[quote=bearishgurl][quote=CDMA ENG][quote=bearishgurl][quote=SD Realtor]In the end the complaint should really be what the hell is happening to the billions and billions of dollars in tax revenue. You are stepping over the dollar to get to the dime.[/quote]
What the hell is happening to CA’s tax revenue is this.
Unfunded mandates, including:
-emergency medical care for illegal immigrants
-public schooling for illegal immigrants
-justice-system costs for illegal immigrants
-CMS and unfunded MediCal payments
-Recently “enhanced” pensions of public employees
-Exorbitant salaries for permanent staff/administration in the CU/CSU systems
-Rental assistance programs
-benefits for public employees
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BG,
You seem to be going after the illegals here… Which I don’t have a problem with… But there is a large portion legal dead beats in this state and they are the far larger problem than the illegal one.
We should be concentrating on that one first!CE[/quote]
In other words, “legal deadbeats” are funded. Illegal immigrants aren’t. Therein lies CA’s primary “budget buster.”
Having spent the bulk of my adult life working in local government, I can tell you that Federal (unfunded) mandates to provide illegal immigrants with necessary services is a HUGE part of the SD City/County budgets for which they DO NOT receive ANY compensation or ENOUGH compensation from the Federal government.
If we didn’t have this problem, we could reduce state and local government by at least 25% and maybe 33% and still provide needed services to “legal” productive residents, “legal” otherwise “self-sufficient” residents and “legal deadbeats.”
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Why should we even take care of the legal deadbeats…
I have relatives in AZ that skilled at working the system…
And yes, they are down with “la raza”…
For healthcare, for medical assistance, and so forth. I guarntee if you took these things away from them they would go out and secure these services on thier own and by thier nickel. But why should they the state is providing better levels of care for them then they could themselves.
I think our goals are the same here but with different targets…
