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To: tejek who wrote (306878)	10/18/2006 7:25:26 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576826

Ted, > The problem with California is that its taxes aren't high enough. More accurately, you think the taxes in California aren't high enough to deal with its unique problems. After all, why do residents of Washington State end up paying fewer taxes? Because they have less pressing problems. Proposition 13 is not as big of a drain on tax revenues as you might imagine, since in a rising real estate market, all it does is postpone the increase on property taxes to when home ownership changes hands. > The other huge problem is that residents looked the other way when the illegal population began to grow......because they were addicted to cheap labor. The public cost of supporting the illegals has not been well documented but I suspect its high. I've seen an estimate of $5B a year that has been tossed around. Of course, illegal immigrant advocates contend that the estimate doesn't take into account the cost savings of having dirt cheap labor around and the benefits that are reaped from it. Tenchusatsu