California courts on the right side?

[TAB]

CA is not even in the top 10 of per capita tax revenue...

that honor falls to Alaska. fallowed by vermont, hiwaii, wyoming and connecticut.


CA is ranked number 11... I know its very hard to beleave...

By % of income once again number 1 is Alaska fallowed by vermont, west virgina, and arkansa


we are ranked 14th in that respect.

Yes things are bad here, but they are worse other places.

[Rastus]

Per Capita, as you presented, is probably all taxes spread among the number of people.  Alaska get's huge per capita tax revenue from oil and gas production.  They were, recently, giving residents money and they had negative state taxes. 

Vermont is really bad, I don't know a about WV...but Arkansas.  I have land and some family in Arkansas.  They pay less tax then I did when I lived in Louisiana or now in Oklahoma.  One of my best friends, born and raised in California came and worked a very high paying job in Louisiana.  When he moved back, he took a huge hit.  Two of my great aunts lived in California until their death, hated the taxes as they escalated to satiate the socialist lurch in politics.

All I'm saying is, some portion of the data we as citizens are presented is sometimes twisted to give the impression of something it is not.  I worked for Chevron, knew a lot of people who did time in California....were most happy to move into Texas, Louisiana or other enviorns to escape the California tax burden.

Tab, there's got to be more to it than what you picked up...one of the guys I work with now moved down from the Alaska North Slope a couple of years ago...had no problem with their taxes.  Maybe you read the special rates for the people who have most of the money...lawyers, politicians, actors, etc. in California.   

And, to get back towards topic, why is it we cannot hold ourselves apart from deviant behaviour to maintain a moral standard we believe in that has been the standard since the birth of this nation? 

[Pathfinder]

CA is not even in the top 10 of per capita tax revenue...

that honor falls to Alaska. fallowed by vermont, hiwaii, wyoming and connecticut.


CA is ranked number 11... I know its very hard to beleave...

By % of income once again number 1 is Alaska fallowed by vermont, west virgina, and arkansa


we are ranked 14th in that respect.

Yes things are bad here, but they are worse other places.

None of the states you mentioned has a $42 BILLION  DEFICIT!!!! - CA does. Percentages don't matter in this case.

Hey folks, eye-opener here, it is part of the human condition to discriminate. When you're walking down a darkened street and 2 BG types are leaning against a car up ahead, our hand snakes to the CCW in our pocket, or we stop, go back or cross the street.  We discriminate when some people are our friends and other we just cannot get along with.

This issue was settled for the Boy Scouts in the 90's with a SCOTUS ruling that as a private organization, they are allowed to forbid homosexuals from being members, let alone leaders.

PoorSoul, if you disagree, fine. Ask yourself these questions
1. Can you ever be elected president of the National Organization of Women (assuming you are not a woman)?
2. Can you ever be elected president of the NAACP (assuming you are not black)?
3. Can you ever be elected president of your local Jewish synagogue (assuming you are not Jewish)?

You are being discriminated against in every case

As for the gummint disctating what you can do in return for "their" money, can the gummint tell you specifically how to spend the next "stimulus" check or your tax refund?

[TAB]

I know CA gets ~ 75% of its taxs from corperations. ( currently having 2 I can tell you, they are high compared to other states)  Why CAs income taxs are on the high sides, many of our other taxs like property is very low compared to other places.   Example my property  taxs in OR is almost 10x what it would be in CA, but that has to do with how they are calculated.  Its not fixed its based off the % value of your district. It can work for you and against you.   Example if you have a modest house in a city that is full of huge house it will help.  If your like me and have a improved property in an area that is almost entirely recreational property, you get skrewed.

As to why CA is in debt... atleast half of that is cuased by us having to pay for illegal aliens, the other half is over paid state workers...~ 50% of the state  employees are paid by the goverment one way or another.

I'm fine with them giving the boot to a pair of girls that they have proof they are lesbos, its if they don't have proof then it really ticks me off.

I remodeled a locker room for a local all girls catholic HS this year...  you want to talk about hard to keep your thoughts pure.   

[tombogan03884]

I think that kid got a pardon. It was a debacle what happened with him and the legal age thing was what got him. But I am pretty sure he got out a couple years ago.

Yes He did get out of it. But he was originally sentenced to something like 15 years.

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[ericire12]

you do have a choice on how your tax money is spent... its called elcetions. 

Spell check!

*Firefox has one built in. 

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Spell check!

*Firefox has one built in. 

Fire fox does not work well for sacs building departments web site. 

[tombogan03884]

Try "ie spell check", I'll have to get back to you with the link.

Fire fox does not work well for sacs building departments web site. 

Something I noticed when I lived there in 2000, the first State to go on line , by then had abunch of antiquated crap for "systems", must be even worse now.

I can't find it now, I deleted it when I switched to Firefox