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Offline rangerrebew

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How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class: ‘Ruling elites have priced out the middle class,
« on: June 02, 2025, 06:44:53 am »
How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class: ‘Ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity & climate justice’
By Marc Morano
May 28, 2025
10:05 am
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/28/how-california-has-destroyed-its-middle-class/

California’s ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity and climate justice.

By Edward Ring
California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything they can to impose this punitive economic model on the rest of America. It’s a quasi-feudal system, with the entire population divided into aristocrats and serfs. The means to destroy the middle class is to engineer an unaffordable cost of living for households, and a regulatory environment that only huge corporations can afford to navigate. The moral justification for this destruction is to cope with the “climate emergency” and to achieve social “equity.”

While the Trump interregnum has slowed the march of neo-feudalism in the rest of America, in California, the plan continues to move relentlessly forward. If you’re extremely wealthy, California’s abusive cost of living is not a big concern, and you stay for the scenic beauty and abundant sunshine. If you’re extremely poor, you stay because California’s taxpayer-funded assistance programs—financial aid, food assistance, healthcare, and other support services—offer a lifestyle orders of magnitude better than what you may have previously endured in the barrios of Tegucigalpa or the suburbios of Maputo.

But if you’re not rich, and you’re not poor, but just work, pay taxes, and pay for everything you need with after-tax earnings and without government assistance, California is a hostile environment. The numbers on out-migration are unequivocal. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an astonishing 8.5 million people have moved out of California since 2010. In 2023 alone, the last full year for which estimates are available, 690,000 people left. In 2022, 818,000; in 2021, 841,000. No other state has sustained anywhere near this 15 years of unrelenting mass exodus.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/28/how-california-has-destroyed-its-middle-class-ruling-elites-have-priced-out-the-middle-class-replacing-opportunity-with-oppression-under-the-guise-of-equity-climate-justice/
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Re: How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class: ‘Ruling elites have priced out the middle class,
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2025, 05:34:17 pm »
An excellent article if you care to read more of it.

Once again, I will pose "The Ann Landers Question", rephrased:
(originally asked when a writer asked Ms. Landers whether she should get a divorce)

Would the United States be a better country with California... or withOUT it ...?
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Re: How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class: ‘Ruling elites have priced out the middle class,
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2025, 05:46:08 pm »
Same is happening in Massachusetts, but California is well in the lead.
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Re: How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class: ‘Ruling elites have priced out the middle class,
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2025, 11:23:24 pm »
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ―
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