Believe it or not, we’re being pick-pocketed by the government! Should that really come as such a shock! For every dollar that we (the tax paying public) spent in 2004, 79 cents went back to the state in spending. In other words, there was a $51 billion shortfall, which according to the California Institute of Policy Research, is the largest in the nation.
Here is how we are being pickpocketed. States like Alabama, Virginia, and Maryland actually get more back than they put in. And how does that work? The government takes money from California taxes and reroutes it to other states, which also accounts for federal salaries and highways.
The November ballot for this year proposes a $37 billion state bond that would go towards highways, parks, schools, as well as a number of other things. It seems like a fair deal so long as our wise and wonderful leaders in Washington D.C. distributes the money fairly. There are those who think our (California) taxes should be going towards other issues within the state. Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuez feels that President Bush is using this great state of ours like an ATM — we pay it in and he takes it out. Our...
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