Number One In Poverty, California Isn't Our Most Progressive State -- It's Our Most Racist One

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Forbes
Michael Shellenberger
May 31, 2018

Everyone thinks California is our most progressive state. And why not? It imposes the highest tax on the richest one percent. It is aggressively implementing Obamacare. And it is standing up to President Donald Trump on everything from immigration to the environment.

And yet the Golden State is also number one in poverty and inequality in America.

How can this be? Around the world, progressive economies like those of Sweden, France, and Germany, which redistribute wealth through high taxes and generous social welfare policies, boast far less poverty and inequality than other nations.


What gives? And how does California maintain its reputation as a progressive leader given the reality on the ground?

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[WingNot]

How can this be?

Ah. Hard to imagine.
Well it's easy if you try,

[endicom]

Ah. Hard to imagine.
Well it's easy if you try,

What's interesting is that the author is a Democrat.

[WingNot]

What's interesting is that the author is a Democrat.

I was channeling a dead socialist .  But today that is the same thing as a dem!

[Free Vulcan]

A great expose of progressivism. Big claims and shiny lights hiding the glaring economic gap that results in killling off the middle class, leaving the elites and the welfare addicts at either end.