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With California's clout in Congress they will probably get all the FEMA funds they demand just like they get the rest of the country to pay for their high speed rail, etc while smaller states get crumbs despite the taxes we pay
Between 2014 and 2015, the California population was estimated to have grown a mere 0.9%. Between 2016 and 2036, growth is expected to slow to .76 percent, or 6.5 million people, according to California's Department of Finance.
Demographic percentage estimates show seniors' proportion rising overall, with the group of those over 65 rising from 14 percent to 23 percent of the population by 2036. A low birth rate (less than the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman) and longer life spans together to create an overall aging demographic. In fact, in 2030, the baby boomers will be such a big group that their share of the state's population will be more than people under 18.
cali is greying ……..
As is every other state. Great argument for increasing immigration. More young people, more kids, more consumers and taxpayers to support my graying butt.
Another day on City Data, another right-wing thread bashing California. Meanwhile, people keep moving there, the economy keeps growing, and the blood-red Plains states so worshiped by the far-right keep slowly losing people.
Typical right-wing silliness: hating what they cannot have and cannot understand.
I keep saying they should switch with me because meanwhile I want to move to there as I hate where I live and I'm envious that my mom got to grow up in IMO the best state in the US.
I do know the taxes are something else which is part of the reason it's not viable.
I hope they keep leaving. If they leave less riff raff and maybe prices will go down so I can finally live there.
It's super expensive, over-populated which makes traffic horrible, and there's a big homeless and gang issue. It's a beautiful state, but I'd only consider Santa Barbara, and I can't afford that area.
Places like Carmel, Lompoc, Big Sur and Solvang don't have horrible traffic, overpopulation, big homeless or gang issues.
Neither does Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo, Oxnard, Ventura, etc.
Backward world again. CA pays its way while the average state is a welfare recipient:
"California is, indeed, a donor state. It receives $0.99 in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes paid, which is below the national average return for states of $1.22 per dollar paid, according to its review of a 2015 New York Comptroller study.
That study ranked California 42nd among the fifty states and the District of Columbia for the amount of federal per capita expenditure ($9,172)."
1/3 of the nation's welfare recipients live in california, and 1/5 of Californians are in poverty
No other figures change the big picture. CA. also has well over 1/2 of the Venture Capital (Capitalism!) in the United States. But you didn't quote that figure.
It also incubates and contains some of the largest companies in the world. You forgot to mention that.
Taken alone - as just a state - it has the 5th largest economy in the world (if it were a nation). Bigger than the UK. That's quite an accomplishment considering the UK has been at it for many more centuries and sucked resources from much of the known world to create their economy.
You forgot to quote that. I guess they don't tell you that on Fox.
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