By 54% to 46%, California voters approved Prop 30 yesterday. Prop 30 levies a “temporary” tax hike on wealthier residents for seven years, in order to allegedly pay for improvements to education. But the hard cold fact is, that tax hike will not be temporary, and it is not paying for education improvements. It is first and foremost going into the lavish pensions of unionized teachers. Kids in classrooms around the Golden State won’t see a dime of it, and the legislature and whatever Democrat occupies the big chair will make it permanent eventually. Taxes hikes are almost never “temporary.”
Educators, small business owners and taxpayers were said to be against Prop 30, which is why it passed. A majority of Californians have no use for the second group and treats the third like a vampire treats a neck. Another predictable outcome of passing Prop 30 is that some number of those taxed will leave California, as they have been doing for years now. Or if they have sufficient means, they’ll go Galt.
By a vote of 60% to 39%, California voters approved a business tax hike, in Prop 39. This tax hits multistate businesses, and will supposedly throw the proceeds at more “investment” in “green” technology. Think Solyndra at the state level, basically, government involving itself even more in crony fascism. Genius move, voters. California’s budget deficit won’t be fixed by this. It will be made worse, if anything. Some businesses thinking of expanding into California may reconsider. Those greendoggles that get on the dole are unlikely to leave it, unless they crash.
Fools.
And I’m not even counting Californian’s decision to send Feinstein and Obama back into power in this post.
For Californians considering leaving their state, please, don’t come to Texas unless you intend to do the Apple thing and think differently from the way your state has thought in recent decades. But if you’re part of the outcast minority, then by all means, y’all come.
Gone to Texas!
this californian didnt
i will have to stay here as i am too invested
perhaps it is in the belly of the beast where a competent gameplan to crush these scumsuckers can be developed since dealing with them every day and remaining alive builds a kind of immunity
best wishes to all
Elon Musk is a fool to have a company out there. But maybe his Obama bundler status protects him. Doubt it, but in the exciting new Republic we have now, all things are possible.
California has the same mindset in 2012 that New York had 40 years ago — they can maintain their public sector lifestyles off other people’s money, because those people will never leave the Golden State. New York hit a wall in part because people could stay n the area but just move to ( back then) lower taxing New Jeesey or Connecticut. Owning 800 miles of the Pacific Coast, California can live n denial for longer, but eventually the bill will come due, and while voters across the country in 2012 are more open to big government spending, they want the government to spend the money on them, not the guy down the street or the state across the Rockies.
If and when Calufornia cones to DC hat in hand for a no restrictions bailout, that’s when the fun will begin, because even voters in other Blue States aren’t going to be happy with their money bailing out Californua’s government worker salaries, benefits and pensions.
Yesterday’s vote was Democracy vs. Bureaucracy. And Bureaucracy won. It’s all about the “children.” While they steal their future. Scoundrels all of them. We got and will get what we deserve.
It’s for the kids.
Of course it won’t work. Every income over a million bucks will leave the state – most left a long time ago, and many leave the country, also not a bad idea. The whole US is now going to see a capital outflow like never before.
Money being fungible it will not save the schools, and is not enough to save the state. California is going down fast, and this won’t slow it a bit.
30′s passage actually surprised me, since we have a track record of voting against such measures. One was bound to get through, though: conservatives have been leaving the state for 20 years and, after all, it was “for the children.” (insert eye-rolling)
On the bright side, 31 failed, which would have taken a big step toward implementing the “regionalist” goals of Obama and his community-organizer friend from Chicago, by forcing a tax-base merger of cities and suburbs. I’m grateful for that, at least.
And moving to Texas? Tempting, and I have friends there, but you have June bugs the size of ponies.
I didn’t vote for either of those. I’d gladly leave California for Texas, but I can’t. We are locked in and too many people here depend on us for employment — as long as we can keep it up.
I love California and have no intention of leaving.
If I did, however, I’d take my politics with me, and my politics say no to every government attempt to raise taxes or borrow money.
No exceptions.
Needless to say, I voted no on Proposition 30.
I am off to Texas in January. I moved to California in 79. The current governor was in office and one of the most destructive act of his administration was an executive order allowing collective bargaining by public employee unions. He is now trying to deal with the consequences of that action.KARMA!We are in the process of expanding our workforce and not one new job will be in California
Good luck in their “Boot Camp”…I hear that it’s tough.
I look forward, in a sad sort of way, to the coming collapse. They won’t learn anything from it though.
A leftist acquaintance of mine likes to say, “People are too stupid to know what’s good for them!” I’m beginning to think he’s right.
– in support of his Prop. 30, told teachers that he attended public schools in California.
Sac Bee confirms that Brown attended a Catholic parochial school and then a Catholic high school.
Press would have savaged Meg Whitman for such an assertion. Not covered by the media here.
Explains even the national election results.
Never mind about moving to Texas: California just moved to you.
I’m as crushed as anyone, and living here in California only makes it worse. But I need to provide some perspective:
- Sales tax increase was .25% It is not the end of the world, though it is is setback. I take solace that Brown had to actively campaign for it.
- Income tax increase is 1%, 2%, 3% on top of the three largest tax brackets. It depends on whether you are single or married, but roughly it begins at $500,000 I take solace in the fact that all the hollywood elites who so loudly promoted Obama and the left agenda will be paying these bills.
- Property tax increase (in my district, for school and community college bonds) runs to about $45 per $100k in assessed value. Again, I am not happy about it because there is no need for additional classroom space while they are cutting enrollment. I also note that one local CC is absolutely beautiful, and the other is already undergoing facelifts and has a computer learning center which would be the envy of the Navy and Marine pilots who take their courseware in similar but smaller computer learning centers at Miramar and North Island.
- The initiative to stop automatic union payroll deductions was defeated. It is important to remember that our _advance_ against the union was stopped, but we did not lose ground.
Bad News: I believe the California Assembly passed 2/3 Democratic majority. That means they can raise taxes at will. California is 100% a one party state AFAIK. Perhaps they now have enough rope to hang with?