California's 543 billion deficit makes no sense

Could be. I don't know much about revenue raising for states.

I know sales tax is state and that's about it.

Once you said, "probably", it was clear you were just talking out of your ass, 50 cent komrade. Provide some proof to your horseshit next time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/05/12/blue-state-bailout-red-state-residents-received-largest-stimulus-checks-and-millions-in-federal-aid/

BUT!

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/502321-no-blue-states-do-not-bailout-red-states

A good read.

Private employees made a great deal of progress for decades with strong salaries and benefits for the average Joe. Around the late 1970s, there was a very strong pushback from business owners and rich people to change laws, taxes, regulations and public opinion to favor themselves over the working and middle-class. That's why salaries have been stagnant, taxes lowered for the rich, attack on pensions, unions, benefits, etc.

Their MO is to get simple-minded folks to scapegoat civil servants and illegals when it's the rich who get richer on the backs of everyone else.

One example: the 2018 taxcut for the rich will have those making less than $100k paying more in taxes starting in 2021. Each year, your taxes will continue to rise. That's not gov. workers or illegals. That's the rich saying "Screw you!"

Retire at age 50. Then become a private contractor for the government and get paid for the same job while receiving your retirement. Order everyone in the state to stay home on thanksgiving and watch Netflix while you and your friends gather at your daily stop at some Napa Valley 27 star restaurant. Sidewalks doubling as toilets in your finest cities. Promise free everything. Let the state burn down and blame a mythical climate disruption.

Great place to live.

Again, ultra white guilt is talking out his ass too.

California has state unions. Teacher's union. Cal-Trans. DWP. Even Police an Fire. They all still have antiquated pension programs and cadillac benefits. Who pays for this? The big cities and the state. So when these people retire on a 100% pension, who pays for them? CA taxpayers.

So what is CA paying for with their tax revenue besides this? A bullet train to nowhere. Additional cleaning service to the homeless. Needles to the homeless. Welfare to illegals. Inefficient social service for welfare recipients. Deep layers of bureaucracy.

As people leave, they're tax revenue will shrink. As the Sac Bee stated, they are anticipated a $20 billion surplus budget surplus next year, but a huge budget deficit after that.

Some cities are Repub lite. Those are the ones that clearly state they are not a sanctuary city. The ones that do, are full on leftist cities like San Fran and LA. That's why they are shithole tent cities now.

I disagree. They voted for Bernie Sanders so I would think they're more progressive than one realizes.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/811814642/sanders-wins-california-largest-super-tuesday-prize-fueled-by-latino-vote