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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (484148)5/29/2009 5:29:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574017
 
Several times in the past 15 years, the state gov't has had to borrow money from the cities to fund state operations. In other words, Prop 13 has forced the state to raid local coffers.

Your premise doesn't logically lead to your conclusion. This is esp. true since Prop 13 limits property tax, a local tax, so its not just that your premise doesn't lead to your conclusion, it pretty much has no connection to your conclusion.

California is strangling to death because of some asshole wingers from the 1970s.........may they not rest in peace.

Reducing increases in taxes, isn't "strangled to death". High taxes are closer to that idea than low taxes, but even if low taxes where "strangling" the simple fact is that even with Prop 13 CA doesn't have low taxes.

As the largest state in the union

"On a per capita basis" takes care of that objection. In absolute terms CA isn't in the middle of the pack in property tax collections, its near, perhaps at the top.

HOWEVER, what growth in revenue that has occurred has not been able to keep up with the needs of the population.

The growth of revenue and the growth of spending equaled or exceeded the growth of the state. California's government does much more than it did in the past, and spends a lot more doing it. If the money doesn't actually meet the needs of the residents it must be because it is spent inefficiently or spent on things other than important needs of the people in the state, or because your using needs so broadly that no state would meet the people's needs by your definition.
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