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California breakup plan would create rich and poor states: report
[REUTERS] A long-shot proposal to break Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, into six separate states would also divide rich and poor, according to a legislative analysis released on Wednesday.
Oh tut tut. They're the poorest regions now, so rather than cutting loose and trying to fix things they should keep doing what they're doing? That's kinda the definition of Caliphornia politix, ain't it?
It would formally relieve the wealthy in Silicon Valley from supporting all the poor folks, and you can bet that they'd pull their support in a New York minute...
The plan, which supporters hope to put before voters as a ballot initiative this November, is backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Tim Draper, who submitted 1.3 million signatures in favor of his proposal to Secretary of State Debra Bowen last month.

"At least initially - and perhaps for many decades after their creation - the six proposed new states would have widely varying income levels," said the report by Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor.

The wealthiest of the proposed new states would be "Silicon Valley," comprised of the affluent, pricey tech hub near San Jose, along with the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
That state would have a per capita income of $63,288, twice that of the poorest region and a third higher than Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s current per capita income of $46,477. A state of Silicon Valley would bring in $2,168 per person annually in income taxes, the report showed.

The poorest of the new states, to be carved out of the agricultural Central Valley, would have a per capita income of $35,510 and bring in $472 in income taxes per resident. Jefferson, to be carved out of the northernmost Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, region near the Oregon border and named after the third U.S. president, would have per capita income of $36,147, and garner income tax of $463 per person per year.
Posted by: Fred 2014-08-14
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