If libs/leftists/socialists really wanted their “victims” to have pride and dignity they’d find a way to let them earn it, instead of scheming every way they could to steal more of our money.

Summary of the article: neither state does a great job of providing services, but Texas does it better on less money than California. The reason: they focus more on what the taxpayers need. One example from the column:

Texas not only spends its citizens’ dollars more effectively than California but emphasizes priorities that are more broadly beneficial. Per capita spending on transportation was 5.9% lower in California, and highway expenditures in particular were 9.5% lower, a discovery both plausible and infuriating to any Los Angeles commuter losing the will to live while sitting in yet another freeway traffic jam.

So who does benefit from the high taxes Californians pay? You guessed it: public employee unions.

the latest posting on the website of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility shows 9,223 former civil servants and educators receiving pensions worth more than $100,000 a year from California’s public retirement funds.

Which is why people are leaving states like CA, NY, MA, and NJ and heading to states like Texas. Unfortunately, as Carlos noted, many of them are economically illiterate libs who will promptly vote for the same policies in the new state that ruined their old states.

None of the union spending or gerrymandered districts would work if the voters really objected to what the legislature is doing. I predict that this extra withholding will make effectively no difference in the next set of elections in CA.

That said, just like the feds, the legislature is the one who passes budgets, not the guvnor; all he can do is sign them into law or veto them. Another sign the guvnor is really a donkey.

And, if you were paying attention, it’s been a long time since I saw the claim that signing up as a “Republican” automatically made one a fiscal conservative. As proof, I offer you the Republican side of our national Congress.

I’ve not seen anything but the promos for the new ABC series “V”, but they sound eerily like what’s coming out of D.C. (and Sacramento). Might be worth a watch this season, until Hollyweird P.C. writers somehow turn it into a show that blames all conservatives for the woes the aliens visit upon humanity.

I’m often just amazed at how unintellectual so call intellectual liberals are. Even a moron can figure out people aren’t going to spend more and work harder to produce more if you leave them less money to spend for doing so.

Personally, I think California should be allowed to completely collapse economically as a monument to socialism and as a warning to the rest of the nation of the complete failure of the socialist economic welfare system, which we seem to be adopting at break-neck speed in this country.