Blue-state GOP blasts Dem Governor over surprise $7B budget deficit increase | Fox News
The budget deficit is actually $7 billion worse than his initial projections, bringing the total shortfall to nearly $74 billion! https://foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-gop-blasts-dem-gov-surprise-7b-budget-deficit-increase…#FoxNews
In January when we start deporting all illegals, California will save $5 Billion a year. California should be forced to rebate half of that ($2.5 billion) to the US treasury.
From 11/7 to about 11/14 they were averaging about 20,000-25,000 ballots per hour.
After a crazy spike during the day of 11/15 to a rate of 64,000 ballots/hour, they slowed down dramatically to between about 2,000-6,000 ballots/hour for the majority of this past week. They only recently picked it up again to 14.5k ballots/hour for the period between 2:23pm and 6:34pm pacific time today.
1) I don’t get the spike, seems like that must be an error. If not, that’s potentially a red flag in the reporting
2) I have no idea why the pace would slow so dramatically when the ballots left are dwindling.
It seems like they are almost trying to draw this out as long as possible.
Wake Up America, This Is The Cost Of Voting Democrat
“Gavin Newsom and California Democrats are spending $5 billion this year to give free healthcare to all illegal immigrants”
Climate change caused an increase in homelessness in California by 37% and $24Billion to disappear into thin air. Climate change caused a $100Billion surplus to turn into a $73Billion deficit in 365 days. Now your kids won’t get a quality education in California. They can fund LGBTQ initiatives to be forced into the curriculum though, rest assured, the money they’re pulling from schools won’t affect that. “To balance the budget, they’re proposing to cut $500 million to school facilities”
Thousands FLEE California because of its HORRIFIC school systems.
My son is disabled and normally gets “ESY” summer school but they basically cancelled it this year. They are literally taking away funding from disabled kids to give it to illegal invaders.
“The State is facing an almost $73 billion deficit”
The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. While there are many ways to show how much is collected in taxes by state governments, the Index is designed to show how well states structure their tax systems and provides a road map for improvement.
The 10 best states in this year’s Index are:
The absence of a major tax is a common factor among many of the top 10 states. Property taxes and unemployment insurance taxes are levied in every state, but there are several states that do without one or more of the major taxes: the corporate income tax the individual income tax or the sales tax Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming have no corporate or individual income tax (though Nevada imposes gross receipts taxes); Alaska has no individual income or state-level sales tax; Florida has no individual income tax; and New Hampshire and Montana have no sales tax.
This does not mean, however, that a state cannot rank in the top 10 while still levying all the major taxes. Indiana and Utah, for example, levy all the major tax types but do so with low rates on broad bases.
The 10 lowest-ranked, or worst, states in this year’s Index are:
- Rhode Island
- Hawaii
- Vermont
- Minnesota
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Connecticut
- California
- New York
- New Jersey
The states in the bottom 10 tend to have a number of afflictions in common: complex, nonneutral taxes with comparatively high rates. New Jersey, for example, is hampered by some of the highest property tax burdens in the country, has the highest-rate corporate income taxes in the country, and has one of the highest-rate individual income taxes. Additionally, the state has a particularly aggressive treatment of international income, levies an inheritance tax and maintains some of the nation’s worst-structured individual income taxes.
Table 1. 2024
State Business Tax Climate Index Ranks and Component Tax Ranks
| State | Overall Rank | Corporate Tax Rank | Individual Income Tax Rank | Sales Tax Rank | Property Tax Rank | Unemployment Insurance Tax Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 39 | 19 | 33 | 50 | 17 | 15 |
| Alaska | 3 | 26 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 48 |
| Arizona | 14 | 22 | 9 | 41 | 11 | 10 |
| Arkansas | 38 | 28 | 37 | 44 | 24 | 24 |
| California | 48 | 45 | 49 | 47 | 22 | 30 |
| Colorado | 27 | 7 | 13 | 40 | 38 | 44 |
| Connecticut | 47 | 30 | 46 | 23 | 50 | 26 |
| Delaware | 21 | 50 | 43 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| Florida | 4 | 11 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 4 |
| Georgia | 32 | 9 | 35 | 28 | 28 | 34 |
| Hawaii | 42 | 18 | 47 | 26 | 31 | 41 |
| Idaho | 16 | 27 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 47 |
| Illinois | 37 | 43 | 14 | 39 | 45 | 42 |
| Indiana | 10 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 25 |
| Iowa | 33 | 29 | 22 | 15 | 41 | 32 |
| Kansas | 26 | 21 | 27 | 29 | 18 | 16 |
| Kentucky | 18 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 23 | 46 |
| Louisiana | 40 | 34 | 29 | 48 | 21 | 13 |
| Maine | 34 | 35 | 26 | 8 | 46 | 29 |
| Maryland | 45 | 33 | 45 | 34 | 42 | 43 |
| Massachusetts | 46 | 36 | 44 | 14 | 47 | 50 |
| Michigan | 11 | 20 | 12 | 12 | 26 | 7 |
| Minnesota | 44 | 47 | 42 | 31 | 32 | 31 |
| Mississippi | 20 | 8 | 19 | 25 | 37 | 5 |
| Missouri | 12 | 3 | 20 | 30 | 9 | 3 |
| Montana | 5 | 23 | 28 | 3 | 19 | 22 |
| Nebraska | 30 | 31 | 32 | 9 | 40 | 9 |
| Nevada | 7 | 25 | 5 | 45 | 4 | 45 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | 44 | 10 | 1 | 43 | 40 |
| New Jersey | 50 | 48 | 48 | 43 | 44 | 37 |
| New Mexico | 23 | 13 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 11 |
| New York | 49 | 24 | 50 | 42 | 49 | 39 |
| North Carolina | 9 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 6 |
| North Dakota | 17 | 10 | 21 | 32 | 7 | 14 |
| Ohio | 36 | 39 | 40 | 36 | 5 | 12 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | 4 | 24 | 38 | 15 | 2 |
| Oregon | 28 | 49 | 41 | 4 | 20 | 38 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | 41 | 23 | 16 | 14 | 21 |
| Rhode Island | 41 | 40 | 31 | 22 | 35 | 49 |
| South Carolina | 29 | 6 | 30 | 33 | 36 | 27 |
| South Dakota | 2 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 30 | 35 |
| Tennessee | 15 | 42 | 6 | 46 | 33 | 20 |
| Texas | 13 | 46 | 7 | 37 | 39 | 8 |
| Utah | 8 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 8 | 17 |
| Vermont | 43 | 38 | 39 | 17 | 48 | 18 |
| Virginia | 25 | 16 | 34 | 10 | 29 | 36 |
| Washington | 35 | 37 | 8 | 49 | 25 | 19 |
| West Virginia | 22 | 17 | 25 | 24 | 10 | 33 |
| Wisconsin | 24 | 32 | 38 | 6 | 16 | 28 |
| Wyoming | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 34 | 23 |
| District of Columbia | 48 | 30 | 48 | 38 | 50 | 38 |
Note: A rank of 1 is best, 50 is worst. Rankings do not average to the total. States without a tax rank equally as 1. DC’s score and rank do not affect other states. The report shows tax systems as of July 1, 2023 (the beginning of Fiscal Year 2024). Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2024 | Cato Institute
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Source: Tax Foundation.