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To: tejek who wrote (231453)	5/4/2005 11:33:24 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583541

Bottom line: CA doesn't have low tax rates. Texas has low tax rates and it's infrastructure is falling apart faster than Californias.

To: tejek who wrote (231453)	5/4/2005 1:31:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583541

CA's problems did not start with Gray Davis. You forget I lived there for a several years well before Davis was governor. If they started before he was governor than it was particuarly stupid for him to increase spending by such a great amount. It doesn't have enough income to pay its bills because its bills are too high because the government spent too much money. If that were true, then the infrastructure would not be falling apart as consistently as it is. Infrastructure is far from the only thing CA spends money on. Also spending on infrastructure isn't automatically effcient effective spending on infrastructure. Bottom line: CA doesn't have low tax rates. It depends on which survey you look at......most surveys show CA in the middle edging towards high. No survey shows CA with low tax rates. They range from just above middle to one of the highest, but "just above middle" isn't low. But again, its a moot point if the tax revenue is insufficient to pay its bills. Not having enough to "pay the bills" doesn't mean that tax income is low, in CA's case it means the bills are too high. pacificresearch.org townhall.com