Thinker101
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Government workers helped bankrupt California ( and most other states ). Good job.
WRONG
Our economic issue was the result of the Republican and Conservative Movement which began with Proposition 13, and was further exacerbated by the Passage of Proposition 26.
The former allowed Real Estate Taxes for corporations, apt. houses, hotels, Rail Roads and other commercial buildings which are rarely sold, which prevents local government to appraise their fair market value. Thus their value can never rise more than 2% annually.
Home owners generally move several times in their lifetime and this results in every sale a higher burden to home owners, for they are assessed at the sale price.
Prop 26 required new taxes to be passed by a super majority, 2/3 + 1; even though the Republicans were in the minority they could block any effort to raise taxes, and this resulted in a period of Don't tax and spend. The R's moved to be the party of law and order (sans justice, one will notice) and passed law to incarcerate non violent felons for many years.
The People spoke at the ballot box, and Jerry Brown was once again elected governor for two terms. First prop. 26 was stricken by the vote of the people, and Gov. Brown's fiscal policies were conservative but responsible.
Really?! Jerry pretty much screwed the pooch the first time he was governor...dumbass.
BTW...
California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May Be Time For Everyone To Leave The State Of California For Good
9 Most Bankrupt States In America: Is Yours On The List?
It's lucky for you, you never took freshman English at a University, you would have flunked. As it is you take an attitude and a bias and wrap it in irrelevant appeals to authority (op-ed, blogs and internet poopaganda ) and claim to be a thinker.
All of my points can be verified, if
(1) you had taken and passed a basic English course in reading comprehension and expository writing,
and,
(2) Were curious and not locked in the ideological box of 21st Century Conservative pooapaganda you might know enough not to embarrass yourself.
Hmmm...evidently you failed English. What was it High School, you certainly didn't make it to University level...dumbass.