California Becomes the State With the Highest Debt as Reliance on Taxpayers Backfires

[rangerrebew]

California Becomes the State With the Highest Debt as Reliance on Taxpayers Backfires
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California, one of the most populated states in the United States, never ceases to have pressing issues. The big state is currently battling with a huge debt that has reached approximately $21 billion.

The genesis of this huge debt can be traced back to the pandemic period when the state had to borrow a huge sum from the federal government to pay for unemployment benefits. Also, the state currently accounts for 20% of the nation’s unemployment, which contributed to the state’s financial problems.

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[SZonian]

Last I heard, the debt was somewhere around $60B, not $21B...someone's cooking the books.

[PeteS in CA]

Last I heard, the debt was somewhere around $60B, not $21B...someone's cooking the books.

The State of California has been cooking the books for so long that the books have transitioned from "hammered" to "whole burnt offering". $$ gets shuffled from one budgetary area to another. Gas tax and DMV fee $$ that should be used for road/highway building and maintenance has been funneled into Sacred Mass Transit boondoggles for decades (think Moonbeam 1.0). Teachers' and state employees' pension funds have been underfunded for decades.

This is a big part of why I was and am so POed that R Mo-o-o-o-o-oooooooderates ego-stroked Ahnold the RINO into running for governor in the Gray Davis recall. State Rep Tom McClintock would have won instead, and he knew where every budgetary skeleton-closet was and where every budgetary body was buried. Ahnold the RINO was a budgetary invertebrate!

[Hoodat]

McClintock would have been awesome.

[SZonian]

The State of California has been cooking the books for so long that the books have transitioned from "hammered" to "whole burnt offering". $$ gets shuffled from one budgetary area to another. Gas tax and DMV fee $$ that should be used for road/highway building and maintenance has been funneled into Sacred Mass Transit boondoggles for decades (think Moonbeam 1.0). Teachers' and state employees' pension funds have been underfunded for decades.

This is a big part of why I was and am so POed that R Mo-o-o-o-o-oooooooderates ego-stroked Ahnold the RINO into running for governor in the Gray Davis recall. State Rep Tom McClintock would have won instead, and he knew where every budgetary skeleton-closet was and where every budgetary body was buried. Ahnold the RINO was a budgetary invertebrate!

[Kamaji]

The State of California has been cooking the books for so long that the books have transitioned from "hammered" to "whole burnt offering". $$ gets shuffled from one budgetary area to another. Gas tax and DMV fee $$ that should be used for road/highway building and maintenance has been funneled into Sacred Mass Transit boondoggles for decades (think Moonbeam 1.0). Teachers' and state employees' pension funds have been underfunded for decades.

This is a big part of why I was and am so POed that R Mo-o-o-o-o-oooooooderates ego-stroked Ahnold the RINO into running for governor in the Gray Davis recall. State Rep Tom McClintock would have won instead, and he knew where every budgetary skeleton-closet was and where every budgetary body was buried. Ahnold the RINO was a budgetary invertebrate!

I am quite certain that NY and NYC engage in the same short of "data quality issues" as well.

[PeteS in CA]

I am quite certain that NY and NYC engage in the same short of "data quality issues" as well.

I'm sure other ultra-Blue states have done similarly. They've just hidden it better.