Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

Post by taeric » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:14 AM UTC

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I can't claim you are wrong. But I do question when the evidence is so murky. A lot of what folks think they want in efficient systems are systems that would fail because of how efficient they were run. That is, what evidence do you have that the success is in spite of government? Is there a comparable government or system that is doing better? Why? Or why not?

Bullet train: despite earthquakes and mountains, Japan runs a pretty decent network of high speed trains. Politics, well documented by the papers, show how a high speed train had repeated stops added to it, and was slowed down in California to the speed of a regular train while costing much more. Despite adding an additional 1.0% tax to fund mental health, homelessness has only increased in California. Efforts to red…

Post by pyuser583 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:16 AM UTC

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High taxes on newcomers. Nearly nonexistent taxes on dynastic families.

California income tax has no carve outs for capital gains so I don’t know where you got that idea. Rich people specifically don’t like California because of the taxes (as compared to other No or low income tax states). I assume you are referring to property taxes, but undoubtedly any “dynastic” family is going to have more tax liability from income than from property value.

Post by renewiltord » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:16 AM UTC

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It's a mix. California has at least some reasons for why it is a tech haven: non-competes unenforceable; well-supported state university system California also gets a lot wrong that interferes with tech: prop 13 and friends, housing policy, incredible corruption, massive local conservatism But California is most like America as a microcosm: horrifically corrupt but such a powerhouse that it resembles a leviathan that…

> California also gets a lot wrong that interferes with tech: … incredible corruption… Indeed, it is literally “incredible”. What passes for corruption in California wouldn’t even be worth noticing on the older states of the east coast, especially the north east. I’ve lived in both.

Post by TedShiller » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:17 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #54

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I can’t relate at all to that sentiment. California has got to be one of the most bloated and wasteful state governments in the entire US. High taxes and nothing to show for it. The entrenched far left seems bent on destroying the middle class, driving out business, regulating everything to death and displacing merit as a selection factor. Whatever glory Cali has— tech, entertainment, farming, weather, natural beauty…

I don’t think that’a entirely fair. California is the product of good governance during the 1950s-1980s. There is public infrastructure, like good schools and universities, that needs to be laid to attract industry in the first place. California probably wouldn’t the what it is without the UC system, for example. Of course that was a very different California.

Post by bogota » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:19 AM UTC

pyuser583 wrote: post #120

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I don’t think that’a entirely fair. California is the product of good governance during the 1950s-1980s. There is public infrastructure, like good schools and universities, that needs to be laid to attract industry in the first place. California probably wouldn’t the what it is without the UC system, for example. Of course that was a very different California.

Don’t forget about massive defense spending, and middle class relocations to California.