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To: anachronist who wrote (168850)	12/3/2008 8:22:58 PM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I don't think I have any crisp link I can give you, but it is based on my general reading over the years. Do you have an alternate explanation for the high taxes in CA? Public school spending per pupil is one of the lowest in the nation, the roads are among the worst in the nation, and I'm not aware of any other area of public spending which is noticeably excessive per recipient in CA compared to many other states. (I'm excluding Texas and some other compassion-challenged places from that.) We do have a lot of jails and some overpaid prison guards, I guess. Public sector retirement plans are way excessive, but that's true in most states. If you do have another explanation, I'm actually pretty interested to hear it. Happy to revise my ideas if they're wrong.

To: anachronist who wrote (168850)	12/3/2008 10:58:46 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

It is know to be one of the biggest reasons for California expenditures. Hard data would be politically incorrect, however. Here's the budget. ebudget.ca.gov If we look at California's budget, we see the big items are K-12 education 46 B, heath & human services 39 B, corrections (prisons)10 B. That's 96 out of 144 B. Here's a summary that dances around hard numbers. ccsce.com For all immigrants - Figure about 20% of the K-12, 30% of the health & human services, and maybe 35% of corrections. That's about 25 B roughly, or about 17% of the total 144 B budget. The actual numbers may be higher or lower. The illegal immigrants are at least half of this problem.