since Calif. is earthquake country, it is wise to plan for earthquakes. that means having money
to repair infrastructure in the event of a bigger quake.
right now Calif. is more vulnerable to a large quake than maybe, ever.
if a big quake hit, and did $10 to $100 billion worth of damage, where would the money for
re-construction come from ?
to repair infrastructure in the event of a bigger quake.
right now Calif. is more vulnerable to a large quake than maybe, ever.
if a big quake hit, and did $10 to $100 billion worth of damage, where would the money for
re-construction come from ?
Steeplerot
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They should just use the budget from 2000. Good enough during Clinton's time, good enough now. Should slash about $30 billion.
OMG a whole $8 per hour? You might even be able to afford a burger for lunch on that.
Meanwhile illegals make anywhere from $10 per hour up to $25 per hour.
Somehow $8 per hour is killing our economy?
How about the $200k per year fireman and huge police and prison guard pensions.
That's what's killing California.
Google Vallejo bankruptcy.
JeepinEd
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Yeah, it's great when our representatives try to circumvent the law :disgust:
California has the highest taxes in the country, but that's not enough for them. They want to tax us even more. No wonder businesses are leaving in droves. Some of my top accounts have now left the state, mostly for NV and AZ. Hilton is getting ready to leave as well.
How is it that our legislators can increase spending by 50% over the last five years, but they can't seem to be able to make any cuts?
That was the biggest fail post other than the Prison Guards union having this state bent over backwards. I will agree with you on that.
If you cant afford what you want on minimum wage, do something to better yourself. Having extra money in the bank is not a right.
Causing businesses to leave and outsource only adds fuel to the fire.
Is the $8 minimum wage causing businesses to leave California? BS.
Find me one business that left California over the $8 minimum wage.
Zebo
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Would be interesting to see if you'd held same position if Republicans were in majority. I somehow doubt that. I think it's good minority has a powerful say. All these years worked just fine and built California into richest state. It's only this market and Cal being highly dependent on RE ever increasing which makes them feel the pain more than most ATM. If Democrats had a clue they would open the coasts up to exploration to fund their projects and be like Texas with Billions in surplus. But they control the process, Republicans can only say yea or nay, and Democrats would rather chase 1 million out than drill one well.
No company says "Im leaving because of minimum wage".
They say: "We are closing our California operations due to labor costs" or "We are moving our operations to place XYZ to cut operating expenses" blah blah.
Come on, dont play stupid.
You're the one who mentioned the minimum wage, stupid.
And if you can't pay your people $8 per hour in this day and age, you don't have a business.
And California is surrounded by parasiste states like Arizona and Nevada, that are constantly trying to steal our business with property tax breaks and giveaways to corporations. Corporations that have no loyalty to anyone or anything, except profits.
When the next state offers a better deal, they will just pull up and move again.
Thank you... I don't mind firemen making $$$ but the prison guard unions need to go to hell. I say Ahnuld should outsource our prison system to Russia.
Yea, those damn businesses trying to maximize profits and not give tax money away to a shitty government like California! Damn those smart businesses!
Wow, you really must be from up North. Blaming businesses for wanting to keep more of thier money. Holy crap.
I'm not blaming businesses for wanting to keep their money. I'm blaming greedy assholes that have no loyalty to their employees, state or locality, and will dump them at the slightest chance to make a few more bucks.
I hope your ass gets laid off and you get replaced by an Indian. Then you can retrain for a new career. It's so easy right? You just have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Just don't try to attend one of the world-class universities here in California. You know, the ones run by our shitty government.
What about the greedy assholes and quazi-socialists like you in government, that think they know what to do with our money better than we do?
CA got caught with its hand in the cookie jar. And your "world class universities" are going to have some major issues with public funding when CA goes completely bankrupt
JeepinEd
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And they are doing the exact opposite.
Here is a highly abbreviated example of how California treats businesses:
My company uses independent contractors.
The EDD decided they are not getting enough taxes because of that, so they audited us and fined us over $130K.
We appealed to the EDD's Administrative Law Judge.
The judge ruled in our favor.
The EDD said that's nice, we don't care what the ALJ said, so we're overriding him. Now you have 1 year to pay up!
Since we can't afford lawyers to appeal to a "real" court, we've had to lay people off and will now have to change our business model to meet their desires. Whether or not we'll survive remains to be seen. If we go under, that's over 50 people losing their jobs.
Our IC model has been accepted by all the other states in the Union and was accepted here until the EDD changed it's mind. There is no oversight and unless you have really deep pockets, there is nothing that you can do.
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
What about the greedy assholes and quazi-socialists like you in government, that think they know what to do with our money better than we do?
CA got caught with its hand in the cookie jar. And your "world class universities" are going to have some major issues with public funding when CA goes completely bankrupt
Didn't Orange County already go bankrupt? Maybe you can give us some pointers on what not to do?
This is going to make your hippy head spin, so you may want to sit down:
Dont spend more than what you can bring in tax revenue wise :Q
Dont have outrageous tax rates that drive businesses to other states
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