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CALIFORNIA - A COLONY OF MEXICO - Poll: Nearly 70% Happy in California, but Over 40% Think of Leaving
In truth, the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San Francisco, which now has the highest property crime rate among major cities.
The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats. MONICA SHOWALTER
California approves ‘shocking’ policy giving weekly checks to migrants: Report
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA SHOWALTER
Poll: Nearly 70% Happy in California, but Over 40% Think of Leaving
Nearly 70% of California residents say they are happy in the state, but over 40% also say that they are thinking about leaving it, according to a new poll.
The California Community Poll, by Strategies 360, was conducted by the Los Angeles Times and a consortium of community groups between June 6 to 16 among 1354 residents of the Golden State. It found, among other results: “Robust majorities of residents across regional, demographic, and racial lines feel happy about living in California (71%), report that living in California is important to their personal identities (68%), and say California is a place where they fit in and feel comfortable (68%).”
However, the Timesnoted, over 40% are thinking of leaving, largely because of the cost of living, but also because of the state’s policies:
More than 40% of residents say they’re contemplating moving out of California, with nearly half of them saying they’re considering that “very seriously.” About 61% pointed to the high cost of living here as the reason they’d go. People of color are far more likely to say that the expense of living in California is the reason they might leave. About 71% of residents who are either Black or Asian/Pacific Islander and considering relocating cited the cost of living.
Nearly 30% of those surveyed said they might leave because the state’s policies and laws don’t align with their political views, a reflection of the polarization of the state and the nation at the moment. Respondents who identified as conservative were much more likely to cite the politics of the state as the reason why they were considering moving.
Self-identified Republicans were three times as likely as Democrats to say that the state’s politics were why they wanted to go.
The apparent contradiction in the poll results could affect Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chances as he lines himself up for a potential presidential run, either in 2024 — if President Joe Biden steps aside — or in 2028.
Newsom has few concrete policy achievements to his name after two decades in politics, and faced a recall in 2021 driven by outrage over his flouting of his own draconian coronavirus restrictions. However, he has championed liberal positions on social issues, and the state continues to attract talented and ambitious young people, even as it loses residents overall to other states with lower taxes, fewer regulations, less crime, and lower costs of living.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
CA makes up third of homeless population in U.S., according to study
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
California approves ‘shocking’ policy giving weekly checks to migrants: Report
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.
Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
When Arizona, a state that has historically leaned conservative, was won by Joe Biden and now-senator Mark Kelly this week, very few were taken by surprise. Extensive polling indicated Arizona was ripe for swinging liberal and in this instance, at least, the polling was correct.
The question is why? Why has a state that held two elected Republican senators as recently as 2018 and which held a dependable stable of electoral votes for GOP presidential candidates become a purple state on its way to becoming solidly blue? Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.
The answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California. Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.
Who is responsible for creating such an alarming living environment within the state? California liberals. A November, 2020 report produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University stated that California has 395,608 regulatory restrictions. The sheer volume and scope of California regulations creates such a compliance nightmare that they kill entire industries, send housing prices to unattainable heights, and restrict even commonplace liberties for which conservative leaning states are known.
Piled onto California’s endless river of regulations are its nonsensical laws and policies. Twenty major metropolitan cities or counties in California have established laws, ordinances, regulations, or other practices that shield illegal immigrants from prosecution after committing a crime. These counties brazenly safeguard illegal immigrant criminals against deportation either through noncompliance or by refusing to hand them over to federal agencies such as ICE. With over $1.5 trillion in state and local government debt, California effectively has little money to spare for conveniences such as criminal incarceration. What do sanctuary cities and counties see as the alternative to handing illegal immigrant criminals over for deportation? Release them back into the general population, of course.
Consider this: Between 2014 and 2017, the FBI reported that 49 states saw an average increase in crime annually of around 3%. After implementing “humane” alternatives to criminal prosecution, California crime increased more than 12% per year over the same time period. With irrational sanctuary policies that send a clear message of little to no consequence for offenses, is it any wonder California’s crime rate is now spiraling out of control?
Arizona is not the only beneficiary of the California exodus. The Colorado State Demography Office has published an active flow map of people moving into the state from 2010 on. Disturbingly, the state sending the most movers to Colorado since then has consistently been California. As recently as 2004, Colorado had the political trifecta of a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled House and Senate. A short ten years later, all three had turned irrevocably Democrat. The subsequent consequence? A drastic increase in state and local regulations, a dramatic increase in violent crimes, a severe shortage of home inventory and affordable housing, and a staggering increase in homelessness. Do these newfound troubles sound familiar to any other state mentioned here? The only safeguard against out-of-control tax hikes in Colorado is the TABOR Amendment passed by voters 1992, prior to the influx of California residents, that requires taxpayer approval for any new tax. Not surprisingly, emboldened liberals in Colorado are vigorously resolute in repealing this tax hike protection. As of the most recent election they are unsuccessful, yet remain undeterred.
What has coincided with Colorado’s decline? The mass inflow of Californians to the state. Californians have brought with them all the very same liberal doctrines and ideologies that forced their flight from California in the first place. Does this dissuade liberal Californians from shaping Colorado into the very image of California? Not in the least.
If there is any hope for Arizona, it is that they might learn from the resulting ruin of Colorado, however unlikely.
In the 2020 election, Texas was startlingly considered in play for liberals. Since 2015, which state has contributed the most emigrants into Texas? Not surprisingly, the state of California. The hope for liberals is that they can turn Texas into the next purple soon-to-be blue state. The coveted prize is Texas’ electoral votes. Even more insidious, if liberals are able to capture Texas as they have done in Colorado and Arizona, they will force the state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. They will then achieve their ultimate goal of a Democrat president reigning over the United States for endless generations until the point our country experiences the same collapse as other great civilizations throughout world history.
The obvious question is this: How can Texas avoid the same fate as states such as Colorado and Arizona? Simple. By being proactive.
It is much easier for liberals to enact new legislation than to argue for the removal of existing laws. With this in mind, Texas should take advantage of their current Republican-controlled Senate, House, and governor’s office by making haste and passing laws that would limit the future incursion of liberal meddling. Texas can presently enact laws that prohibit sanctuary cities, require voter approval to remove the state’s mandated balanced budget, require that any new regulation must necessitate the removal of an existing one, and compel voter approval of each new local or state tax including non-user fees. While such laws may only serve to stem the liberal takeover of the state, they would be roadblocks making it much more difficult for ideological infiltration in areas that affect inhabitant’s liberties and quality of life.
It would be absurd to suppose Californians have malintent. Rather, they are simply following the course with which they are most familiar while being blissfully ignorant of the negative unintended consequences their political ideology brings. To suggest that any act of suppression, aggression, or intimidation towards Californians moving into red states is acceptable would simply be un-American and subject to the same type of hypocrisy liberals practice. If conservatives stoop to their level, we have lost the battle and, perhaps, the war.
However, by taking aggressive legislative action in states that have not yet succumbed to liberal infiltration, Conservatives will effectively be planting our flag in a defiant refusal to hand over our institutions and our liberty.
State and Local Politicians Move to Grant Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens
California’s State Senate passed a bill last week to give unemployed illegal migrants $300 weekly unemployment checks for up to 20 weeks, despite the fact that the state faces a $32 billion budget deficit.
California’s fiscus has fallen in the space of one year from a surplus of $100 billion, partly based on federal cash for coronavirus relief, to a staggering deficit of $32 billion.
In his revised budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) cautioned legislators to maintain “prudence.” But under SB 227, “excluded” workers who are in the country illegally would be able to receive $300 per week in benefits.
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California’s unemployment insurance program is already controversial, having lost $30 billion in fraudulent claims during the pandemic. The state recently defaulted on a federal loan to cover a shortfall in benefits.
Now, the Washington Free Beacon reports, the bill, SB 227, proposed by State Sen. MarÃa Elena Durazo (D-Agoura Hills), has passed the State Senate and moves to the Assembly, with heavy potential implications:
Under SB 227, unemployment fund officials would be barred from asking for claimants’ social security number eligibility or contacting past or present employers to verify their job status. Instead, applicants would self-attest that they meet the requirements for the weekly checks: having earned at least $1,300 or worked at least 93 hours over three months. Acceptable documentation would include tax returns, transaction logs on payment apps, and receipts that show a commuting pattern.
The State Senate passed the measure just months after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) said the undocumented migrant influx could “break” California.
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The Golden State already offers free health coverage and driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. More than two million illegal immigrants live in California.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
San Francisco’s Biggest Population Losses: Ages 25-34
San Francisco lost a higher percentage of residents during the pandemic between the ages of 25 and 29 than any other population group, followed closely by residents between the ages of 30 and 34, Census data show.
The San Francisco Chroniclereports that the city’s biggest percentage losses were among the age cohort that makes up the bulk of entry-level jobs — and that is also responsible for starting young families:
Newly-released U.S. census data shows that the city’s biggest population losses from 2020 to 2022 came from residents in their late 20s and early 30s.
The data shows that the number of San Franciscans ages 25 to 29 dropped from 94,000 in April 2020 to 74,000 in June 2022, a 21% decrease. The second largest decline was among 30- to 34-year-olds, going from 105,000 in 2020 to just under 88,000 in 2022, a 16% decrease. The third greatest decrease was among 0- to 4-years olds.
For all of these age groups, most of the decline happened in the first year of the pandemic, but even from 2021 to 2022, their populations continued to fall, and at unusually high rates.
While other cities also lost residents, San Francisco has been unusually slow to recover. Mobile phone data suggest that San Francisco’s recovery has been slower than of 62 other major U.S. cities.
The city is suffering an ongoing exodus of retail stores from the downtown area, partly because of population losses and the lack of foot traffic, but also because of crime, homelessness, and drugs in the city.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Nolte: Wall Street Bets Against Democrat-Run Downtowns
Wall Street is now betting against America’s Democrat-run downtowns ever recovering from being run exclusively by Democrats.
“Wall Street is betting against America’s [Democrat-run] downtowns,” writes the Wall Street Journal.
“Investors are paying less for bonds linked to New York subways and buses,” says the report. “Downtown-focused real-estate investment trusts trade at less than half their prepandemic levels. Bondholders are demanding extra interest to hold office-building debt.”
Downtowns have been a mother lode for American cities over the years, providing billions of dollars in tax revenue along with their distinctive skylines. In turn, investors who bet on downtown office towers, or on the trains and buses delivering workers to them, could generally trust they held a winning hand.
Now, with white-collar workers spending more time in their home offices, a phenomenon that shows few signs of ending, investments linked to downtowns are trading at falling prices in volatile markets.
And which downtowns are we talking about? Democrat-run Houston. Democrat-run Chicago. Democrat-run Los Angeles. Democrat-run San Francisco. Democrat-run New York.
Does anyone see a pattern emerging here?
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“Investors’ dimming view of downtowns isn’t good news for [Democrat-run] cities’ finances, nor for their residents,” continues the report. “It puts under strain some of [Democrat-run] city governments’ traditional ways of extracting wealth: collecting property taxes on office buildings, taxes on wages earned within city limits, and fares from office workers’ commutes.”
One analyst described it this way: “You could see this as a slow-motion change or as the beginning of a slow-moving train wreck.”Things are so bad in Democrat-run New York; the library is preparing to close down one day a week in order to save money.According to one tracking group, Democrat-run downtown office buildings “are only about 50% as full as before Covid-19 across 10 major [Democrat-run] metro areas[.]”
As the great Ace of Spades once wrote: It was the fucking aroundest of times. It was the finding outest of times.
All in an effort to beat Trump in 2020, these Democrat Sociopaths shut down their cities, shut down their schools, released violent criminals, and allowed the domestic terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa to run wild.
What did they expect? That after Rapey Joe was installed, everything would return to normal? Idiots.
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I’ll tell you exactly what happened… 1) people discovered they enjoyed working from home, 2) companies discovered it was much cheaper to allow employees to work from home, 3) parents discovered Republicans don’t cause havoc by closing schools, and (most importantly), 4) people discovered that Democrats are willing to use any excuse to unleash chaos, disrupt the lives of citizens, and grab dictatorial power they wield without mercy or reason (liquor stores open, churches, gyms, and schools closed). So, people fled.
People complain about the rat race, the rut, and routine; that’s why they enjoy shows like The Walking Dead; it allows them to fantasize about breaking the routine with a little adventure. But the excitement wore off pretty quickly when the reality of that “adventure” hit with the lockdowns.
People missed their dull, uneventful lives and grew to appreciate them. But now that power-mad Democrats have proven they are willing to throw a grenade at our gloriously dull and uneventful lives, people and companies fled.
You see, this is why socialism can only “work” through violence. In a free country like ours, one where we can just pick up and go if we don’t like things, the Woke Reich will always lose. People want to be free. Most of all, they want to be left alone. Above all, they want their children left alone. Only the threat of violence can create a society where people don’t flee, and of course, that threat of violence starts with confiscating every law-abiding citizen’s guns.
Hotels Are Dumping Property in San Francisco as Tourists Shun Crime-Ridden City
A growing number of hotels in San Fransisco are preparing to leave the struggling city, following numerous retailers and businesses that packed their bags amid high crime and widespread homelessness.
Hotels in the California city are lagging behind those in comparable cities. Revenue per available room was 23 percent lower in April than during the same time in 2019, while hotels in New York City and Los Angeles are exceeding their 2019 metric, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The city's Huntington Hotel and the Yotel San Fransisco hotel were both sold after facing foreclosure in recent months. The Club Quarters San Francisco may also be heading to foreclosure. The number of embattled hotels may soon rise as more than 20 locations will face loans due in the next two years, the Journal reported.
Perhaps the biggest hit to the local market came last week when the owner of both the city's largest hotel, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, and its fourth-largest, Parc 55, said it ceased payments on $725 million worth of loans and entered foreclosure because the city is facing "major challenges."
The decision was "very difficult, but necessary" because of "concerns over street conditions," office vacancies, and reduced conventions, said Thomas J. Baltimore Jr., CEO of Park Hotels & Resorts, which owns the two hotels.
Homicides in San Fransisco have increased nearly 40 percent from 2020 to 2022 and deaths from fentanyl have spiked.
The hotels follow a long line of businesses that have chosen to flee. Old Navy announced in May it will close its flagship store. Whole Foods and Nordstrom have shuttered businesses in the city over safety concerns. The latter's exit is costing the city 380 jobs. The downtown area of the city has lost half of its businesses since the start of the pandemic.
Democratic mayor London Breed and several city officials held an outdoor meeting on crime in May in the city's United Nations Plaza, known for drug use and crime. A crowd of spectators screamed insults and booed the officials, and one of them threw a brick that almost hit a child, local outlet KRON4 reported. The city officials adjourned the meeting amid the disruption and continued it from inside the city hall building.
A recent study found very few people in the Bay Area feel safe on public transportation. The Bay Area Council found in a poll that 78 percent of residents said they would ride more often if trains and buses were safer and cleaner. Just 17 percent of those asked said they feel safe on public transit.
Democrat governor Gavin Newsom downplayed San Francisco's struggles in an interview this week, saying the city is going through a "rebirth" and "reimagination." "They're struggling to recover from the pandemic," Newsom said when asked about crime causing businesses to flee. "They're struggling with the macroeconomic shifts."
A growing number of hotels in San Fransisco are preparing to leave the struggling city, following numerous retailers and businesses that packed their bags amid high crime and widespread homelessness.
Hotels in the California city are lagging behind those in comparable cities. Revenue per available room was 23 percent lower in April than during the same time in 2019, while hotels in New York City and Los Angeles are exceeding their 2019 metric, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The city's Huntington Hotel and the Yotel San Fransisco hotel were both sold after facing foreclosure in recent months. The Club Quarters San Francisco may also be heading to foreclosure. The number of embattled hotels may soon rise as more than 20 locations will face loans due in the next two years, the Journal reported.
Perhaps the biggest hit to the local market came last week when the owner of both the city's largest hotel, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, and its fourth-largest, Parc 55, said it ceased payments on $725 million worth of loans and entered foreclosure because the city is facing "major challenges."
The decision was "very difficult, but necessary" because of "concerns over street conditions," office vacancies, and reduced conventions, said Thomas J. Baltimore Jr., CEO of Park Hotels & Resorts, which owns the two hotels.
Homicides in San Fransisco have increased nearly 40 percent from 2020 to 2022 and deaths from fentanyl have spiked.
The hotels follow a long line of businesses that have chosen to flee. Old Navy announced in May it will close its flagship store. Whole Foods and Nordstrom have shuttered businesses in the city over safety concerns. The latter's exit is costing the city 380 jobs. The downtown area of the city has lost half of its businesses since the start of the pandemic.
Democratic mayor London Breed and several city officials held an outdoor meeting on crime in May in the city's United Nations Plaza, known for drug use and crime. A crowd of spectators screamed insults and booed the officials, and one of them threw a brick that almost hit a child, local outlet KRON4 reported. The city officials adjourned the meeting amid the disruption and continued it from inside the city hall building.
A recent study found very few people in the Bay Area feel safe on public transportation. The Bay Area Council found in a poll that 78 percent of residents said they would ride more often if trains and buses were safer and cleaner. Just 17 percent of those asked said they feel safe on public transit.
Democrat governor Gavin Newsom downplayed San Francisco's struggles in an interview this week, saying the city is going through a "rebirth" and "reimagination." "They're struggling to recover from the pandemic," Newsom said when asked about crime causing businesses to flee. "They're struggling with the macroeconomic shifts."
The Cinemark Movie Theater chain has announced that it will be permanently shutting down its Downtown San Francisco Centre location this Friday, as San Francisco continues its death spiral of shuttered businesses proliferating across the city.
This week, shopping center giant Westfield announced that it will be closing its once booming shopping mall located just south of the city’s famed Chinatown and Nob Hill neighborhoods due to the troubling “dynamics of the downtown” area, a not-so-subtle hint at the city’s soaring crime rate and subsequent loss of foot traffic and tourists.
Only two days later, Cinemark made an announcement of its own and told customers that it will be shuttering its theater in the mall, with its last showings happening on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Standard.
The paper added that Cinemark said it was closing the location after a “comprehensive review of local business conditions.”
The Standard also noted that the theater is accessible via a bank of elevators in the mall concourse, and the lifts had often been found smeared with human waste.
Cinemark is hardly alone. More than half the stores and eateries in the mall have closed since 2020.
The Standard included a list of more than 20 major retail chains that have closed their doors since 2020, including the Gap, the Disney Store, Amazon, Office Depot, Nordstrom, Old Navy, and many more.
San Francisco’s retail decline has been far worse than the general decline forced on retailers by the response to the coronavirus, especially as the City By The Bay has been hit with the trend of businesses allowing employees to work from home and a massive population decline as people flee the failing city for other regions. With these pressures, San Francisco’s recovery was one of the slowest in the nation.
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But San Francisco has also suffered from a skyrocketing crime rate, a rise in homeless people, and open-air drug abuse. On top of all that, the city was best by waves of “mass looting” in 2021 during the many BLM riots.
Politics has also been a major source of trouble for the city. Liberals try to claim that San Francisco’s soft-on-crime policies have not led to the retail exodus, but shoplifting has led to the closing of a growing number of stores, and some employees of downtown retailers fear coming to work.
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inventory and affordable housing, and a staggering increase in homelessness. Do these newfound troubles sound familiar to any other state mentioned here? The only safeguard against out-of-control tax hikes in Colorado is the TABOR Amendment passed by voters 1992, prior to the influx of California residents, that requires taxpayer approval for any new tax. Not surprisingly, emboldened liberals in Colorado are vigorously resolute in repealing this tax hike protection. As of the most recent election they are unsuccessful, yet remain undeterred.
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