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bluestate10

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2. Prop 2 killed California. A Prop was passed in the last election to raise taxes to fund schools.

Reply to LukeFL (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 01:15 PM

Dec 2012

Another problem that California has is that it sends close to one half of every federal tax, Medicare and Medicaid dollar collected from state residents to red states - this is a problem with every blue state except two, all but two blue states are big tax donors.

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What Happened with California? [View all] LukeFL Dec 2012 OP

They passed a law that made it virtually impossible to raise taxes. Walk away Dec 2012 #1

Prop 2 killed California. A Prop was passed in the last election to raise taxes to fund schools. bluestate10 Dec 2012 #2

Two things. gcomeau Dec 2012 #3

That was very informative. LukeFL Dec 2012 #4

Personally... gcomeau Dec 2012 #5

Not to mention Ahnold montanto Dec 2012 #6

By and large, I would say it started with Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13 in 1978. Buns_of_Fire Dec 2012 #7