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To: gamesmistress who wrote (23638)	8/17/2012 10:15:02 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

This is a comparison between US states and countries' nominal Gross Domestic Product. Many of the states of the United States have large Gross Domestic Product (called gross state product) which would rank highly on a list of countries world GDP. For instance, California would have the 8th highest GDP in the world if thought of as a country (not including the US as a whole, if so, it would be 9th). The lowest ranked US state, Vermont, would be 87th out of some 200 countries en.wikipedia.org "California’s combined income and sales taxes are among the nation’s highest" Yeah, cuz prop 213 fucked with property taxes. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the California budget... I was speaker of the assembly from 1998 to 2000. We have a smaller budget in the state today than we did in those years. With almost double the population of the state of new york. we have a budget about 45% smaller than new york. So when you look at what that means, cuts in public health, cuts in public safety and education, in higher education, it means that the people of l.a. and people all across the state aren't getting the services they need at a time when they really need those services. video.msnbc.msn.com