I think the random section about NY is irrelevant, but CA’s highly volatile tax revenue system, its long-term financial liabilities and how these two things intersect w/ the tech industry and land-use are mostly spot on.https://link.medium.com/gV9cFzLnZU
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
There are insightful points here, but the entire piece seems to assume that California is economically just Silicon Valley, which isn’t true, either from a GDP or tax revenue standpoint...
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The Bay Area is close to 40% of the personal income tax revenue for the entire state of California even though we are 16.8% of the state population. It's not actually that far off.... https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3507/Fiscal-outlook-111616.pdf …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
No question SV continues to outpace the state. But if 40% dropped 10%, it’s just 4%. That’s all I’m saying. Certainly the pension obligations created in the state are not mostly in the Bay Area. We are certainly the most cyclical portion of the state, that’s for sure.
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Replying to @adamnash
4% would be the entirety of California state government funding to the University of California system.
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Or close to 1/10th of the entire K-12 budget.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
10% would be a depression like we haven’t seen since the 1930s. Poor choice of a round number.
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Actually, this happens like... literally every 10 years. Remember our $41B deficit in 2009?https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/us/17cali.html …
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Or the $35B gap in 2003? https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/11/us/californians-hear-grim-news-on-budget.html …
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