on May 13, 2025, 3:00 pm, in reply to "I guess you'd have to find a Red State in which the circumstances were"
Answer is almost none.
California like the US has a massive debt. However it has revenue that pays the debt without causing an annual deficit from carry over of more debt than revenue. Should stimulate a great big yawning, "So what?"
The stupid republicans who love to bring up the topic of debt literally don't know their asses from holes in their asses. However tax cuts deplete revenue, which causes deficit growth and carryover. The felon's tax cuts in his first term stimulated growth of the deficit to an all time record $4.5 trillion. Biden's policies reduced the deficit to about $1.2 trillion before the repeat of trump threatens to do it again.
W Bush did this, and took a balanced budget that produced a surplus in 2000 which he refunded to taxpayers through the Bush rebates, and grew it to a deficit by the end of his terms to $3.2 trillion deficit. Then, the highest ever. Obama policies reduced that deficit to about $800 billion.
For as much as you republicans talk about your so called knowledge and expertise with money, I am astonished about how effing illiterate most of you are on the topic. That especially includes your six time bankrupt convicted felon y'all put in charge for another effort to bankrupt the country.
His, he and Musk, massive firings may have saved a few billion dollars initially by reduction of payroll. However most of those fired were specialists, and there is no talent pool from which to hire replacements. Cost of training new hires makes doge dogi. Government INEFFICIENCY.
The California economy is 4th largest in the world, and it is healthy.
California has a housing problem, and the chief cause is climate and greed.
Republican government is too stupid to get out of its own way, and the unconstitutionality of many executive orders is mired in the courts for a period of time sufficient for the population to replace the do-nothing legislative branch with one who actually defends the US Constitution instead of doing nothing because something might make the felon and MAGA mad at them.
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