Not quite. That RW polemic overlooks too much that contradicts it.
CA still has a GDP greater than much of Red State America combined and it's Federal taxes go a long way toward subsidizing those 'takers'.
Please look to KS for the template for what Trump proposes....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/...c-disaster
CA still has a GDP greater than much of Red State America combined and it's Federal taxes go a long way toward subsidizing those 'takers'.
Please look to KS for the template for what Trump proposes....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/...c-disaster
Quote:'We are a cautionary tale': Kansas feels the pain of massive Trump-style tax cuts
In 2012, Kansas did what Donald Trump wants to do: it introduced huge tax cuts to try to boost growth. Today, the state is out of money – and residents are angry
Quote:
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/04/22/jerry-brow...47559.html
Brown began his speech with an allusion to his strange political career, then made a joke about how he might use the remnants of his campaign war chest (about $24 million) to push through a referendum abolishing term limits and thereafter run for a fifth term as governor. This was met with laughter, though later in the day California news outlets discussed the plausibility of the proposal, in a sign of how good things under Brown have been.
There was otherwise little occasion for laughter. The speech Brown delivered was short and relentlessly dour, fixated on the downturn sure to come. And whether caused by Chinese currency devaluation or the deflation of Silicon Valley’s bubble or maybe some other force malevolent and yet unseen, the downturn was as certain as a traffic jam in Los Angeles.
Illinois would not be ready and probably Florida would not be ready, but California would be, with its projected rainy-day fund of $2.23 billion by the end of June 2017.
Never during the State of the State did he explicitly mention the two projects that may define his legacy. The big ideas—water conservation, public transport—were fully subservient to the mundane challenges that, if not addressed, could have the commentariat likening California to Greece once more.
Only toward the very end of his speech did Brown allow for a loftier note, an allusion to the fact that California is not only special but exceptional, a nation unto itself, the end point of Manifest Destiny, the golden place at the end of the land, the Bear Flag Republic in comparison to which all other states are mere cubs.
“We dare to do,” he said, “what others only dream of.”
