But at least it ain't snowing here...
in most parts...
Tax Freedom Day in Cahleefohrneeiah is April 30. Unless, of course, you [as 2 parents/2 kidz] make less than $49,083, whereupon ya pay no CA taxes at all…
According to “Jean Ross, director of the left-leaning California Budget Project,”
A more useful measurement, she said, would be “Tax Value Day,” which would include the value of clean drinking water and good roads.
“I think we need to look at what we get in return for our dollars,” Ross said.
Well, okey dokie—let’s look:
The state Department of Education has settled a long-running lawsuit with a whistle-blower, paying $4.25 million to the former worker who said he suffered retaliation after he reported corruption and fraud...
But wait! There’s more:
another $1.2 million to law firms for defending the state through two jury trials and appeals
...Lindberg, a 20-year state worker, said that when he and others reported $11 million in misappropriations to Eastin, she ignored them.
...The case centered on corruption in a program that handed out money to community-based organizations between 1995 and 2000 to teach English and citizenship to recent immigrants. Some of the schools that got grant money didn’t even exist.
$16.45M. *p00f* gone.
Happy Tax Freedom Day!
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