HIGHWAYMAN wrote:
maybe the reason california is short of money is because it's full of aliens and rich bastards.
the aliens dont pay taxes and thanks to bush the rich dont pay much either.
no taxes = no state funds.
It's a bit more complicate than that. It's the high unemployment. I think most people voted for Arnold because they are desperate. The business fled. People believe that Arnold will be able to bring the businesses back, and with them the well employed people who have money to spend.
Personally, i doubt. The state lost first the manufacturing industries to the 3rd World and in more recent years start loosing the services industry too. If companies can make more money by operating overseas they are not going to do it from here.
People are not working they don't pay income taxes. The ones working don't feel secure and they don't go in shopping sprees. Less shopping less tax income for the state, counties, and cities. Thousands of people left California either back to their countries or to their origin states. And those were well paid individuals who contributed a lot to the economy.
And there is other things:
The Federal Government has also been cutting the money to states but still mandating that services continue to be provided.
And the Democrats are not without fault either. When the State was having high revenues money was being wasted left and right. The Democrats created a giant Admnistrative machine, and even if it is true they increased the services, they could still have done it by spending a lot less money than they did.
Regarding the ilegal imigrants (aliens is the oficial word), it is true that thousands come across the board. If they are desperate enough to come here be paid 2.00/ basket to pick crops there is not much they can do to stop them . Besides it's very convenient to local companies and to the farmers to have such cheap labour available. The Republicans may make political talk out of it but they are not going to stop that. It's too convenient for their political supporters. The State is required by the Federal goverment to provide emergency medi-cal for the ilegal aliens, and yes that costs a lot of money but that has to do with Public Health. They don't want to have a bunch of people running around spreading tuberculosis or other contagious diseases or being pregnant and having kids with no heath care.
Regarding the rich paying more taxes.
That's never going to happen here. The middle class pays the most taxes. Nor Democrats nor Republicans will touch that.
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