Taxifornia: Liberals' Laboratory to Bankrupt America - Hardcover

Lacy, James V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618689886 ISBN 13: 9781618689887

Verlag: Post Hill Pr, 2014

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A Foreword
"By: Rep. Darrell Issa (49""th ""Congressional District of California), Chairman of the House"
"Committee on Oversight and Government Reform"
California.
No matter where you live, what you do, how much you earn, everyone has a picture in their mind of what the "Golden State" means to them.
To some, it's the home of companies at the forefront of innovation like Apple or Google. To others, it's where storied franchises such as the Los Angeles Lakers or the San Francisco 49ers play every week. For visitors, it's Disneyland, Hollywood, the Golden Gate, beaches, deserts, mountains, and wine.
California is a place where so many have come from somewhere else hoping to find a better quality of life. The Golden State - rich with opportunity.
My wife and I were no different.
We had a business that started at a kitchen table in Cleveland, Ohio that we wanted to grow and make into something bigger and long lasting.
California was a state that had everything: farmers and factories, teachers and scientists, entrepreneurs and immigrants. Potential was limitless. Success was celebrated. Hard work was expected. Government had limitations.
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 attracte

"One doesn't have to agree with everything in Jim Lacy's book to understand his basic thesis is correct: California is not healthy today because it taxes and spends too much, and liberal Democrats have had too much power for too long" - Senator Jim Brulte (Ret), Chairman, California Republican Party
"James Lacy courageously calls out the new special interests in California today--not oil companies or polluting businesses--rather, public employee unions like the SEIU and California Teachers Association for their massive spending on politics and lobbying that has created a dysfunctional state that taxes too much, spends too much, pays public employees too much, have created an untenable pension system that is bankrupting cities across the state, and that delivers among the worst educations of any state to its students. The important and timely Taxifornia explains how all Americans are losing as a result of California's one-sided political state." - Grover Norquist, President of Americans For Tax Reform
"In "Taxifornia", James Lacy gives a sobering look at the politics of California--what some call the harbinger of things to come for the rest of the nation. Documented in detail--with over 800 footnotes--Lacy renders together the hard facts of California's political landscape and details how special interests have overrun the state.
"Taxifornia" is a must read not just for Californians, but for all Americans concerned about our country." - Brian Calle, Opinion Editor, "Orange County Register"

Reseña del editor:

Liberalism is to blame for California's rotting economy.

The biggest and most important state in America was once a land of opportunity in a wonderful climate. But times have surely changed. Things have never been worse for California and its citizens. California's “one-party” domination of the liberal faction of the California Democratic Party and their union and environmental lobby cronies have wrecked havoc on California, and all Americans are losing as a result.

In Taxifornia, James V. Lacy identifies and examines the true causes of California’s decline.

Californians are victims of the heaviest taxation in all of America, and those high taxes are now steadily destroying the state’s economy. Tax-and-spend liberals who are in control have created a state that taxes and regulates more than any other state in the country, and have engineered a rotting economy with among the highest unemployment of any state in the nation. Its high taxes hurt all Californians by making the state too expensive for business to turn profitable. Business flight has become endemic. California’s over-regulation of businesses depresses employment in the state. A widely accepted tenet among liberal politicians, political science academics, and the media in California is that no development at all is a good thing.

It is a state that educates the worst but pays the best to its teachers, a place that is widely considered by most CEOs to be one of the worst locations in the nation to run a business, where local governments are going bankrupt, and where an out-of-control public employee pay and pension system threatens to gobble up and divert almost all available taxpayer resources to a point where cities and counties simply cannot afford to pay for police, fire, or road maintenance anymore.

California has an outdated environmental policy and an energy policy that makes the state almost totally dependent on one source of power: imported natural gas. It is a place where the public employee union worker who controls traffic in the Bay Area Rapid Transit District maintenance yard in poverty-stricken and near bankrupt Oakland is paid more annually than the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Top leaders of the California Republican Party readily acknowledge their party is in very deep trouble. Jim Brulte, the state chairman of the GOP and a respected veteran of the California Legislature, has identified the source of the GOP's sorry condition as a "failure to recognize changing demographics" and has said that Republicans have been too reluctant to venture into communities outside of their traditional power base. "If we want to be successful, we have to get outside of our comfort zone," Brulte said. "Too many Republican Party leaders or Republican elected officials spend all their time talking to the choir."

Having identified the problems correctly, Lacy offers observations--with over 800 footnotes--about what can be done to restore political balance in the state, as well as some rational ideas for how California can fix its economic problems. But the economic and political situation in California today is at such an extreme, whether California can ever return to the broad prosperity of the past and once again lead the nation, is a very open question.

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• Verlag: Post Hill Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1618689886
• ISBN 13: 9781618689887
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232