Stockton and the whole central valley is as conservative and red as it gets. They're also backwards dumb fucks so it's not surprising the right wing nutjobs out there can't run a city government. The small government rhetoric just doesn't work in reality. They could easily solve their budget problems with a 1% increase in property taxes but all the trailer trash (and make no mistake that's who moves out there because they can't afford to live in a decent place) all chant "I won't pay no taxes" so their kids go to shit schools, there are no cops, and they get exactly what they deserve. BTW Muad's a complete idiot for not knowing the central valley is red as red can be. Everyone knows that.
Yup. Get a few miles away from the coast in California and you're in Hillbilly Heaven. Pickup trucks, country music, confederate flags ... ... the works.
That's not us. We pray, but we don't read poetry and think positive energy. That's smellie hippie stuff, man.
If you think those red necks are hippies then you don't have the slightest clue what a real hippy is. That doesn't really surprise me though because you know so little about so many subjects... Well, what's one more?
Uh oh. Better not be talking about California property taxes. KIRK1ADM might come out of retirement and rant at you. And yeah, the Central Valley is extremely conservative. You'd never know you were in the same state as LA and SF.
California actually has one of the lowest property tax rates in the country. Even Texas has higher property tax rates.
Yep, and one of the reasons the rest of the tax code is a mess and why education funding is fucked. Prop 13 was a disaster.
So did I. This means there is actually a place in the United States more miserable than Detroit. That takes some doing.
Muad Dib threads are hilarious. It's probably unintentional but he makes America sound like the biggest shithole on the planet. "Take that, Somalia!"
"Delectable snow-cone trampolines strut with tangerine varnish magnets along an exponentially opaque tothbrush....."
California takes in HUGE amounts of revenue and they've totally mismanaged that. Were Prop. 13 not in place, they would undoubtedly mismanage even more... The legislator's job is to enact policy consistent with the revenues the public is willing to pay. That policy-makers in Stockton, California, and the United States have failed to do so is not the fault of the public's unwillingness to pay; it's the fault of the policymaker's denial of reality by spending much, much more than they actually have.
