Aletheia4u
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California doesn't take care of their roads. They have the homeless to fill in the pot holes around the cities.We know that we have to make up for the red states who take our tax dollars so we pay higher taxes here in our states.Californians passed up two chances to lower taxes, voting to keep higher gasoline taxes and reject a proposed tax break for older homeowners in moves that experts said could highlight a greater tolerance for taxes even as many state residents bemoan the high cost of living.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-voters-reject-ballot-measures-to-lower-taxes
What do you have against voting, democracy and the will of the people?
The people of California are like my state. We know nothing is free and we don't get all the tax dollars we send to DC. We know that we have to make up for the red states who take our tax dollars so we pay higher taxes here in our states. We also know that all our state tax dollars stay in our states. It's not shipped off to red states who don't properly tax their people and leach off those of us who do. We benefit from those taxes.
The people of California were given the choice to speak. They spoke. They want to continue to properly fund their state.
You may think that taxes are evil and theft but those of us who know better don't want to live in a third world nation garbage hole.
thats not why you pay higher taxes....
It's one of the reasons why.
We also don't expect the federal government to pay all of our roads. We pay most of the cost for our roads. Thus we don't have a bunch of private owned toll roads or roads that are full of holes and falling apart.
We don't expect the federal government to provide everything that we need.
That's what red states believe. They don't properly tax their population and business thus they take much more from the federal government than us blue states. Their state budgets are mostly dependent on federal dollars than us blue states. Most red state education systems are far below what blue states have and have much fewer high school and college graduates.
The red states are at the top of all the very bad lists and at the bottom of the good lists.
My state recently voted a very large increase in our property and vehicle taxes to pay for light rail and more public transit. We also voted to increase our phone taxes to provide 9-11 services to the rural and eastern part of my state. They don't have the tax base to pay for it so us liberals raised our own taxes to build it and pay for it. We also voted to raise our electric taxes to build a new electrical grid to handle the power generated by our very large wind farms.
New taxes can't be imposed without a vote of the people in my state. So most off the taxes in my state are by the consent and will of the people. We want a 21st century state and economy.
Which has paid off my state has the number one economy in the nation. We have the highest state minimum wage, very good paying jobs that provide proper benefits and a much higher standard of living.
We don't have a state income tax.