Posted on 11/24/2025 7:07:01 AM PST by MtnClimber
Over the weekend, we learned that the Golden State loses one taxpayer to another state every minute, and faces an $18 billion budget shortfall, which is $5 billion higher than was projected just a few months ago.
We also learned that only now, 10 months after wildfires destroyed thousands of buildings in the Los Angeles area, has the first home been rebuilt.
These stories are yet more evidence of a completely dysfunctional state captured by ideologues who couldn’t care less about the harm their policies cause. Will voters there ever learn?
The National Taxpayers Union Foundation used IRS data to calculate how many taxpayers are moving into and out of states each year.
What it found was stunning. California is losing taxpayers at a rate of one every 1 minute 44 seconds – the fastest of any state in the nation. That amounts to billions in lost tax revenue every year.
Florida, in contrast, is gaining taxpayers at a rate of one every 2 minutes 9 seconds.
Meanwhile, California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office just reported that the state faces an $18 billion shortfall next fiscal year, which is $5 billion higher than it projected a few months back and which will likely “grow to about $35 billion annually due to spending growth continuing to outstrip revenue growth.”
The report also cautions that even this outlook is optimistic because the current AI stock bubble is masking the state’s dire fiscal situation. California is ridiculously dependent on capital gains taxes. “With so much enthusiasm surrounding AI, it now appears time to take seriously the notion that the stock market has become overheated,” it warns.
The report calls the state’s budget position “weak,” which has to be the understatement of the year.
Next, we come to the weekend story in the Los Angeles Times to find that “The first home has been rebuilt in the wake of the Palisades Fire.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass calls it “an important moment of hope.”
It is anything but that. As the Times itself notes, the Palisades fire destroyed nearly 7,000 buildings, but 10 months later, only 2,000 building permits have been issued and only 340 projects are under construction.
In Atladena, the site of the other massively destructive wildfire in January that claimed some 6,500 buildings, the first home that managed to get an occupancy permit last week was a garage that had been converted into 640-foot “accessory dwelling unit.”
Meanwhile, more than 70% of the Palisades fire victims still live in temporary housing, as are 67% of the victims of the Altadena fires.
Most of them have little hope of ever returning, or seeing their communities rebuilt.
In a separate report, the Los Angeles Times notes that the five most destructive fires from 2017 to 2020 “burned down 22,500 houses.”
But even now, five to eight years later, “just 8,400 — 38% — have been rebuilt.” And “wealthier, flat, suburban areas have tended to rebuild faster than poorer, hilly, rural areas.”
It’s no wonder so many Californians are calling it quits and moving to states that don’t treat them like serfs.
But questions, which were posed in these pages recently, remain: Why do those who don’t or can’t leave put up with it? Why do they keep electing the same cast of criminals who are stealing their money and ruining their state?
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I personally witnessed mass voter fraud in 2008 and suspected it for decades. Gerrymandering and election cheating led to this.
I know we do not want to believe it but the left got all this power by cheating on elections so I don't blame voters and dont engage in State Bigotry, blaming the residents of a state. CA is at least 50% right wing same as every state
OOps sorry Jim up there in heaven , I mispelled your name it Robinson not robertson
They believe the fix is to go further socialist. They seem to believe the problem is the folks they have now are too MAGAð¤Â
40% of the electorate are Conservative/Republican, but the State Legislation and County Officials are roughly 7%. Some tend to think that there are voting irregularities
they have most people brainwashed to believe elections are fair, and those on the Right have been fooled into beleieving the Republican Party represents them.
Anyone who protested the obvious election cheating in 2020 was arrested and falsely charged with a crime or sued in to submission by shock and awe lawfare which destroyed their lives
Same thing happened with anyone trying to question the COVID scam.
Blaming the voters of CA for the states demise is like blaming me and you for Slavery, it amounts to ignorant bigoty, similar to racism .
Or, phrased differently, “Communists abandon the dystopia they created in order to similarly contaminate Civilized States.”
Sure thing pal, I guess you also believe Biden won fair and square, right?
And they take their politics with them. Look at what happened to Colorado.
I know, I used to live in Colorado and saw it first hand.
Perhaps it’s time to take a census every 5 years and stop counting illegals...
Nevada used to be a free state. Once.
Yes, it appears there is some out migration but not near enough to return the Centennial State back into at least a’purple tint’.
I disagree with the articles assertion that the Dhimmicraps who run California (into the ground) “couldn’t care less about the harm their policies cause.”
They REVREL in it. It’s what they want. The more harm they do, the more people are dependent on them. That moves them closer to their goal of absolute power.
And THAT is what they truly care about.
People’s lives are ruined? Not their problem.
They call it compassion.
BRANDED UNLAWFUL
CANNOT USE THAT
They tried
They vote the same way every election and always expect a different outcome.
Perhaps, but it may happen another way.
Jose’ crosses the border in search of some free stuff.
Jose’ goes to the DMV to get his driver’s license, and is shepherded through the process by a bi-lingual do-gooder.
Jose’ is given a form he cannot read, cannot understand and told to check-mark here (Are you a US Citizen?). Si! Sign here, Jose’.
Jose’ grins as he leaves as he’s got his license.
Behind the scenes, the Democrats have a new mail-in ballot to use in the next election.
Rinse and repeat nationwide...
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