[blam]

Rush was just talking about this subject and how California could begin demanding an EXIT tax to leave the state.

You can leave but you can never 'check-out.'

[The Duke]

... however, my friend says these 700,000 have been replaced by an equal amount of uncounted “illegals,” as he put it."

So, replacing 700,000 makers with 700,000 takers. What could go wrong there? :O

[cicero2k]

That same 53 year old cop then marries a 35 yo woman who lives to 85. So the tax payer pays a cop salary for half a century, for no benefit in terms of law and order.

[oldbrowser]

Since 2005 the Golden State has shelled out $1.4 billion for unused vacation and other paid time off.

It might actually be cheaper to let the employees accumulate paid time off than to hire replacements, or pay off accumulated time off at each year end. I believe California has ruled that paid time off is part of the employees earnings and the state cannot just write it off.

If they postpone it until the employee retires they are paying with money that has lost value and it was a loan for which the state did not have to pay interest.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

California wasn’t always so horrible. It used to be a thriving and fun place——even L.A.——back when.....

Reagan was governor.

Yorty was mayor.

Parker then Gates were the police chiefs.

And get this: B-1 Bob Dornan was actually congressman representing LA’s westside before moving down to Orange County.

Now those were the days!

[Azeem]

California tried to hit us for a property tax bill a month after we moved to Indiana. We ignored it.

Good luck on them getting the exit tax to work (with US citizens in other states). ‘Taxation without representation’ does have a nice ring. Where have I heard that before?

[ridesthemiles]

For anyone who is ready to leave California, and has horses or wishes to have them:

I have a 5.58 acre place all set up for 12 horses in separate locations for sale. N Nevada high desert. 35 miles to Carson City. 50 miles to Reno.

This is NOT a foreclosure—I own it.

I have a family member with health issues and I need to be closer to him.

[WashingtonSource]

The whole state of California has become a roach motel. You enter and die. You can never leave.

[ScottinVA]

SOOOOOO glad I left there in ‘76 to join the Air Force.. before California began to die in the chokehold of liberalism.

[nascarnation]

It must be heaven on earth to live in a state so prosperous that it can pay 11,000 employees of the state prison system over $100,000 per year and 900 employees over $200,000.