I grew up in California although I left six years ago (exactly today in fact). I remember in high school paying the state a few hundred dollars a year for the "privlege" of living/working there. This was while I was in high school- you know when I was making minimum wage for 16 hours a week nine months out of the year. I couldn't have topped but a couple a thousand a year!! They seemed to take almost as much as the Feds.
I remember the year they couldn't cover all the checks they had written out for tax returns . If I remember right there were some banks taht wouldn't even take the checks cause they didn't trust the state to pay up. Funny- they had the money when it was origianny confiscated out of our checks but when ti was time to pay it back it wasn't there.
My mother lives in one hellhole of a neighborhood. A house down the street just sold for half a million!! You couldn't pay me to live in that nieghborhood again- but somebody else just dropped a pretty good chunk of change.
Now imagine the property taxes on a half a million dollar house. And then when you realize that that is in a sh.tty nieghborhhod- my goodness it just blows my mind!! Don't forget the state income taxes on the guy who can afford that half a million dollar house.
And the da*n Dems need MORE money????????
I wish California weather was anywhere else- its the only thing I miss!!
As it is, we pay around 9% on the last dollar earned, plus some of the highest sales taxes in the nation. This state is gouging the hell out of people, yet they keep voting for Democrats. I'll never understand the mindseet behind that.