Comment by jadar
2 days ago
> [C]ritics estimate the lost revenue would have to be made up by roughly doubling the state sales tax
It is possible to just ... stop spending ...
2 days ago
> [C]ritics estimate the lost revenue would have to be made up by roughly doubling the state sales tax
It is possible to just ... stop spending ...
If you have specific suggestions for what spending to cut, by all means...
California spends an insane amount on combating homelessness with nothing to show for it. This is a difficult problem to solve for sure; I'm not an expert in this field and would be speaking out of turn were I to suggest preferable alternatives. Suffice it to say that billions of dollars are being flushed down the toilet doing whatever is being done right now.
No california has an NGO homeless industry, which gets paid on the amount of homelessness. They are incentivised on increasing homelessness, thus this is what they do.
High speed rail.
Exactly $0 of high speed rail infrastructure was funded by sales taxes. State dollars came from prop 1a and cap and trade funds. About 12B over a decade and a half for heavy engineering, land acquisition etc. if that money was not spent it would have a negligible impact on your taxes.
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