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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
“Surf’s up!” And “Serfs out!”
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Genius.
The voters of California (and most other places) are ignorant sheep. They see something like "School Reform Bond" on the ballot and they think "Oh good, we're going to improve education. We sure need to do that." Disregard the fact that the the bonds in question may be written so that 70% of the money raised goes toward the construction of gay, lesbian, transgender education centers. Throw in a stirring editorial or two in the LA Times or San Francisco Chronicle and the initiative passes with an 80%/20% margin.
Get out now. Let them drown in their own mess.
I continue to ask the same about the Newt supporters. When it became clear that he couldn’t win - that was the sign to switch to Santorum.
If the Newt supporters had switched when Santorum beat Newt in NH and in Iowa he could have won South Carolina, and the race would have been very different.
If the Newt supporters had switched after Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri showed that Newt would never win another state - Santorum still could have won.
If the Newt supporters had switched anytime prior to Michigna, Santorum could have defeated Romney. But they did not - they stuck to Newt and ensured Romney and the subsequent defeat to Obama.
Find a job, contribute to our society and JOIN it. It doesn't need changing so leave your Liberal BS ideas, PC BS, Eco-BS, and Diversity BS in Califoristan.
If you're not smart enough to know what F'd CA up like a soup sandwich then you belong there, not in Texas.
My favorite haunts around Haymarket, Warrenton, and Leesburg became more like New York and New Jersey. Charlottesville is just one never ending traffic snarl, and all the Yankee transplants in Fredericksburg had me screaming out the car window “Go back to New York!” And, with Terry McAuliffe getting Soros money and fund raising in New York, he just might be the next Governor. It just was not the Virginia I grew up in. It broke my heart.
I know what you mean. I’ve been a Virginia resident since 1967 and am getting weary of what’s happening. Someday I can see myself moving back to my home state of Alabama. I seriously doubt that many Yanks will move there.
I go back there from time to time and enjoy listening to true Southern speech, which I rarely hear in Virginia.
“Word is it’s out of state investors driving it.”
It’s out of country investors purchasing houses for cash.
Are there any stats yet on how many Californians have left ..??
SOURCE:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/big-texas-welcome-to-californians.html
EXCERPT:
According to Internal Revenue Service data, net migration from California to other states totaled 865,444 people from 2004 to 2010, the highest in the nation.
Think of it this way: The equivalent of the entire city of San Francisco packed up and left California in six years — and that’s with taxes lower than they will be under Proposition 30.
Where are the Californians going? For the most part, it’s to states with lower individual income taxes. Texas, a state with no income tax, leads as a destination, with a net inflow from California of 185,122 people from 2004 to 2010, the IRS data say. Next come Arizona (top income-tax rate of 4.5 percent), Nevada (no income tax), Oregon (11 percent) and Washington (no income tax). In the top 15 destination states for ex-Californians, the migration-weighted average of the highest marginal tax rate was just 3.9 percent.
CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST...
Next question — who are remaining and replacing those leaving?
See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2894438/posts
CALIFORNIA HAS ONE THIRD OF AMERICA’s WELFARE RECIPIENTS
Thanks for the info
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