Required Reading
February 17th, 2009 - 9:24 am
Chris Ayres on California:
This is a state whose money comes from the most bankable economic assets on Earth – the Long Beach ports, the Central Valley agricultural region, the defence contractors out in the Mojave desert, Silicon Valley, Napa Valley… Hollywood. How do you tax all this and end up amassing debts at the present rate of $1.7 million per hour?
Easy. Let Californians run the place.
Right. Into. The ground.
Hey, come on – it’s not like all of us here are happy with the situation either. And some of us are even working on ways to blow the whole thing up.
It’s the initiative process. All that spending stuff (public school funding, anyone?) went right into the state constitution, where not even the legislature can get rid of it.
I gotta admit, it’s fitting for the Funniest End of Civilization Ever.
I mean, how many people actually thought that they could destroy their state before the big earthquake turned Arizona into beach-front property?