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    California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality

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    "If liberal policies actually made any sort of progress correcting the various inequities that they’re alleged to do, big government utopias like California would be progressive beacons of hope for the American left."
    Here's what Matt Margolis has to say less than two weeks before the Golden State chooses a new governor.



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    California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality

    By Matt Margolis October 26, 2018
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    In this Oct. 1, 2018 photo, Stormy Nichole Day, left, sits on a sidewalk on Haight Street with Nord (last name not given) and his dog Hobo while interviewed about being homeless in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

    In recent years, we’ve been hearing more and more about the problem of wealth inequality in America. To hear liberals explain the problem, Republicans want to steal from the poor and middle class, give that money to the rich, and with enough time the middle class will be gone, leaving just a small ruling class of the super-rich, and a large poor class.
    If liberal policies actually made any sort of progress correcting the various inequities that they’re alleged to do, big government utopias like California would be progressive beacons of hope for the American left. California, many believed, was so progressive and forward thinking that it would experiment with various social policies and the rest of the states would follow suit. Hence, the so-called “Golden Rule” of the nation was once “as California goes, so does the country.” So, how is California doing with the problem of wealth inequality?
    Not so good.
    Despite having the fifth-largest economy in the world, California is one of the worst states in the nation in terms of wealth inequality.
    It has both billions of dollars in Silicon Valley and rampant homelessness. Its efforts to eliminate poverty instead accentuates it, and its tax system inadvertently aids those who are already wealthy. With the middle class leaving in droves, California society represents a modern feudal system of robber barons and the poor.
    Despite all the wealth in the state and the Democrat control of state government, California actually ranks as the poorest state in the country after costs of living are factored in. A whopping 19 percent of Californians live below the poverty line. While California represents just 12 percent of the nation’s population, Californians represent a third of all Americans on welfare. The average monthly cost of rent in the state is 43 percent higher than the national average. Nearly a third of Californians spend more than half of their earnings on housing. The situation is made worse by skyrocketing energy costs. “Residents who can afford rent or a mortgage are on the hook for electricity rates burdened by green initiatives and regulation that grew 500 percent faster than the national average from 2011 to 2017.”
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    Traditional left wing prescriptions simply have not worked in the state, which an opinion column in the Los Angeles Times dubbed the “poverty capital” of the United States. Housing vouchers increase the cost of living. The number of those with no health insurance in California fell by more than half after the state expanded Medicaid, yet poverty remains near historic highs. California spends the third most per capita on welfare programs, yet its economy continues to fail the poor and middle class [...]
    The combination of government overreach and ineffective programs creates a brutal dichotomy of very rich and very poor. California is the fourth most unequal state in the union with so many homeless who face diseases like typhus and hepatitis. The number of people living on the streets in California increased by nearly 14 percent to more than 130,000 in 2017. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $70 billion, while San Franciscans have an app that helps them track human feces on the sidewalk.

    This problem isn’t limited to California. While Barack Obama was president, income inequality got worse nationwide—even as he claimed it was getting better.
    Liberals will continue to talk about income inequality as a problem they alone can fix, but the facts show that their policies exacerbate the problem rather than improve it. While left-wing policies hurt the middle class, thanks to President Trump, the middle class has finally started to see some relief. In fact, middle-class income is on the rise. The “Golden Rule” that as California goes, so does the nation is truly a scary prospect for those in the middle who struggled under Obama and don’t want to see the country go the way of California.

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    Cannot afford to live there. Car registration and insurance is through the roof. Healthcare, gas, food, rent is unaffordable!

    They are taxed to death! Billions spent on illegal aliens free stuff and their crime.

    Illegal aliens can afford it because they STUFF 20 people into one home, split the costs, and get on every FREE benefit they can TAKE!

    They live in filth and squalor where they come from and they live in it here by destroying and trashing neighborhoods living with 20 people in one home with cars and trash everywhere. They do not care what they trash. They trashed their own country and they come here and trash ours

    Now our people are homeless, living on the streets, and OUR own government has turned their backs on OUR citizens in FAVOR of illegal aliens and foreigners. WHY????
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    It's so sad to see what's happened to California.
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    ESCAPE FROM SF: New Tech Company Helps Residents ‘FLEE SAN FRANCISCO’

    posted by Hannity Staff - 10.23.18



    A new technology company is hoping to cash-in on San Francisco’s rampant crime and spiking housing costs; launching a new platform that helps Bay Area residents flee the region for “greener pastures.”
    ‘Leaving the Bay Area’ was created by long-time resident Scott Fuller earlier this year and hopes to help residents relocate due to “housing costs, endless traffic, and anti-straw fanaticism.”
    “Between high housing costs, endless traffic, and rising anti-straw fanaticism, more and more Bay Area residents are looking for greener, cheaper pastures,” writes the website.
    “In a lot of cases they might have a good job here, they might be making a good income, but the money just doesn’t go very far with the cost of living and how much they’re having to pay on their mortgage each month,” Fuller adds.
    A recent survey by the Bay Area Council found a stunning 46% of San Francisco residents planned on leaving the region within “the next few years.”
    Read the full story here.

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    ESCAPE FROM SF: New Tech Company Helps Residents ‘FLEE SAN FRANCISCO’

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