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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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To: hal ogen

Here is my guess why he moved to CA.

I think he inherited a house in CA and the overall numbers workout for a move to CA. He is a writer so it is likely he can work from home as a Heritage Foundation employee or consultant. He sells his Virginia house so he has some extra walking around money.


21 posted on 11/01/2025 7:03:07 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Umm try this out for an explanation.

Let’s pretend you live in gaza. 70% of your neighbors repeatedly vote hamas into power and cheer how they (hamas) are gonna get rid of the Jews. When they go for it, those same neighbors cheer them on — kinda like they did when the TwinTowers were destroyed.

You cannot afford to move. And, if you talk about making a change getting a nasty look is nothing compared to the reality of what will happen to you and your family.

CaCaLand is like that. Has been for decades. It has been a communist state for this time. This is what the rest of you will experience when Newscum is installed into the WHouse.


22 posted on 11/01/2025 7:03:32 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

Full stop.


23 posted on 11/01/2025 7:15:54 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: MtnClimber
"Do Californians Realize How Badly They’re Getting Ripped Off?"

Yes! They love it!

That's why they keep voting for Democrat con-artists!

That's why they vote for Democrat con-artists (redundant phrase) when they move out of California!

24 posted on 11/01/2025 7:20:33 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Break free from the temptations and shackles of this world." Erika Kirk, September 21, 2025)
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To: MtnClimber

Californians must pay for Rent a Mobs to keep all the protests going about something it ain’t cheap.

Two main events in California protests and marathons.


25 posted on 11/01/2025 7:28:02 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

Yeah, yeah. yeah - we’ve heard this all before. The people in California like this stuff, because they keep voting for it.


26 posted on 11/01/2025 7:35:00 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m beginning to think that they don’t know any better so they just kick back and let it happen to them.


27 posted on 11/01/2025 7:36:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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To: MtnClimber
Gov. Gavin Newsom spent $37 billion to fight homelessness only to see the number of homeless climb from 151,000 in 2019 to about 187,000 today—prompting a federal criminal investigation.

There needs to be much more of this. If CEOs are held criminally liable for the integrity of their companies’ books, then governors and other officials should be as well.

28 posted on 11/01/2025 7:55:03 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: MtnClimber

The best thing for California (and the rest of America) is for a gigantic earthquake to devour it into the ocean. I am hoping the big one comes soon and takes all of Mexico with it. /spit


29 posted on 11/01/2025 7:59:32 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: avital2
40% of us did not vote for what most characterize as “Californian.”

As far as you know.

The Dems and their Media stooges just TELL you guys those are the numbers.

"It's Not Who Votes That Counts, It's Who Counts The Votes"

30 posted on 11/01/2025 8:07:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MtnClimber

As a fellow Coloradoan, I am sure you notice the blue devils are doing everything they can to make Colorado as expensive in terms of property taxes and utilities as California.


31 posted on 11/01/2025 8:27:43 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: MtnClimber

Doesn’t the nation as a whole pick up the tab for his California income taxes?


32 posted on 11/01/2025 8:35:52 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

I used to be a Coloradoan. I escaped to Florida.


33 posted on 11/01/2025 8:40:35 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

the answer is The Argentinian Syndrome: “Argentina would be a paradise if it wasn’t for all the Argentinians.” ...


34 posted on 11/01/2025 8:52:02 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: EQAndyBuzz
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.

There is nothing that would ever get me to move to California. Both my wife and I have immediate family who live there and even that isn't enough for me to move there or my wife to move back to where she was born and raised.

35 posted on 11/01/2025 8:54:23 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Carry_Okie

The trick to living in California is to not produce anything.


36 posted on 11/01/2025 8:55:05 AM PDT by jcon40 (Leftists are usually obnoxious Bullies)
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To: oldtech

“I do sincerely hope that Californians moving to other states don’t try to change those other states to California ways.”

Sadly they do! They’ve Californicated Oregon, Washington, Colorado and the latest ones are Arizona and Nevada.


37 posted on 11/01/2025 8:55:21 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

IF HE CAN EASILY LEAVE-—DO SO. QUIT PUNISHING YOURSELF.

AFTER 29 YEARS IN SO CAL & OVER 12 IN N CALIF-—I BOLTED.

NOW HAVE OVER 5+++ ACRES-—quiet-—PROP TAXES OF $1025 & POWER BILLS AROUND $90 A MONTH. HOUSE/GARAGE/HORSES....

CLEAN AIR-—4 SEASONS -—NOT A HARSH WINTER-—

GOOD DEPUTIES-—CAN BUY GUNS A& AMMO ALL OVER. GOOD NEIGHBORS...

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO DEAL WITH NEWSOM.


38 posted on 11/01/2025 9:28:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: jcon40
The trick to living in California is to not produce anything.

Our family has been here five generations, quite productively thank you.

39 posted on 11/01/2025 9:32:04 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: EVO X

HE CAN SELL AGAIN & GET ANOTHER CAPITAL GAINS EXEMPTION

$500,000 if MARRIED

$250,000 IF SINGLE

IF LIVED IN CURRENT PROPERTY 2 YEARS & 1 DAY MINIMUM....


40 posted on 11/01/2025 9:33:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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