Comments on: California on ‘verge of system failure’ http://revolutionradio.org/?p=2003 Your Weapon of Mass Destruction Thu, 23 May 2013 16:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ross Wolf http://revolutionradio.org/?p=2003&cpage=1#comment-1460 Ross Wolf Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:58:43 +0000 http://revolutionradio.org/?p=2003#comment-1460 This article blames too much of California's economic crisis on not collecting enough property tax. I lived California in the 1970's before Prop. 13 was passed that put a cap on the amount property taxes could be raised. In the five years prior California could not run a balanced budget without raising property taxes sometimes 25% each year. When someone paid too high a price for a house on a street, CA tax assessors responded by greatly raising property taxes for everyone else on the street. This article also made no mention of the costs of illegal immigrants adding to California's bankruptcy. Meanwhile California wants U.S. Taxpayers money but does nothing substantial to mitigate costs of it illegal residents using taxpayer supported servies. State employees are paid more that persons doing similar work in the private sector, get insurance Californians can only dream about; state employees so far across the nation have not experienced the layoff that private sector workers have. Perhaps if California goes completely broke, mostIllegal Immigrants will leave. This article blames too much of California’s economic crisis on not collecting enough property tax. I lived California in the 1970′s before Prop. 13 was passed that put a cap on the amount property taxes could be raised. In the five years prior California could not run a balanced budget without raising property taxes sometimes 25% each year. When someone paid too high a price for a house on a street, CA tax assessors responded by greatly raising property taxes for everyone else on the street.

This article also made no mention of the costs of illegal immigrants adding to California’s bankruptcy. Meanwhile California wants U.S. Taxpayers money but does nothing substantial to mitigate costs of it illegal residents using taxpayer supported servies. State employees are paid more that persons doing similar work in the private sector, get insurance Californians can only dream about; state employees so far across the nation have not experienced the layoff that private sector workers have. Perhaps if California goes completely broke, mostIllegal Immigrants will leave.

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