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That's just conservative theory proven wrong by 100 years of History.
Tx does well because they were beneficaries iof the oil war (and by Texas, we mean the Dubya crowd, not the poor Texican killed in Falujah), and because they export their unemployed to other states.
Are you serious? How can someone with access to a computer be so ignorant and naive.
california is still having trouble with the budget, even after saying that they had the solution yesterday:
(07-16) 04:00 PDT Sacramento - -- Budget negotiations between the governor and legislative leaders stalled late Wednesday night over the question of whether schools should receive billions of dollars to make up for deep cuts over the past two fiscal years, Democratic lawmakers said.Despite the disagreement, lawmakers plan to return to the negotiating table today. "It's not a complete breakdown," said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.
With the state facing a $26.3 billion shortfall, school spending is expected to face billions of dollars in reductions, and Democratic lawmakers are arguing to have $11 billion in funding repaid in future years.
But Republican lawmakers argued they should focus on solving the current deficit rather than future spending.
"What we're focused on is this year's budget," said Assembly GOP leader Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo.
it looks like liberal democrats are still trying to spend money they don't have!
How are wages in Walmartistan compared to California? Housing values? Even with all that oil the economy is smaller. I've actually lived in both, there is no comparison
Walmartistan? Are you insane?
The reason our economy is smaller is largely because we have 13 million less people.
Something you likely don't know - TX has more Fortune 500 companies than any other state - yes, including California.
In fact, the worst three are red states: West Virginia, Louisiana, and (Palin's) Alaska.
Texas is a much more similar state to CA. Comparing CA to any of the 3 states you mentioned doesn't make any sense.
If Alaska, West Virginia, and Louisiana had the same legislature CA does, you can be assured they would be much worse places to do business than they already are.
Yes, but federal law says that hospitals may not refuse emergency treatment for anybody, regardless of citizenship status. I don't believe that passing a state law in California would override that.
And that's why my city is loosing it's last ER... No more Emergency Facilities takes away the question of refusal to treat emergencies,
Private Hospitals are expanding in the suburbs and closing in the cities because more patients in the cities are uninsured.
Don't bother, I lived in both states as well, he is talking out of his nether regions. If we got down to the dirty facts of the states, he would sit there drooling like an idiot trying to defend California.
The main reason that California has so much trouble raising revenue is because Howard Jarvis's (who is an extreme conservative even by Texas standards) prop 13 made it so that the government could only increase the property taxes of people that bought their home before 1978 by something like 1% per year and it created a rule that in order to pass a bill that raises revenue for the government, you need a 2/3rds vote in the Senate and Assembly. Therefore a small minority of right-wing Republican lawmakers are able to block any tax increase, or any other revenue raising bill for that matter, from passing.
First, Prop 13 allows for automatic 2% yearly increases... not 1%
Second, School Construction requires 55% approval and not 2/3
What's wrong with the electorate reining in Spending? If the people wanted higher taxes the last election would have had different results.
Prop 13 is the last vestige voters have to even have a prayer of reining in Sacramento...
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