion deficit by next summer — a noticeable shift in the state’s fiscal stability that could worsen under federal spending cuts championed by President-elect Donald Trump.” “The trajectory of revenue growth is declining,” Brown said in unveiling his $179.5-billion plan for the fiscal year that begins in July. The governor’s sober assessment comes on the heels of several months of lagging tax revenue collections, a change in the state’s fortunes that could stifle his fellow Democrats’ call for additional spending and give fuel to Republican demands for additional cuts.
Brown proposed to address the deficit primarily by slowing the growth in spending on public schools by $1.7 billion, a change that brings funding down to the minimum required by formulas enshrined in California’s Constitution. The governor also proposed scrapping $1.5 billion worth of spending ideas left over from last year’s budget negotiations, including higher subsidies for child-care programs and awarding new college scholarships to California students…..”
As you can see, they are having to reverse their great ideas because they just can’t pay for them. And who suffers? Those that voted them in because of those programs. The government of California is infamous for using bait and switch.
When I was transferred (PCS’d) to Washington State in 1993, one of the humorous kickbacks to their way of doing business in the state is that in the previous year, the state was sending out IOU’s on income tax refunds to, they say, random people. When the tax bill for a few of the people involved took that amount out of their state income tax requirement the next year, the state didn’t see the humor in it and ordered those people to pay the entire amount. That IOU is still on the books for those involved. I doubt they will ever see it.
rwood
...and now back to our bongs.