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Do Californians Realize How Badly They’re Getting Ripped Off?
Issues & Insights ^ | 31 Oct, 2025 | John Merline

Posted on 11/01/2025 5:36:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 11/01/2025 5:36:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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They get what they voted for.


2 posted on 11/01/2025 5:36:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Preach it brother!!!!


3 posted on 11/01/2025 5:37:53 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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40% of us did not vote for what most characterize as “Californian.”


4 posted on 11/01/2025 5:40:14 AM PDT by avital2
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The way the dnc has elections rigged, probably 70 percent didn’t vote for these corruptoid ripoff artists


5 posted on 11/01/2025 5:44:30 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Hyman Roth

I always thought people would have to shoot their way out of these kind of governments but the voters here just might be addicted to where it’s too late. All these presented facts won’t change anything.

“I could have saved 2,000 if they knew they were slaves.”
-Harriet Tubman, who saved 1,000 slaves.


6 posted on 11/01/2025 5:46:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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—— I will pay California $2,115 more-——

The extra payment is a de facto privilege fee. The whining article author is paying a mandatory tax for the privilege of living in California

Whild dragging out a list of negatives, the positives were not mentioned. When set side by side, the positives were greater than the negatives and the $2,115 fee is thus justified /S


7 posted on 11/01/2025 5:48:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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Well that post right HERE ought to get Californians all filled with GLEE, start a glee club and have Aunt Nancy do a jig. Those reports and numbers make about as much sense as men playing and competing in women’s sports. Karen Bass will smile for sure and copy and paste this report on her FACEBOOK page. Good for you California......


8 posted on 11/01/2025 5:53:26 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: faithhopecharity

of late with ballots floating around, absurdly late counting, it’s hard to know what’s Real and what is Memorex.


9 posted on 11/01/2025 5:54:20 AM PDT by avital2
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Right now, there would be little reason for anyone to want to move to Calif. Now, it USED to be a great place to live, then along came Democrats & other things & ruined that. I don’t live there, although I used to way back when it was good, but I hear enough about it now that I’d be scared to go back even to visit. I do sincerely hope that Californians moving to other states don’t try to change those other states to California ways.


10 posted on 11/01/2025 5:57:58 AM PDT by oldtech
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Y’all are pissing in the wind.
Most all decent, smart, and moral
Californians have left the state.
All that is left is the Dregs.
Dregs being Democrats and
their slaves(tax payers).


11 posted on 11/01/2025 6:00:10 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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Do Californians Realize How Badly They’re Getting Ripped Off?

Not those who are getting everything for free.
12 posted on 11/01/2025 6:03:27 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Profound statement, by Tubman.


13 posted on 11/01/2025 6:06:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: MtnClimber
So, the question I have for every Californian is: “What is wrong with you?

So the question I have for the author, is why are you there?

He freely moved into this shithole of a state and then denigrates every one that is living there.

Screw the author and he should STFU.

14 posted on 11/01/2025 6:07:59 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORIST SAVAGES)
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This is only a fraction of how they stick us. The biggie is energy, and it's a crooked racket in California.

I knew that we were getting ripped off, who was doing it, and why when I wrote that article in 2003, but I did not know the degree quantitatively. In 2010 when our family took the obligatory transnational vacation by car it was easy to see what gasoline cost and how far it would take us. What surprised me was that octane ratings were no indication of mileage. There is so much ethanol in California gas that, by the time one calculates the total cost per mile, we were paying DOUBLE what they were in Texas.

15 posted on 11/01/2025 6:09:51 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MtnClimber

Sub-Mexico Couldn’t care less. As long as they keep getting the free stuff, it all good.


16 posted on 11/01/2025 6:14:19 AM PDT by unread ("A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: MtnClimber

Please: what tell is the reason(s) you moved INTO the abyss of stupidity and treachery?


17 posted on 11/01/2025 6:16:27 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: USS Alaska

“I started thinking about that after I recently changed my residency from Virginia to California (for reasons I won’t go into) and noticed that my state income taxes had gone up by more than 33%.”

He didn’t quite move to California because he wanted to live there. “For reasons I won’t go into” can mean a lot of things.


18 posted on 11/01/2025 6:21:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ( Covfefe! )
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To: rellic

6 million plus Californians voted for Trump - about the average size of many states. they added importantly to national popular vote totals. you over-generalize. it’s wrong to do so.


19 posted on 11/01/2025 6:27:37 AM PDT by avital2
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To: MtnClimber

Somebody has to pay for all that free stuff.


20 posted on 11/01/2025 6:31:52 AM PDT by econjack
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