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bronco67 · 08-10-2014, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis

Dire predictions about jobs being destroyed spread across California in 2012 as voters debated whether to enact the sales and, for those near the top of the income ladder, stiff income tax increases in Proposition 30. Million-dollar-plus earners face a 3 percentage-point increase on each additional dollar.

“It hurts small business and kills jobs,” warned the Sacramento Taxpayers Association, the National Federation of Independent Business/California, and Joel Fox, president of the Small Business Action Committee.

So what happened after voters approved the tax increases, which took effect at the start of 2013?

Last year California added 410,418 jobs, an increase of 2.8 percent over 2012, significantly better than the 1.8 percent national increase in jobs.

California is home to 12 percent of Americans, but last year it accounted for 17.5 percent of new jobs, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.

America has more than 3,100 counties and what demographers call county equivalents. Eleven California counties, including Sacramento, accounted for almost 1 in every 7 new jobs in the U.S. last year.

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/20/656...edictions.html

I had a feeling what Dvae said was BS.

It's a knowable fact that Reagonomics, and trickle down economics -- which are the bread and butter of the conservative mindset -- have never worked. Never. Yet they double down on the philosophy over and over. They double down on every bad idea they come up. Look at immigration...you'd think that with their Latino voting numbers, they'd find a way to accommodate immigrants, but they've taken the opposite, xenophobic approach. They're on the wrong side of history with everything.