Posted on 04/13/2013 5:44:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
While Governor Jerry Brown is in China touting the state’s rebound and recovery, many Californians are busy packing their bags for a move to Texas, Nevada or Arizona. Why? Because it appears that the once-Golden State may finally be overpriced, underperforming and ungovernable.
Is it possible that one state has managed to top every 50-state category on the following shameful list?
Highest taxes (gasoline, sales and top bracket of income taxes)
Lowest bond rating
Highest poverty rate (at 23.5%, the home of 1/3 of those in poverty in U.S.)
Highest unemployment rate (tied with Mississippi and Nevada at 9.6%)
Highest energy costs
Worst state to do business (as judged by Chief Executive magazine 8 years running)
Most cities going bankrupt
Prison system so poorly run it has been taken over by a federal judge
And California has managed to do this during its rebound, its good years, according to Jerry Brown who, if not Governor Moonbeam in his second coming as the state’s leader, is clearly not in touch with life on Planet California.
Although there is argument about this, there shouldn’t be: people are leaving the state. The data shows that there has been a net out-migration from California to other states since 1990, balanced for awhile by immigration from other countries.
But by 2005 that had eroded, too, with birth rates in the state also dropping at an incredible rate. Over the past two decades, a net 3.4 million people have left the state. And this is before the 2013 increase in income tax rates which prompted even liberal TV talker Bill Maher to complain that “it’s outrageous what we (millionaires) are paying” in taxes, “over 50%,” warning “liberals, you could actually lose me.”
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Don't forget the exclusive CALGOP Country Club. All the perks and none of the responsibility.
I hope the lefty Californians go to New York...ONLY to New York. Stray away from everywhere else.
Immigration, legal and illegal, has killed CA. It is the canary in the coal mine. By 2050 the demographics of the US will be like CA today. CA is our future.
-— The state of New York is heavily advertising about the wonderful advantages of moving businesses there. ——
How can anyone smart enough to launch and build a profitable company buy this BS, unless he’s getting some kind of tax break?
Can anyone explain that?
How about a new state law, in Texas and other places, that new residents from other states are not allowed to vote for the first 5 years upon arrival?
Otherwise, these newly arrived Californians will spread their “liberal disease” at the polls, ruining everything. They voted for idiots, which is what got them into the mess California faces, but what will stop them from voting for more idiots?
The GOPe only has to herd 5 billionaires to build a consensus, four years before the election.
The Tea Party is dispersed among the people. We have to herd our own 40 million cats. Much more difficult task. We could have coalesced behind Sarah last time. It was a rare opportunity, which is what makes her decision so tragic.
We have a chance with Cruz this time, but we’re split between 3 or 4 candidates now.
Why am I still here?
Its Democrats firmly believe their policies created the ribbon, when they actually created the Third World country surrounding it.
California's wealth (and its refusal to defend that wealth) has attracted every sort of looter imaginable. This allows it to serve a a kind of a high-tech flypaper for the nation - attracting undesirables that would otherwise be plaguing and damaging their home states.
California also attracts the best and brightest young people from the US and abroad - but it is only going to keep the few that can become successful enough to thrive in its surprisingly Darwinian industries. The politicians miss that last part, apparently not realizing at some point their state's "cool factor" isn't enough to make young $90K/year engineers buy run-down $900K houses in San Jose and settle in California for the long, tax-paying haul, when they can move to Austin, make the same money, and get much nicer houses for $250K.
California's problems may be fixable, but it will take a Reaganesque figure to turn the tide.
America is the world's bargain basment.
I saw that ad. Everything I’ve seen about New York doesn’t seem business friendly. What are they offering? Tax breaks then when the business get settled in, raise taxes and fees?
The unions and environmentalists have perfected the art of advertising and pushing their agendas to the uninformed voters.
“How about a new state law, in Texas and other places, that new residents from other states are not allowed to vote for the first 5 years upon arrival?
Otherwise, these newly arrived Californians will spread their “liberal disease” at the polls, ruining everything. They voted for idiots, which is what got them into the mess California faces, but what will stop them from voting for more idiots?”
So true. I fled Oregon to come to Texas. I’m scared to death the “liberal disease” will infect my beloved Texas. Heaven help us......
I cry b*S* to you and the gov't of California; I have voted NO and the majority of everyone I know has voted NO on every bond issue, tax hike, and fee put before us. I strongly suspect the elections are rigged in multiple-choice ways; whatever it takes to get the bond issue through. Certainly the legislature VOTED to put those issues on the public ballot anyways, so it's coming from the kleptocrats no matter how you slice it.
The electronic voting system (supposedly to address disabled voters), the vote-by-mail system - they all have demonstrable flaws which the elections officials have never addressed. ALL of the electronic voting systems in use or proposed for use were hacked by a team of researchers tasked with testing them out; but the POS SOS accepted the systems anyway!
GRRRRRRR!!!!!
Ditto, I passed through there in 1962, having returned from military service in South Korea. I thought it was an unbelievably beautiful state and prosperous as could be.
I’m witchoo.
Living in Virginia, I have long noticed the political climate changing as New Yorkers and other Yankees increasingly infest northern Virginia. Makes me very worried.
Government here in Illinois is trying hard to catch up. Mark my words California, some day we will be #1.
I bet we have more former gov. officials in jail than you do right now.
I gave it up after McCain and wish I had done it sooner.
MSTS ship.
General W. A. Mann.
We made six crossings 1951-1961.
E: How can anyone smart enough to launch and build a profitable company buy this BS, unless he’s getting some kind of tax break?
The Tonight Show (hosted for many years in CA by Jay Leno ), is MOVING TO NY ( to be hosted by Jimmy Fallon ).
And yes, there’s a tax break for NBC for moving to NY.
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