newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:28 pm No confusion. Poor state policy.

Housing prices through the roof due to Silicon Valley and overseas buyers. Ordinary workecannot afford housing. State don’t want to build low cost housing. Low cost housing always depresses property values. The projects attract gangs and drugs. No billionaire wants to live next to that.

Plus the generous tax payer paid California benefits. Even the homeless can shower at any public library.

Jobs can be strangled by high taxes and excessive regulation.

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:51 am
A huge amount is real estate. Generated by high housing prices. Followed by services and the government. Government is funded through high taxes. Average mom and pop business generate much less.

Major cities in California have gone bankrupt due to giving out too many services and too few people left to tax for it.

And while it’s true that the income tax rate might be comparable to other states, the prices for gas and other staples is much, much higher. There are many other taxes and regulations baked into the price.

Texas has no income tax. Texas law forbids cities, towns, and municipalities from charging their own income tax. Extra taxes must be publicly voted on, and not just simply decided by the local government.

California can never leave, unfortunately. The water it uses to feed it’s agriculture and people comes from other states, for starters. Gavin Newsome is known as the ‘Philosopher King’ there. He imparts the wisdom of growing big government as an example that should the followed around the world, with the rest of the US first, I’d course.

My personal opinions, of course.

oldfatbarang wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 3:47 am I agree with John Bingham,California should declare independence.I don't think of California liberals as Americans.Californians want to change America to be what ever it is that they are.I do not believe that most Americans want to convince black people that republicans are racist so they should be democrats.I think that tactic is failing as more and more black Americans are leaving the democrat party to join the republican party and the republicans are welcoming them.I also do not believe that most Americans want to create a new gender or convince a child who is too young to understands about sex that they are a different sex than the one that they were born with.Florida teachers are not allowed to play those games.Only a teacher in California would even dream up that nonsense.I really do wish that6 California would secede.Let them be wealthy and prosper.I don't wish any hardship on the people there but I sure do not want to associate with them and do not want them to try and push their creepy ideas on me.