I really would be thrilled if California left the United States. Seriously.
I really would be thrilled if California left the United States. Seriously.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
The problem is all the leftists running away from California (because of leftist policies) and then voting for DEMOCRATS in the states they invade.
California Leads The Nation – In Poverty
The Census Bureau’s annual reports on poverty in America were released on Sept. 15.
The reports provide three salient observations.
First, that the largest reductions in poverty in the past 10 years occurred in 2019, as American employment and wage growth was particularly strong in minority communities in the wake of President Trump’s economy-boosting tax cuts and regulatory reforms.
Second, that California’s persistently high housing costs drive almost 2 million people into poverty, with 17.2% of Californians in poverty, the nation’s highest, compared to 12.5% nationally. For the past 10 years, California has had the nation’s highest poverty rate.
And, third, that Texas, specifically, Austin, is replicating the California policies that have result in out-of-reach housing costs. Texas’ poverty rate was 13.7% in 2019, the nation’s sixth-highest, just behind New York, and has been slowly trending up relative to other states.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2020/09/17/report-shows-big-declines-in-poverty-in-2019-but-california-leads-the-nation--in-poverty--with-austin-texas-trying-hard-to-catch-up/#7ba6c8dc7897
Unfortunately, high taxes and the attendant cost of living are driving millions away from the Beholden State, and a great many are moving to your backyard.
Being leftists (they never learn), these refugees will vote for DEMOCRATS when they get to Colorado and the pattern will repeat itself. Colorado will turn into California by 2030.
Don't take my word for it. It's already happening around the country.
Wrong, facts back me up (https://www.statista.com/chart/9358/...te-and-region/), and I don't have to worry about bullets, I live in a gun restricted State
Fires, blackouts, high taxes, poverty, scarce housing, urban squalor, lousy schools — it’s a wonder anybody stays.
“California, folks, is America fast forward.”
Thus said Governor Gavin Newsom. “What we’re experiencing right here is coming to a community all across the United States of America."
California is “the progressive model of the future: a once-innovative, rich state that is now a civilization in near ruins.
Back in 2007, total state spending was $146 billion. Last year it was $215 billion.
I know, I know: In real terms California’s GDP increased by nearly a third in the same period. And I know: If it were an independent nation it would be the fifth-largest economy in the world, ahead of India’s. But for how much longer will that be true?
California’s taxes aren’t the highest in the country — for the median household. But the tax system is one of the most progressive, with a 13.3% top tax rate on incomes above $1 million — and that’s no longer deductible from the federal tax bill as it used to be. The top 1% of taxpayers (those earning more than $500,000) now account for half of personal income-tax revenue. And there’s worse to come.
The latest brilliant ideas in Sacramento are to raise the top income rate up to 16.8% and to levy a wealth tax (0.4% on personal fortunes over $30 million) that you couldn’t even avoid paying if you left the state. (The proposal envisages payment for up to 10 years after departure to a lower-tax state.) It is a strange place that seeks to repel the rich while making itself a magnet for illegal immigrants by establishing no fewer than 20 “sanctuary” cities or counties.
And the results of all this progressive policy? A poverty boom.
California now has 12% of the nation's population, but over 30% of its welfare recipients.
A new Census Bureau report, which takes housing and other costs into account, says the poverty rate in California is 17.2%, the highest of any state. (Newsom gets one thing right when he says, “We're living in the wealthiest as well as the poorest state in America.”)
About a third of California’s poverty can be attributed to housing and other living costs such as clothing and utilities. As everyone who resides there knows, there’s a chronic housing shortage in the Bay Area (the median-priced home in San Francisco costs about $1.5 million), mainly because a plethora of regulations make the construction of affordable housing well-nigh impossible.
In blithe disregard of all we know about rent controls — which discourage landlords from providing housing — that is, predictably, the solution the DEMOCRATS propose.
But that’s not all. The state’s public schools rank 37th in the country overall and have the highest pupil-teacher ratio.
“Only half of California students meet English standards and fewer meet math standards, test scores show,” was a headline in the Los Angeles Times. Health care and pension costs are unsustainable.
Oh, and they messed up on Covid-19, despite imposing the nation’s first shelter-in-place orders. Having prematurely claimed victory, California now leads New York in terms of cases, though not deaths.
Back in the 1960s, California was the world’s fantasy destination. “California Dreamin’,” “California Girls,” “Going to California” — you know the songs.
But reputations have a way of outliving reality. Despite the economic miracle wrought in Silicon Valley, beginning with the genesis of the internet back in the 1970s, and despite the continuing strength of the state’s universities, the dream in terms of quality of life has slowly died.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-20/california-burnin-a-warning-against-one-party-rule
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