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In four short years, since the tea party takeover, Kansas has had three credit downgrades along with a billion-dollar budget deficit. They are struggling to fund basic services and their education system is hanging on by a thread, with cutbacks making it almost dead last in teacher quality, pay, student spending and pupil-teacher ratio. It's so bad that REPUBLICAN state Sen. Wint Winter Jr. said Brownback's tax cuts have been a "train wreck".
California has become the best state in the union for investors. A great Democratic governor (Jerry Brown) and a Democratic-led legislature turned California around in four short years from a 27 billion dollar deficit disaster into a surplus and, according to Bloomberg, an absolute mecca for corporations! California companies in the S&P 500 have delivered returns of 134 percent! (No other state comes close.) These same companies outperformed the S&P 500 by a margin of 23%; and CA tech company sales account for 52% of all the tech sales in America.
California's unemployment rate is 5.2% and Kansas is 3.7% and California has a date with bankruptcy due to unfunded liabilities, just a matter of when. Republicans built California to the 6th largest economy in the world and incredibly strong industries and universities which to be fair, the Dems haven't totally wrecked yet....given enough time, they will though. They already have gotten a much higher poverty rate than Kansas and much higher cost of living and income inequality rate....which Democrats specialize in.
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In four short years, since the tea party takeover, Kansas has had three credit downgrades along with a billion-dollar budget deficit. They are struggling to fund basic services and their education system is hanging on by a thread, with cutbacks making it almost dead last in teacher quality, pay, student spending and pupil-teacher ratio. It's so bad that REPUBLICAN state Sen. Wint Winter Jr. said Brownback's tax cuts have been a "train wreck".
California has become the best state in the union for investors. A great Democratic governor (Jerry Brown) and a Democratic-led legislature turned California around in four short years from a 27 billion dollar deficit disaster into a surplus and, according to Bloomberg, an absolute mecca for corporations! California companies in the S&P 500 have delivered returns of 134 percent! (No other state comes close.) These same companies outperformed the S&P 500 by a margin of 23%; and CA tech company sales account for 52% of all the tech sales in America.
California is a state with small number of rich people; a shrinking middle class employed as public employees; and a huge unassimilated/non English speaking underclass doing the scut work, burgeoning the welfare system, and lowering the standards of the public schools. Great place!
Take out the Bay Area and Hollywood, and the state would look a lot different.
This is true - if you took out the affluent liberal parts of California, the impoverished conservative parts wouldn't have any outside source of revenue to keep out of insolvency.
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According to the snapshot provided by Evans' office — which compares per capita income taxes and sales taxes with spending on programs like in-home care for seniors, parole services, welfare, MediCal and others — seven of the top 10 contributors of tax revenue to Sacramento are Bay Area counties — all of which lean heavily Democratic. Marin County is No. 1, measured per capita, and Santa Clara County is fourth.
In contrast, the counties receiving the most cash from the state are those in California's impoverished north, like Del Norte and Yuba counties, and especially in the agrarian Central Valley, including Tulare County — the top recipient of state help — but also Kern and Kings counties. Many have more registered Republicans, or only slightly more Democratic voters than Republicans.
California's unemployment rate is 5.2% and Kansas is 3.7% and California has a date with bankruptcy due to unfunded liabilities, just a matter of when. Republicans built California to the 6th largest economy in the world and incredibly strong industries and universities which to be fair, the Dems haven't totally wrecked yet....given enough time, they will though. They already have gotten a much higher poverty rate than Kansas and much higher cost of living and income inequality rate....which Democrats specialize in.
Well as pointed out in the article there has been a democratic governor for the past 4 years, good thing you found the unemployment stat otherwise what would you have. Kansas is in a very difficult situation due to their trickle down economics. Cut's education and other services as they anxiously await their economic policy to kick in, Brownback's answer is to impeach the supreme court because of their rulings on his failed policies.
I would think that those high tech companies would want to move to Kansas with all those tax advantages and low cost of living, and Brownback would be glad to have them.
California, with a state government that depends on borrowed money and the wealth of a small group of elites can not continue for very long. Add to this mix: low paying jobs, class warfare, racial divisiveness, a distrust of the media, the elites and elected officials, and you have a rather combustible situation, in my opinion.
California's unemployment rate is 5.2% and Kansas is 3.7% and California has a date with bankruptcy due to unfunded liabilities, just a matter of when. Republicans built California to the 6th largest economy in the world and incredibly strong industries and universities which to be fair, the Dems haven't totally wrecked yet....given enough time, they will though. They already have gotten a much higher poverty rate than Kansas and much higher cost of living and income inequality rate....which Democrats specialize in.
Don't be fooled by the unemployment numbers. The Governor of Kansas made it easy to get on disability rather than be on welfare and unemployment. One city in southeast Kansas has around 1/3 of the workforce on disability. That's how Brownback helped to get his numbers low.
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