California Tax Revenue Plunges 22% (Sacramento, Alameda: sales, sales tax, exodus)

[Dan3450]

More taxes will solve everything

[cobmw]

No response from the ususal excuse makers? Then I'll play liberal mush-head and answer for them:

1. It's not California's fault. The entire nation has been struggling.
2. Give Brown more time. He inherited a big mess from Arnie.
3. No one is leaving CA. Look at the lines at Starbucks.
4. California has the world's 7th largest economy. Everything will work itself out in time.
5. Even when CA is broke it will still have better weather than anywhere else. Especially Texas.
6. Taxes are deductible. So they don't cost anything anyway.
7. Businesses so greedy as to complain about paying their fair share aren't wanted here anyway.
8. The source for this article is tainted. Just like all other critical sources.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by cobmw

No response from the ususal excuse makers? Then I'll play liberal mush-head and answer for them:

1. It's not California's fault. The entire nation has been struggling.
2. Give Brown more time. He inherited a big mess from Arnie.
3. No one is leaving CA. Look at the lines at Starbucks.
4. California has the world's 7th largest economy. Everything will work itself out in time.
5. Even when CA is broke it will still have better weather than anywhere else. Especially Texas.
6. Taxes are deductible. So they don't cost anything anyway.
7. Businesses so greedy as to complain about paying their fair share aren't wanted here anyway.
8. The source for this article is tainted. Just like all other critical sources.

Wow, you're good.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by cobmw

No response from the ususal excuse makers? Then I'll play liberal mush-head and answer for them:

1. It's not California's fault. The entire nation has been struggling.
2. Give Brown more time. He inherited a big mess from Arnie.
3. No one is leaving CA. Look at the lines at Starbucks.
4. California has the world's 7th largest economy. Everything will work itself out in time.
5. Even when CA is broke it will still have better weather than anywhere else. Especially Texas.
6. Taxes are deductible. So they don't cost anything anyway.
7. Businesses so greedy as to complain about paying their fair share aren't wanted here anyway.
8. The source for this article is tainted. Just like all other critical sources.

You forgot:

The illegals are a net plus. If we could just add more illegals it would require more housing, which is adding jobs. Plus their kids and relatives vote.

[user_id]

The fact that this is being taken seriously......says a lot.

[Bulldogdad]

Here's another...

California's burgeoning green industry and companies like Solyndra will get us out of this mess.....




uh nothing to see here.....

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by user_id

The fact that this is being taken seriously......says a lot.

The fact that many Californians have their heads in the sand says a lot.

[BlackShoe]

Originally Posted by cobmw

No response from the ususal excuse makers? Then I'll play liberal mush-head and answer for them:

1. It's not California's fault. The entire nation has been struggling.
2. Give Brown more time. He inherited a big mess from Arnie.
3. No one is leaving CA. Look at the lines at Starbucks.
4. California has the world's 7th largest economy. Everything will work itself out in time.
5. Even when CA is broke it will still have better weather than anywhere else. Especially Texas.
6. Taxes are deductible. So they don't cost anything anyway.
7. Businesses so greedy as to complain about paying their fair share aren't wanted here anyway.
8. The source for this article is tainted. Just like all other critical sources.

9. If things get too bad the Federal Government will bail us out.
10. Deficet spending does not matter because we just owe the money to ourselves.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

According to the Sacramento Bee, about 1/3 of taxpayers earning $500,000 per year or more have moved out of California during 2007-2010.

Please provide a link for this claim as it appears I need to shoot a fact check email to the Sacramento Bee.

What's happened is the number of affluent households in that time period shrank due to people losing their jobs, even in that income bracket.

And it has NOT declined by a third. More like 5%.

As far as moving out of state, we know that the number of people moving has shrank significantly in the past 5 years.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Please provide a link for this claim as it appears I need to shoot a fact check email to the Sacramento Bee.

What's happened is the number of affluent households in that time period shrank due to people losing their jobs, even in that income bracket.

And it has NOT declined by a third. More like 5%.

As far as moving out of state, we know that the number of people moving has shrank significantly in the past 5 years.

And yours?