So California has huge unemployment and is going bankrupt. So their solution: raise taxes! Because that’s the problem with California: taxes just aren’t high enough.
“Come on! They’ve raised taxes in California! Let’s all move back there!”
We really need a policy where people who move out of California aren’t allowed to vote in another state for a decade or so. I know a lot of the people fleeing aren’t part of that idiocy, but we just can’t take that chance. We have to stop the spread of what’s destroying California. And then do the only sensible thing: Burn California down in an “accident” for its insurance money.
They learned that from NY pols.
The last 40 or so years have gone like this.
“Hmmm, we need more money to bribe our constituents. Let’s raise taxes!”
“Brilliant!”
“Tax receipts have gone down as businesses have left our state, let’s raise taxes!”
“Brilliant”.
“Tax receipts have gone down as more businesses have left out state, let’s raise taxes!”
“Brilliant!”
“Tax receipts keep going down even though we keep raising taxes. I know, let’s raise taxes!”
“Brilliant!”
Wash, rinse, leave for North Carolina, repeat.
This is why I found the recent story about California banning ex-gay therapy for teens amusing (as well as sad). This was touted as a great example for the rest of us, and all I could think was, “I’ll take my examples from a state that isn’t circling the drain, thanks.”
I see the same thing happening with yankees moving south. They move to more stable, prosperous states like Virginia, where we’ve balanced our budget for another year thanks to a responsible republican governor, and where we haven’t been hit as hard by the recession and unemployment because our state government isn’t run by democrat idiots, (for the most part.)
So these blue-staters move south to take advantage of the opportunities we’ve created… and promptly try impose the same kind of business-killing, economy-killing regulations that doomed their own states. It’s like they have no idea there’s any kind of cause-effect that government has on an economy.
Anyone moving to another state should be forced to admit why exactly they’re moving, what makes their old state suck and their new state rock, and then not be allowed to vote for anything that would change their new state for 10 yrs. They can vote for other stuff, but nothing that would fundamentally change the state they’re moving to. Because if you want to move from the high taxes of NY because high taxes suck, don’t come to Virginia and try to make it into another NY.
Caifornia is beyond saving, and the rest of the country is headed in the same direction.
Apparently, the brilliance of those Californians is a contagious disease. I recommend amputation – at the neck.
Hey now, don’t lump all of NY in with NYC. Upstate is completely different than Downstate. There are even plenty of us who want to separate into two states.
Yeah Rayfan87, I know. But…… NY still has some of the worst pols in the country.
I left for a reason. The problem, wherever I go more NYers follow and then vote for the same types of pols who destroyed NY. It’s embarrassing.
Can’t we take some of the stimulus package and fund a huge NIH grant effort to clone the DNA of Ronald Reagan? I know gene therapy remains controversial but I would be willing to risk a few transplants into the bodies of all blue state governors (and a few red state governors as well). Naturally this medical procedure would be mandatory for all members of Congress and whatever federal employees remain after the purge.
Before we burn down Cailifornia, make sure that Governor Moonbeam Has kept the insurance paid up.
I read this aloud to my dad, who retorted “who was foolish enough to insure California?”
#2 – Zaklog the Great,
If they’re banning a therapy that tried to change gay behavior, are they saying that they don’t believe that human behavior can ever be changed?
If human behavior can’t be changed, why do we still have prisons?
The American experiment in “rehabilitation” of criminals must therefore be an impossible dream and should also be banned.
What to do with all the criminals?
Well, there’s always Congress, but they probably don’t want the competition.
I guess that leaves execution, farming body parts, slavery or deportation.
@11 – OO! Body parts!
I’m getting old, so I’ll need some spares 🙂
We really need a policy where people who move out of California aren’t allowed to vote in another state for a decade or so.
Hey, watch that! I was living in California two and a half years go!
Anyone doing business with California should seriously try to move away from having the state as a customer. Holding a net 30 days term invoice to the state is a high-risk proposition.
I’ve been living in Commiefornia for 18 years. I’m proud to say that after the first week of November that will no longer be true. I am moving my family to another state. Another middle class taxpayer leaving. Before I go however my wife and I will for the first time vote “yes” on every single ballot measure. You want higher taxes… Good luck with that.
CCW applications will be filed with our new state if residence before the end of November cause xmas is coming and nothing says “merry xmas” like a new .40
4of7, “if human behavior can’t be changed, why do …” they want to raise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products? Why do they want to raise taxes on alcohol? Why does the Affordable Care Act impose a
taxpenaltytaxpenaltytax on not purchasing medical insurance?“What to do with all the criminals?” Upon second felony conviction … firing squad, without regard to race, sex, or age.
on yeah….Los Angeles just gave up on trying to enforce a ban on stores that sell pot. That’s right – they’re simply giving up because there’s like almost a thousand of these shops and they’re not sure how to enforce the law. So…how about we go in and open a thousand gun shops that sell firearms that are legal under Federal laws and comply only with Federal waiting periors and registration requirements….think they’d just give up and stop enforcing their archane and opressive gun laws?
“Determinism is not inconsistent with the cruel treatment of criminals. What it is (perhaps) inconsistent with is the generous treatment of criminals; with any appeal to their better feelings or encouragement in their moral struggle. The determinist does not believe in appealing to the will, but he does believe in changing the environment. He must not say to the sinner, “Go and sin no more,” because the sinner cannot help it. But he can put him in boiling oil; for boiling oil is an environment.”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
Oh yeah, I forgot the 5th alternative, boiling oil.