“Who will help me bake the bread?”, asked the Little Red Hen.
Good. State needs to collapse, and be rebuilt from the ground up. Like the Confederacy.
No problem. Just raise taxes.
They will just beg for money from the feds (you and me).
This is one problem that is made worse by immigration. Just leave it alone the demographics will correct themselves.
Plus, the obscene number of taxes and fees and the high cost of living make it hard for people to have a lot of kids.
Most likely, the only people giving birth are cradle to grave welfare recipients.
I guess the politicians in California will be left having to use their own pay since they chased out the working folks with taxes and regs.
Margaret Thatcher
That’s why the left needs to import more illegals
1) it helps dilute and attack “traditional culture” which is a natural political enemy of the Left
2) new customers of the nanny-state
3) a new, dependent and reliable political bloc
Quiet, you’ll awaken the drug-addled Blacks and Hispanics here. Procreating is the one thing that they are really good at. Maybe we can offer their “menfolk” free TV’s and beer to keep their “minds” on “other things!” Or “free” birth control pills for their women, because the men don’t know how to use condoms. They isn’t “manly” doncha know?
If we didn’t have millions of illegals in California, a lot of public schools would be closing. Many school systems in California are laying off teachers and non teachers as the number of children in public schools are falling like rocks.
The only “new” younger people, who can afford to move to maybe stay in California are the illegals, who are untaxed and on all types of welfare and free healthcare.
When one bedroom apartments in the Gay Frisco area are renting for $2500 and up per month, with a deposit of two months rent and a net salary of 2 to 3 X the monthly rental for legals, they can not afford to live here. Small 2 and 3 bedroom homes are renting for 4-6 K per month.
So, non welfare California couples with children are faced with Obama Care costs, high income taxes, high sales taxes and maybe the most expensive gasoline prices in the country. Many are moving to other states like Texas to survive. economically.
Developed world de-emphasizes importance of family, reveres materialistic pleasure, worships the state and celebrity.
The high taxes needed for maintaining a welfare state results in not enough available income for citizens to start and raise a family.
Traditional population of US, EU, Japan is screwed demographicly.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/
They’ll just import more Mexicans.
The liberal solution would be to import more Mexicans and other third worlders, because people are fungible, and a younger population will work and fund the welfare state.
It’s not a good solution, but that’s never stopped them.
I have come up with a novel solution to the problem of shrinking populations. It would also have an impact on social security....
What if we gave people the option of “privatizing” or “ear marking” their social security payments?
What if we allowed people to have the option of either sending 6.2% of their earnings to the government who could then turn around and spend it on a social security recipient OR they could give their 6.2% DIRECTLY to a social security recipient? You could pick your parents or your inlaws or your favorite uncle...who ever you wanted. The catch would be that their SS checks from the government would be cut in half. The 6.2% of everyone’s pay that is contributed by their employers would still be given out to everyone.
Typically, kids work for 20 or even 30 years before their parents retire. During this time, they could be earmarking their payments to their grandparents or great-aunts and uncles.
If an elderly couple had 10 grandchildren who each made $100K per year, that would be $62,00 per year....on top of the 50% SS checks that would be coming from the government.
What would this do to the number of children future couples would have? What would this do to the interest of parents in raising productive, capable adults? I would still leave the public option for people who don’t have children, grandchildren or extended family members who would “ear mark” for them.
I think this would solve a vast number of problems.
California is going to lose their middle class eventually, then all they will have left is the Rich tech giants, and the poor. Sounds like a country we all know about, just south of their border
The Leftists probably will use this as an excuse to import even more Africans, Mexicans and Islamists.
They are using this in most Western nations, the falling birthrate excuse.
Ridiculous.
In CA we are up to our necks in Anchor Babies and Illegal Invader Children.
In Los Mexicos, (Los Angeles for you out of State folks) most of the Public School Chillen (SIC on purpose) are Hispanic and many of them cannot speak English.