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RocketDan Wrote: Jun 10, 2012 7:40 AM

Sadly, it might not self correct - at least in your lifetime. Many (myself included) of the more conservative Californians have left over the last decade. As taxes continue to increase, both responsible people and businesses leave at a faster rate. The remaining mix absolutely won't vote to end the government largesse. When LA begins to look more like Detroit (or Athens) and rioting results from any attempt to cut back on spending there won't be enough of a voting block left to correct itself. Get out while you can. There is great weather in parts of Texas, Florida, and other southern, right-to-work low ax places. Besides, FL really needs you. We get hundreds of thousands of NYers here that threaten to change it into ...well..NY!

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mark4teach Wrote: Jun 10, 2012 12:46 PM

I have 7 years before I retire, will be 63 by then. Will have taught school for 30 years by that time. I told my wife when we retire I want to leave Calif there use to be a law in Calif. that if you were a public school teacher, you retire then left the state you would still have to pay calif. state income tax. Thank god that no longer true. Otherwise I would be stuck in Calif.

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Hey California: Meet Wisconsin

It was one giant step for a man, and one giant leap toward fiscal sanity.

But the failed labor union recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was only a beginning. America needs a bunch more Scott Walkers, a whole lot more thoughtful, discerning voters – and we need California voters, in particular, to wake-up.

So California, meet Wisconsin. It’s the state where voters chose a Governor who, despite claims to the contrary, is neither “destroying workers’ rights” nor “killing democracy.” Governor Scott Walker has brought government labor costs in-line with private sector labor costs, and in so doing is...

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