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- My wife and I lived in California for several years. We are both professionals (engineers, actually) and made quite good money. However, when we left, we were paying well over $1000/month in state income taxes and $8000/year in property taxes. For this, we had a small house in the bay area. We sold this house two years ago (thankfully, before the crash) and moved to Texas. We pay no income taxes, have a much nicer home, and enjoy a much cheaper cost of living (low gasoline, food prices, etc.).
The fact of the matter is that the middle class in California is getting squeezed. The state, every year is in a fiscal emergency and every year it just squeezes a little harder. It isn''t my problem to fund every liberal do-gooder program, to solve global warming, and make life fair. I just want to get by, pay my bills, and put my kids through college. That is way easier to do in Texas. So, the middle and upper middle class is being incentized to leave California.
Who is John Galt? - Reply to this comment
- I doubt if public assistance was the cause of any of this but since you have to blame, let''s blame it on those who receive public assistance. Some of you would never take the blame for anything because if you''re white your right. What about the housing market in Calif, a big bubble burst, talk about the governor being an actor first not a politician, do you really think he knew what the hell he was doing? He''s the Terminator and he is doing a good job of terminating CA. The people of CA voted for him and you got what you wanted- a republican governor who has brought CA to it knees. The blame can only be placed on the shoulders of those who run the state, not the people in it.
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- This whole time I was beginning to think that I was the only one thinking that California is turning into one giant waste of land.
I mean, how can I be earning an income of 86,000 a year, get married, have two children and by the time they are preschool aged and I am ready to go back to work, not only are there NO jobs here in SoCal, but I can''t even get one paying minimum wage and let''s not even bring up the fact that more than half of the jobs that are listed are REQUIRING that the applicant be bilingual English/Spanish. What the hell is that?
Can you please tell me why everyone here shouldn''t at the least learn to speak English to be a citizen?
My point, everyone has fought so hard for minority rights and no discrimination for the Spanish speaking, well shouldn''t we have the same rights? Why can I not get a job because I only speak English? Isn''t that the same thing? Oh, and by the way do you know how much I paid in taxes to California as a single woman making 86,000.00 a year. But now when I need work I can''t get any until I become bilingual.
Trust me, the first chance I see, or job I find that is as far away from California as I can get, I will be on the first plane out of here. How does Arnold say it "Hasta la vista, baby". - Reply to this comment
- No mas free medical care for illegals.
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- After a year or so of this, there will be nothing to redistribute, so we will all be broke.
Hurray, hurray, hurray!!!
Posted by Platteman at 09:19 PM : Jan 04, 2009
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Too late, we''re already broke before Obama can take the oath.
Over $60 TRILLION in deregulated derivatives, much less over $8 TRILLION borrowed for bailouts that included million dollar bonuses to management. - Reply to this comment
- What does any state in the US expect when they continue to hand out public assistance like candy, as if it''''s anyone''''s RIGHT in this country to be taken care of contributing little back to society. They pay little in taxes to their states and then the states wonder why they are broke. Hello???
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where are your facts?? come on, state them. - Reply to this comment
- Remember, as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation, eventually. I think we should withhold the visceral remarks until we see how our own states fare in the next 2 years or more.
The $8.5 TRILLION used so far should shore up individual bank accounts and states/municipal budgets instead of private institutions. Did you hear how they don''t have a clue on how the banks are using the billions of bailout money?
Top ten states for unemployment: MICHIGAN (9.6%), RHODE ISLAND (9.3%), CALIFORNIA (8.4%), SOUTH CAROLINA (8.4%), OREGON (8.1%, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (8%), NEVADA (8%), NORTH CAROLINA (7.9%), GEORGIA (7.5%), ALASKA (7.3%). - Reply to this comment
- LET CALIFORNIA FAIL!!!!
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- Yeah. We''re out of money in CA. And that is why we approved the billion-dollar bullet train bill 2 months ago, right? Gotta have that bullet train!!!
California liberals, all idiots who think money grows on avocado trees and grapevines. - Reply to this comment
- Most companies in the financial position that California are in would lay of at least 10% across the board.
I''m sure California, like any other state (read: self serving entity) will demand tax increases must pass or libraries will close, garbage collection will be halted and old ladies will be thrown out on the streets.
At what point will the people get back control of their government (that would be a government that does the bidding of the people instead of what the government wants)? - Reply to this comment
