Craigd,

One thing for sure,we,most of the country without high real estate taxes are subsidizing the ones like Kalif and NY who get that deduction for the high tax rate !


"In 1967, speaking in Long Beach, then-Governor Ronald Reagan outlined the guiding principles that would take California down the “right road.” He talked about it as the “road ahead to a better, more responsible, more meaningful life for all our citizens, a life in which they are allowed to develop and pursue their aims and ambitions to the fullest, without the constant interference and domination of big spending, big brother government.”

That is the kind of vision that brought businesses, large and small, to California because it embraced possibility and understood that the lynchpin of progress was to foster prosperity.
Today’s California is virtually unrecognizable.

A state that welcomed job creators now penalizes them.

A state that attracted businesses is now losing them.

A state that enabled millions of working families to prosper is now the one that just takes more and more away from them.

The inescapable reality is that California has lost some of its luster. It still has a world-class economy, but that is a legacy of the past century. Many of today’s best and brightest are looking elsewhere – discouraged by a high cost of living and a tax and regulatory climate that is hostile to entrepreneurship and the free market.

California has twice as many jobless workers as it had five years ago. The state’s income tax rate is the highest in the nation. The corporate income tax rate is America’s fifth highest. Californians pay an additional 53.5 cents per gallon in gas taxes. All-the-while, state government spending grew 35% per capita in just the past ten years.

So what changed? The State’s capital, Sacramento, is now a one Party town. Progressive
Democrats have dominated both houses of the state legislature for more than a decade.
Unchecked, they have legislated, taxed, and regulated with zeal. For this bunch, government is a means to an end. It exists to limit the excesses of the free market, to redistribute wealth, to advance a far-left social agenda.

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