Re: California's Disatrous Liberal Policies

[DKG]

I read that in California there's a thin slice of blue on the coast, where there's a population overload, but most of the state you just drive an hour into the interior of our state, and there's Trump signs everywhere, and there's people working with their hands.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

I read that in California there's a thin slice of blue on the coast, where there's a population overload, but most of the state you just drive an hour into the interior of our state, and there's Trump signs everywhere, and there's people working with their hands.

Its similar to that in Illinois.  In Chicago and the surrounding burbs, its pretty much Dems only, but just go 30 minutes out and its Trump country.  Yet, Kamala won Illinois by 7-8 percentage points.  Fucked up.

[DKG]

Its similar to that in Illinois.  In Chicago and the surrounding burbs, its pretty much Dems only, but just go 30 minutes out and its Trump country.  Yet, Kamala won Illinois by 7-8 percentage points.  Fucked up.

The left wins urban areas. It is the same in Canada.

[Herman]

[Herman]

[Oerdin]

Leftists destroy everything they touch.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WMlWeb64D2c?si=zd-Oz4zOt2EqLMXk

[Lokmar]

Leftists destroy everything they touch.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WMlWeb64D2c?si=zd-Oz4zOt2EqLMXk

I am one of the very few reich wing people you will meet that supports raising the minimum wage no matter if it destroys the entire country. The minimum wage should continuously raise according to a price index as long as it doesnt include the cost of milk, eggs, and cheese since those are artificially suppressed by the government.

If we had done this for the last 40 years, the outsourcing of American jobs would have been stopped dead cold in its tracks.

Basically, real wages have gone way down across the board, taxes have gone way up, and we have reached a point where everyone will have to face that our currency has no value, just like the currencies of all western nations.

Last time I did the math, and its been several years ago, my minimum wage of $3.25 in 1983 should be around $20/hr today. I make $150K/yr and the buying power of that is a fukin joke. Worse, is when I look at how much more in tax I pay just in the last few years. Pre covid, I capped out $8500.00 in SSI taxes. This year, I paid out over $10,100. My income has remained fairly stagnant over the last 5 years.

I dont know if we're close to Zimbabwe yet but I'm concerned. Gold has more than doubled in 18 months, silver has more than tripled.

It all has to come to an ugly head soon IMO.

[Oerdin]

Naw, that just creates a price spiral.  No minimum wage and let the free market work.

BTW here is another stupid example of how dumb this state is.  A homeowner in Altadena called the California Department of Fish and Game because a 500lb black bear and her cub had invaded the crawl space under his house and CDFG actually argued that the bear had Tennant's rights and had to be legally evicted. 

 https://youtu.be/lx1emFZZaKo?si=URg1Mds1vvVBzvEI

[formosan]

Naw, that just creates a price spiral.  No minimum wage and let the free market work.

BTW here is another stupid example of how dumb this state is.  A homeowner in Altadena called the California Department of Fish and Game because a 500lb black bear and her cub had invaded the crawl space under his house and CDFG actually argued that the bear had Tennant's rights and had to be legally evicted. 

 https://youtu.be/lx1emFZZaKo?si=URg1Mds1vvVBzvEI

So they refused to do their job and remove a large animal.

[Oliver the Second]

Naw, that just creates a price spiral.  No minimum wage and let the free market work.

BTW here is another stupid example of how dumb this state is.  A homeowner in Altadena called the California Department of Fish and Game because a 500lb black bear and her cub had invaded the crawl space under his house and CDFG actually argued that the bear had Tennant's rights and had to be legally evicted. 

 https://youtu.be/lx1emFZZaKo?si=URg1Mds1vvVBzvEI

If the bear is a tenant can't she have it evicted for failure to pay rent?

[Oerdin]

Because of high taxes and massive over regulation food processing companies are fleeing California in record numbers and this is going to gut the agriculture industry.

https://youtu.be/ibf3IjchQWM?si=PkuLjuR4FXVVo8T6

[Oerdin2]

The state of California has lost $1 trillion as Billionaires flee state over a proposal by a self declared socialist to tax unrealized capital gains and wealth which has already been taxed.  These communists, and they truly are communists, openly say they want to abolish private property to "fight racism".

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-billionaire-tax-proposal-hemorrhages-1-trillion-billionaires-flee

[Brent]

I do not feel sorry for these prog billionaires. They turned California into a prog wasteland.

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya says California's proposed billionaire tax is accelerating an exodus of ultra-wealthy residents, a shift he argues will worsen and not solve the state's budget deficit.

Palihapitiya, who has been tracking capital flight from the Golden State, said California has so far lost an estimated $1 trillion.

"We had $2T of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago. Now, 50% of that wealth has left - taking their income tax revenue, sales tax revenue, real estate tax revenue and all their staffs (and their salaries and income taxes) with them," Palihapitiya wrote on X on Sunday.

Even as the measure remains under consideration for the November statewide ballot, some of Silicon Valley's most prominent figures warn it could trigger an exodus of founders and capital.

California has long depended on its billionaire class, among the largest in the nation, to help fund the state budget.

"California billionaires were reliable taxpayers," Palihapitiya wrote.

"They were the sheep you could shear forever. Now California will lose this revenue source forever. Unless this ballot initiative is pulled, we will not stop the billionaire exodus. With no rich people left in California, the middle class will have to foot the bill."

His comments come as California voters consider a proposed ballot initiative backed by the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of California residents worth more than $1 billion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/california-wealth-tax-proposal-hemorrhages-1t-as-billionaires-flee/ar-AA1TZZEk?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=69650be4c4824fdaa7e1b98eb89cd3e0&ei=22