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Governor Schwartzenburger’s swan song (emphasis added):
“California is not Washington. We don’t have the luxury of printing money or running trillion-dollar deficits,” Schwarzenegger said at a news conference Friday morning.
Note the misdirection play at the end of the quotation.
Californians have rendered themselves ungovernable and their legislature incapable of levying reasonable taxes to help pay for the services those same Californians want. They wanted government for free.
It’s not working any more.
So not they want to suck at the federal teat because they are unwilling to pay for what they want.
I certainly have no problem with Federal assistance to states–some needs are too big to be addressed on the state or local level–but I do think the state or locality to show some desire to help itself.
California is a fiscal drunk that wants someone else to pay its bar tab.
January 10, 2010 at 6:37 pm
According to my aunt & crazy uncle, who lived in Ca. for over 20 years, to “fix” the tax rate on properties, it would take approval in the form of a vote by the population. As they put it to me: Who is going to vote to increase their property taxes?
They now live in Oregon, where the cost of living is 1/2 of what it was in Ca. They could afford to live there while they both worked. But once they retired, they couldn’t live as well. Besides, they really like Oregon.