The Wheels Are Coming Off California's Ballyhooed Comeback

IBD ^ | 08/19/2014

[thesharkboy]

I left the “Golden State” early this year for a state that doesn’t view me so much as a source of income/fees/fines, at the same time abusing me for not being Mexican and for being “wealthy.” If it were possible to moon an entire state, I would have done it when I crossed the border into Arizona.

[BigEdLB]

ZOMBIES! TO THE POLLS!


Re-Elect Brown...Re-Elect Brown...

[Rusty0604]

They just need another facebook ipo.

[SkyDancer]

They’ll just keep raising taxes and also find more things to tax. You water we tax, you don’t water we tax. Oh and the sunshine tax and you name it ...

[colorado tanker]

Another tax increase fails to produce the predicted revenue.

[DannyTN]

Well he’s already said his son would look like Travon.
So all he’s got left is...
“If I had a daghter she would look like Michael Brown.”

I can see why he’s staying low.

[4Liberty]

[SeekAndFind]

Is he thinking of having a trans-gendered child too?

I mean, just to be fair and equal to all right?

[Wuli]

Typical of these schemes, they got a one time boost, but the long run will be less net revenue per capita, with a higher tax rate and a smaller demographic of the population paying the lions share of the taxes, until some of them leave, revenue is even further down, taxes are raised again and the cycle starts all over.

[The Duke]

I'm actually considering moving *to* California this year, but in my case it's just to be a social parasite until the US might decide to go capitalist again.

Gotta work on my Spanish, though. :O

[Parley Baer]

I saw a post on another forum where Kalifornia is looking to raise the gasoline tax once again. They already have one of the highest gas taxes in the nation.

[morphing libertarian]

Ca. $14 bill a year in services to people in the country illegally.

[drypowder]

welfare recipients and illegal immigrants as a rule do not pay taxes. Therefore it is a no brainer that California is in deep financial dodo. On another note: Jerry Brown considering running for president; on his loser record?

[Organic Panic]

A 50,000,000,000 high speed train to Bakersfield will fix everything. Shut off Central Valley water to save a fish and import millions of illegals to the welfare rolls and the problems just fix themselves.

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[kingu]

A 50,000,000,000 high speed train to Bakersfield will fix everything.

I'm sorry, the latest estimates put it closer to 150,000,000,000, with an additional 50,000,000,000 to dig a tunnel under the mountains to link Grand Central Station in Los Angeles with the high speed rail. What's that? $525 for every soul living in California? Ahh, gotta love government overspending.

[Publius]

...to link Grand Central Station in Los Angeles...

Union Station in Los Angeles, There is a Grand Central Farmers' Market in downtown L.A., but no Grand Central Station. That's in New York.

[jcon40]

Be sure to check El Dorado County

where gold discovered

Hangtown (Placeville) and South Lake Tahoe

Awesome place to live

real estate prices not bad

you wont need Spanish

Very conservative area

[Amagi]

California is an advanced socialist state on an express route to self-destruction.
Any economic claims otherwise will prove to be lies and deception.
As a non-Californian I will greatly resent any financial burdon on me to bail these morons out.