Our total California tax load is easily double what it was when I moved here in 1973. Yet everything is much, much worse in the intervening 40 years. Clearly we need to double our taxes again to fix everything up.
"If Prop. 30 fails, we're talking about a bloodbath," said Supt. Dale Marsden of the San Bernardino City Unified School District."
It is almost amusing as you get older to have learned that every single election of your life until the day you die, after voting for 70 years, will include ballot or bond issues to save the schools from collapsing on the children and killing them.
In between elections you will learn about the ever growing wages and pensions and benefits and tenure, and ratio of administration to teachers, and lowering of standards and of illiterate graduates, but the desperate pleas for tax increases to paint the schools and fix the roofs, will still be there in every election.
You forget: the cure for liberalism's failures is always more liberalism.
It's time to saw California off and let it float around the Horn to Argentina. La Presidenta will think of something to do with it!
California has always seemed to be a high priced place ~ and now they are preparing to make it the highest priced place in the country.