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who cares as long as the checks keep coming in the mail,,,,,
Where are these supposed checks & "free stuff" we're all getting? I don't even get my paycheck in the mail, since it goes into my account via direct deposit... last time I got an unexpected check in the mail, it was from Bush's stimulus package in '08. Hmmm.
As for the premise of this thread, a poster early on pointed out the inaccuracies of the OP's statements - and again, I'm not getting any free stuff nor am I wallowing in poverty. So you guys can pontificate and whine about California all you want, but most of us who still live here are happy enough (or we'd have left already). And while I might be able to get more "bang for my buck" in a place like Kansas, well, then I'd be in Kansas. Not to mention, my salary would be considerably lower in a place like that.
There IS a reason we pay more to live here, ya know.
Doesn't California have the most people? Wouldn't it stand to reason that the state with the most people would be at the high up on the charts for basically everything?
Those people are taxed to death and the poor just voted on a 13% tax on the rich. That tax increase is in addition to the increase in taxes that the rich will have to pay if the bush tax cuts expire for the rich. Why would any rich person live in california
The rich are leaving California. It will be interesting to see who the poor try to soak.
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Originally Posted by JazzyTallGuy
Ironically they also lead the nation in really rich people too.
Interesting juxtaposition there, huh? The wealthy Californians aren't the ones leaving, it's actually the middle-class (particularly of the conservative variety) who can't make ends meet running away to TX & AZ. Real estate is still booming in the upper-income towns, and even my father's overpriced & oddly-located home recently sold without much effort. That's probably because, despite the rising COL and tax rates, we still have Silicon Valley and more 6-figure jobs than you'll find almost anywhere. Just a personal observation, but the above link does back up what I'm saying.
Doesn't California have the most people? Wouldn't it stand to reason that the state with the most people would be at the high up on the charts for basically everything?
Shhhhh... don't confuse them with logic, or their brains might explode!
Then explain Louisiana and Mississippi. West Virginia too. Those states are among the poorest and they all voted for Mitt Romney.
Yep. But the longer they spread these lies about "poor welfare slobs with their hands out" only/all voting Dem, the more truthful it apparently seems to them... facts are for schmucks, I guess!
The problem with those super-rosy computations regarding projected income is that they rarely wind up being accurate, and usually wind up falling well short of those absurd projections.
Anybody remembering what an abject failure the 'windfall profits tax' which Congress aimed at the oil companies back in the seventies turned out to be will undoubtedly know better than to belief those pie-in-the-sky numbers in the first place.
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California now officially leads the nation in poor people
