California has changed 180 degrees since the Reagan years

[Polishprince]

Sort of interesting how during the Reagan Administration, poor people got rich and immediately moved to California.

Yet, now, they live on the sidewalks of the Golden State when they are broke- and only leave after they get wealthy.

Maybe its time for a sitcom where a poor California family camping in Los Angeles hits the jackpot with a lawsuit against the city and moves with their new found wealth to Appalachia?

 

[1srelluc]

 

[Moonglow]

Sort of interesting how during the Reagan Administration, poor people got rich and immediately moved to California.

Yet, now, they live on the sidewalks of the Golden State when they are broke- and only leave after they get wealthy.

Maybe its time for a sitcom where a poor California family camping in Los Angeles hits the jackpot with a lawsuit against the city and moves with their new found wealth to Appalachia?

However, every major form of state tax collection rose over the same period. Sales taxes were boosted from 4 percent to 6 percent. The maximum income tax rate went from 7 percent to 11 percent. The banking and corporate tax rate rose from 5.5 percent to 9 percent. Between Brown's last year in office and the end of the Reagan administration, the annual state budget had climbed from $4.6 billion to $10.2 billion.

To put all of this in personal terms and adjust for inflation, the total real per-capita tax load in California went from $426.26 to $5556.84 (an increase of 31 percent) over this same period.

4. A governor's report card

Jesse Unruh, the famous "Big Daddy" of California politics, speaks with greater authority than most other observers regarding the record

www.csmonitor.com

 

[Harry Dresden]

Sort of interesting how during the Reagan Administration, poor people got rich and immediately moved to California.

Yet, now, they live on the sidewalks of the Golden State when they are broke- and only leave after they get wealthy.

Maybe its time for a sitcom where a poor California family camping in Los Angeles hits the jackpot with a lawsuit against the city and moves with their new found wealth to Appalachia?

you can tell you never lived there....

 

[citygator]

180 degrees? That’s some serious global warming.