California is a complex problem, that is inching closer to less than 1st world standards...
Homelessness aside, there are MANY reasons Cali is failing.
The government pension problem and state government in general is the reason things will get worse.
California is turning into a place where you are either really rich, or really poor and no in between.
This thread is surface level discusion of Califonria's problems...
on a higher level, start with the Government's budgeting problems, pension problems, and waste of resources on shyt that doesnt actually work.
As the rich and middle clas leave cali, the tax base will disappear....
It's been like that for quite a while - and those wealth disparity issues exist in every major city in the United States - for obvious reasons. When you have a wealthy population, they find ways to hoard resources and create an economic apartheid community within. Exists in NYC, SF, LA, Seattle, Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Columbus, etc.
Also it should be noted, that California was closer to Texas before the 1990s in regards to how the state was running at a government level. It was more of a balance. Now it is very far left leaning, very corrupt, and the answer is always throwing money at policies that are not proven to work but "sound good" to the average leftist democrat....
The problem is that the money has never gone to the policies for any real length of time. Its actually kind fo wild how you're telling the story exactly backwards.
The major cities in California have blocked affordable housing increases, have allowed for zoning to ease the housing crisis, have slashed state social welfare services, have massively increased the budget of their policing and carceral services instead of mental health, and public education services, continue to allow local property taxes to fund education, have not invested more into public transportation, etc.
Also if you are from California, and voted yes on any of the state props that require tax hikes, you are an absolute smooth brained retard...
More in taxes + more in social services is inevitably a good thing. There has not even a single example historically where this is not the case.
That pitch is just a blue pill for the grim reality that most "3rd world countries" treat their own and even the low class as equal to the best of their abilities. Folks forever falling for the kool aid will recognize once the economy does a somersault into a coffin of shyt
