California
Has Become America's Cannibal State
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For over
six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent,
the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million
people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax.
The state legislature sold that confiscatory tax rate on the
idea that it was a temporary fix and would eventually be phased out. No one
believed that. California voters, about 40 percent of whom pay no state income
taxes, naturally approved the extension of the high rate by an overwhelming
margin.
California recently raised gas taxes by 40 percent and now
has the second-highest gas taxes in the United States.
California has the ninth-highest combined state and local
sales taxes in the country, but its state sales tax of 7.3 percent is America's
highest. As of April 1, California is now applying that high state sales tax to
goods that residents buy online from out-of-state sellers.
In late 2017, the federal government capped state and local
tax deductions at $10,000. For high earners in California, the change
effectively almost doubled their state and local taxes.
Such high taxes, often targeting a small percentage of the
population, may have brought California a budget surplus of more than $20
million. Yet California is never satiated with high new tax rates that bring in
additional revenue. It's always hungry for more.
Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator from San Francisco,
has introduced a bill that would create a new California estate tax. Wiener
outlined a death tax of 40 percent on estates worth more than $3.5 million for
single Californians or more than $7 million for married couples.
Given the
soaring valuations of California properties, a new estate tax could force
children to sell homes or family farms they inherited just to pay the tax
bills.
Soon, even more of the Californian taxpayers who chip in to pay half of the state
income taxes will flee in droves for low-tax or no-tax states.
What really irks California taxpayers are the shoddy public
services that they receive in exchange for such burdensome taxes. California
can be found near the bottom of state rankings for schools and infrastructure.
San Francisco ranks first among America's largest cities in
property crimes per capita. The massive concrete ruins of the state's
quarter-built and now either canceled or postponed multibillion-dollar
high-speed rail system are already collecting graffiti.
Roughly a quarter of the nation's homeless live in
California. So do about one-third of all Americans on public assistance.
Approximately one-fifth of the state's population lives below the poverty line.
About one-third of Californians are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state's health
care program for low-income residents.
California's social programs are magnets that draw in the
indigent from all over the world, who arrive in search of generous health,
education, legal, nutritional and housing subsidies. Some 27 percent of the
state's residents were not born in the United States.
Last month alone, nearly 100,000 foreign nationals were
stopped at the southern border, according to officials. Huge numbers of
migrants are able to make it across without being caught, and many end up in
California.
A lot of
upper-middle-class taxpayers feel that not only does California fail to appreciate
their contributions, but that the state often blames them for not paying even
more -- as if paying about half of their incomes to local, state and federal
governments somehow reveals their greed.
The hyper-wealthy liberal denizens of Hollywood, Silicon
Valley and the coastal enclaves often seem exempt from the consequences of the
high taxes they so often advocate for others. The super-rich either have the
clout to hire experts to help them avoid such taxes, or they simply have so
much money that they are not much affected by even California's high taxes.
What is the ideology behind such destructive state policies?
Venezuela, which is driving out its middle class, is
apparently California's model. Venezuelan leaders believed in providing vast
subsidies for the poor. The country's super-rich are often crony capitalists
who can avoid high taxes.
Similarly, California is waging an outright war on the
upper-middle class, which lacks the numbers of the poor and the clout of the
rich.
Those who administer California's plagued department of motor
vehicles and high-speed rail authority may often be inept and dysfunctional,
but the state's tax collectors are the most obsessive bureaucrats in the
nation.
What is Sacramento's message to those who combine to pay half
the state's income taxes and have not yet left California?
"Be gone or we will eat you!"
LEGALS FLEE THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE!
MEXIFORNIA: The Globalist Democrat
Party’s Vision of America
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Migrant enclaves already are at the top
of the U.S. lists for bad places to live - 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
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California—not
Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the
United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty
Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing,
and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one
out of four Californians is poor. Kerry Jackson
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California’s de facto
status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem. With a
permanent majority in the state senate and the assembly, a prolonged dominance
in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long
been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political
price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers
remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove
California to its golden years. Kerry Jackson
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As Breitbart
News reported, if chain migration
is not ended — as President Donald Trump has demanded — the U.S. electorate
will forever be changed, with between seven to eight million new foreign-born
individuals being eligible to vote because of chain migration, and overall, an
additional 15 million new foreign-born voters.
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Missouri Senator Claire McCaskillhas identified California Senator
Kamala Harris as the party leader on issues of immigration and race. Harris
wants a moratorium on construction of
new immigration-detention facilities in favor of the old “catch and release” policy for illegal aliens, and has
urged a shutdown of the government rather than compromise on mass amnesty.
THE STAGGERING
COST OF THE WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE
BUILT BORDER to OPEN BORDER’
According to the Federation
for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal
immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion
annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not
an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage
Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here
illegally) cost Americans trillions over
the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National
Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration costs America over $140
billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are a massive burden on
American taxpayers.
AMERICAN
POVERTY and the LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S BACKS.
"Congress must prioritize four repairs for the
immigration system before contemplating any DACA-style amnesty negotiation,
said Brat:
1.
Ending chain migration and the visa lottery;
3.
Construction of a southern border wall; and
4.
Interior enforcement of immigration law."
REP.
DAVE BRAT
ROBERT
RECTOR:
THE
STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER
EXPANDING
WELFARE STATE
FACTS ON THE “REAL LATINO AMERICA” IN MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST
CITY OF LOS ANGELES:
(these are highly DATED stats)
This is another "fact" spun from the 2004 op-ed by
Heather Mac Donald, whose article refers to a single Los Angeles gang and the conjecture
of an unnamed federal prosecutor.
1.
"40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and
not paying taxes. . . . This is because they are predominantly illegal
immigrants working without a green card." The Mexican tax-free economy in
Los Angeles County is estimated to be in excess of $2 billion dollars a year.
2.
"95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal
aliens . . . "
3.
"75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are
illegal aliens."
4.
"Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to
illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by
taxpayers." The County of Los Angeles hands Mexico’s anchor baby breeders
more than a BILLION DOLLARS a year in welfare.
5.
"Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers
are Mexican nationals here illegally." California has the largest and most
expensive prison system in the country. Half the inmates are now Mexicans. Half
the murders in California are by Mexican gangs.
6.
Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in
garages.
7. "The
FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal
aliens from south of the border."
8. "Nearly 60% of all occupants
of HUD properties are illegal."
immigrants.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are
Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A.
County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
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