[quote=Eugene]It’s always amusing to hear people rant about California, why it sucks and why we’re all better off living in Nebraska or Idaho or some other hellhole.

The most curious parts is that rants always come from two diametrically opposite directions.

Group #1 complains that we have wasteful government that spends money out the wazoo and they are going to leave because can’t take these insanely high taxes.

Group #2 complains that the state is falling apart because we have worst schools, because states like NY and CT spend twice as much per K-12 student as do we, that crime is rampant because our police departments don’t have enough money and people (thanks to prop 13) …

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Given our tax rate I’m surprised our per student spending is so low…oops, my bad – I forgot – most of the money is being spent to pay California teachers 30% higher than the national average and to fund their Golden parachutes – same goes for most other gov’t workers.