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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Florida is trying to eliminate property taxes. They already have no income tax. The government budget is only $119 billion.  By way of comparison California's government budget is $413 billion.  Florida only owes $15 billion in debt, compared to $600 billion in debt issued by California. Florida's population is 24 million; California's is 39 million.

You can see that California invests more in its people. While Florida looks more fiscally sound, California has much less poverty, better infrastructure, fewer homeless, no drugs and much higher education achievement (except if you compare high school students, Florida scores higher there, I'll grant you that).[/quote]

California does not have much less poverty. CA has 4.6 million poor, FL has 2.7 million. Per capita they are about the same (12 percent vs 12.3 percent).

California has the highest homeless population in the country - 187,000 - versus 32,000 in Florida.

Drug overdose rate per 100,000 is about the same in California and Florida, though of course many more total deaths in CA.

So, no, you cannot in fact see that California invests more in its people.

As for their infrastructure, when will California get that high speed rail thing finished, lmao?[/quote]

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