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Old 01-29-2011, 02:16 AM
 
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Can someone explain to me how on earth CA is in such bad shape fiscally. I honestly just don't get it! We have the largest population by far, so that equates to the largest intake of taxes. We also have close to the highest if not in fact the highest income, property and sales tax combined. Our schools are out of control in regards to overpopulation, the government is continually cutting the education budget along with every other budget out there. When I look at how much tax our family alone pays every year I really wonder where all that money is going. I mean we can't even buy soda or bottled water without paying tax on top of another tax (crv). I absolutely love CA but just don't get how we're in such bad shape, are our politicians mentally challenged?

Can anyone please explain this?
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Old 01-29-2011, 03:58 AM
 
Location: Columbia, California
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Too much spending without watching the check book. We all learned how to do this young, the government is just realizing they need to do this.
Too many free programs like health care for illegals.
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Old 01-29-2011, 05:07 AM
 
Location: Torrance, CA
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Maintaining all those roads, paying insane pensions for ex public staff (teachers, policemen etc etc). The current $88 billion is nothing! Look at Germany: we have about the double population and are also supposed to have the highest taxes in Europe. The total debt is about €1.8 trillion (ab. $2.5 trillion).

This leaves Germany with some $31,000 per citizen and California with $2,300 per inhabitant or in other words, more than 13 times as much... Always look on the bright side of life :-)
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Old 01-29-2011, 08:34 AM
 
Location: SCW, AZ
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... Always look on the bright side of life :-)
Beautiful philosophy!

Then again, it could be the sole reason why rich, corrupt people and governments are getting more corrupt and richer while the debt and poverty grow bigger? Perhaps a major change is overdue? Perhaps a change in this corrupt and defunct system and society is impossible because we ALL are a part of it as a collective. So, we will have to ride it out till sh.t hits the fan, WWIII, then we are back to Stone Age. A fresh start!

Perhaps, we should take the blue pill and keep looking at things on the bright side...
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Old 01-29-2011, 08:37 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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Can someone explain to me how on earth CA is in such bad shape fiscally. I honestly just don't get it! We have the largest population by far, so that equates to the largest intake of taxes. We also have close to the highest if not in fact the highest income, property and sales tax combined. Our schools are out of control in regards to overpopulation, the government is continually cutting the education budget along with every other budget out there. When I look at how much tax our family alone pays every year I really wonder where all that money is going. I mean we can't even buy soda or bottled water without paying tax on top of another tax (crv). I absolutely love CA but just don't get how we're in such bad shape, are our politicians mentally challenged?

Can anyone please explain this
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Asked and answered!
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Old 01-29-2011, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Torrance, CA
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Perhaps a change in this corrupt and defunct system and society is impossible because we ALL are a part of it as a collective.
IMHO this is exactly the point. As bystanders we've watched Obama's run for presidency from the European point of view. All we saw on TV was American people crying on the streets because they would now have someone who'd finally take care of the great masses instead of the elite. But what happened? The Obama presidency is about to become the biggest deception in American history.

Just recently I read something like "the U.S. elite finally was able to present the people a president who they would still admire and trust while he leaded them to the slaughterhouse".
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Old 01-29-2011, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
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IMHO this is exactly the point. As bystanders we've watched Obama's run for presidency from the European point of view. All we saw on TV was American people crying on the streets because they would now have someone who'd finally take care of the great masses instead of the elite. But what happened? The Obama presidency is about to become the biggest deception in American history.

Just recently I read something like "the U.S. elite finally was able to present the people a president who they would still admire and trust while he leaded them to the slaughterhouse".
Sounds about right. A little dramatic maybe , but it's gotten to the point where the only politicians who have a chance of getting in office are basically a different shade of corporate/elitist tool.

I'm definitely on the more "liberal" or "progressive" end of the spectrum as far as Amerians go, and I didn't vote for Obama. It's not because I thought he was pro-abortion (I think abortions are great), it's not because I thought he was gonna take our guns (he wasn't and isn't), it's not because I think he'd Muslim (oh christ, he's not), it's just that I got the distinct feeling that he'd tell anyone what they wanted to hear, regardless of how much he intended on making it happen. Kind of like Clinton, just not actually capable of doing anything.

Funny though, because I was under the impression that everyone in the EU was all over him...
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Old 01-29-2011, 10:34 AM
 
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There was a time not too many years ago that the state had so much extra money that they sent out rebate checks to tax payers.

The state should have kept that money in a high interest savings account. Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are today if they had.
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Old 01-29-2011, 12:17 PM
 
Location: Below the fray
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Budget by ballot initiative.
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Old 01-29-2011, 12:42 PM
 
Location: California
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Two things: one political party dominates and the large population of illegal immigrants. Its not rocket surgery.
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