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We can't effectively manage a budget, give us more money!
Actually, California's budget is balanced and it expects a surplus in two years. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/us/california-balances-its...
I'll be proud of California if it works out, but I have my doubts.
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> applicability only to criminal cases Where do you get that? The Constitution says simply: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." Period, end of story. Just because someone on the Internet says this applies only to criminal law doesn't make it so.
How about the US Supreme Court: See Carpenter v. Pennsylvania, 58 U.S. 456 (1854): "The debates in the federal convention upon the Constitution show that the terms "ex post facto laws" were understood in a restricted sense, relating to criminal cases only, and that the description of Blackstone of such laws was referred to for their meaning. 3 Mad.Pap. 1399, 1450, 1579. This signification was adopted in this Court sh…
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Don't get me wrong, we will eventually get to the spot Europe is in if we don't make changes to our health care services of one type or another. We have however shown a remarkable ability to vote for people that tell us we can't afford things we can't afford. We took drastic austerity measures in the 90's and we actually voted for it - twice. I'm not too worried about our finances, once people get the numbers in fron…
A cohort of reasonable voters? You just keep racking up reasons to move there...
The reason why Vancouver is so bad for housing is because wealthy foreign investors see Vancouver as a stable store of value for their money. It's a complicated bank account for large sums of money.
Alberta is the money making place to be in Canada, since the resource industry & banking drives over %50 of the TSX. Rent is also a lot better in Alberta. But Canada is not a country right now to be a techie compared to the USA. It's a great place to be in the oil industry although.
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Your state's gun laws prevent me from ever living there.
and you can't legally buy a Big Gulp. Seriously, and city/county/state govt that would do that, you can't trust them with your livelihood.
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Unfortunately, I think you'll see more of these problems as states get crushed under their existing debt and new expenditures from pension obligations, etc. See: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_spending_2...
Perhaps defined-benefit retirement plans should not be in the public sector since they haven't been in the vast majority of the private sector for quite some time.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Senate_Bill_5_Voter_Refere...
Come to New York! We're rolling in so much finance money we don't need to hit up small businesses.
Your state's gun laws prevent me from ever living there.
And there's the added benefit that if you learn some basic Spanish, you can hire illegal immigrant labor to do all your housework and gardening for a pittance (this can be done without knowing Spanish, but then you end up wasting money on a middleman, and there are other benefits to knowing Spanish in Texas anyway).
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Unfortunately, I think you'll see more of these problems as states get crushed under their existing debt and new expenditures from pension obligations, etc. See: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_spending_2...
Shove them (States) in between a rock and a hard place, and they pretty much run out of options. Not surprising.
...but the governments are on the side of the government workers (most government workers are unionized and these funds lobby the politicians).
The result is that it becomes an "us vs them" fight, and while common citizens may theoretically have political power through the ballot box, in practice power is mostly exercised through campaign donations and backroom deals, so the politicians are taking the decisions that they're incentivized to take: stealing seed corn and feeding it to the public sector employees.
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Indeed. Avoid eastern Michigan. Western Michigan is like a totally different state.
What are some good cities in Western Michigan?
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