California's Greek Tragedy (sales, college, income)

[Visit a Library]

From the mid-1980s to 2005, California's population grew by 10 million, while Medicaid recipients soared by seven million; tax filers paying income taxes rose by just 150,000[...]

Boskin and Cogan: California's Greek Tragedy - WSJ.com

So only 1.5% of CA's newcomers from 1985 to 2005 pay income taxes, and CA's legislators are complaining about a lack of tax revenue and could not foresee CA turning into a third world country? Seriously? And gee, I wonder where these people who don't pay income taxes are coming from...um...Kentucky?

[DynamoLA]

I guess the good news is everyone pays sales taxes??

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Drown your sorrows with ouzo!

[EscapeCalifornia]

Anyone who's been paying attention for the last 20 years knew this would be the result of who's coming and who's leaving the state. Lets drive off manufacturing and middle class workers and replace them with millions of uneducated, dirt poor people with their hand out. Brilliant!

Your article fits nicely with this one: http://www.ocregister.com/news/latin...education.html

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by bayareahillbilly

drown your sorrows with ouzo!

Opah!!

[mayorhaggar]

Greek tradegy? WTF is this liberal college ivory tower elitist crap?

[sunshine7793]

These numbers are so bad as to be unbelievable - if they didn't come from the Wall Street Journal. During a 25 year period California's population grew by 10,000,000. But the number of taxpayers only grew by 150,000 ??

So what are the other 9,850,000 people who came here doing instead of paying taxes? Living on the dole? Getting paid under the table? The Franchise Tax Board is on my case in a hurry if I fail to make a tax payment on time. But they let 9,850,000 others get away free?

Makes one want to swim to Mexico come back as an illegal in order to start all over again.

[Vascodagama]

Originally Posted by sunshine7793

These numbers are so bad as to be unbelievable - if they didn't come from the Wall Street Journal. During a 25 year period California's population grew by 10,000,000. But the number of taxpayers only grew by 150,000 ??

So what are the other 9,850,000 people who came here doing instead of paying taxes? Living on the dole? Getting paid under the table? The Franchise Tax Board is on my case in a hurry if I fail to make a tax payment on time. But they let 9,850,000 others get away free?

Makes one want to swim to Mexico come back as an illegal in order to start all over again.

Believe it or not, some people are claiming they are illegal aliens when they aren't just to get on special social programs and free education ...

[Vascodagama]

Originally Posted by Visit a Library

Boskin and Cogan: California's Greek Tragedy - WSJ.com

So only 1.5% of CA's newcomers from 1985 to 2005 pay income taxes, and CA's legislators are complaining about a lack of tax revenue and could not foresee CA turning into a third world country? Seriously? And gee, I wonder where these people who don't pay income taxes are coming from...um...Kentucky?

I have never, in my 50+ years, seen such a bad economy period and a bad economy for this long with a worsening future. This is getting bad ...

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Don9

I have never, in my 50+ years, seen such a bad economy period and a bad economy for this long with a worsening future. This is getting bad ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)

So much of this sounds familiar.