Florida's a Dying Ponzi Scheme, But I Love It

Florida will end up like California...bankrupt. Why...because you can't keep giving money away for welfare programs which keep raising taxes...eventually people won't take it anymore...getting the picture nobama...the money has to come from somewhere. And in California and Florida you can't keep taking care of all the illegal criminal immigrants because they will bankrupt the state with welfare and healthcare. Hell most people don't want to live in those states anyway because of all the lazy mexes and cubans who are too stupid to learn our language and be a part of our country. You can have those two bankrupt states. Reply

Wow. The Republican platform in a nutshell. Or nutcase. Reply

I don't know about any "Republican platform" but even if it is, so what? As I seem to recall 60 million Americans voted for that platform last election. It is always funny how the left wingnuts on Newser try and portray the republican position as extreme or fringe, when in fact the republican position is not only mainstream, it is near or at majority in any given national election despite attempts by the left to steal and skew elections with illegal alien voters and voter fraud. You guys have won exactly ONE election with a majority of votes since LBJ in 1964. Our track record on that basis is like three times better whiole overcoming padded democrat voter rolls and voter fraud. Having recently lived in that Florida (and still owning property and paying taxes there) I paid property taxes at about two and half times higher than California, Ohio or New York, along with high sales taxes, highway tolls and many other not so hidden taxes, I can say from personal first hand experience that Florida is a liberal socialist high tax state and yes, proportionally most of that money ends up in failing social programs for the poor "disadvantaged" minorities and illegal aliens. In a state that allows illegal aliens to take the state drivers test in Spanish, even though all road signs are in English, it is no wonder that Florida is so screwed up and that people with mobility, high tech skills are leaving now in droves for lower tax havens in other states. For years Florida leaders used the argument that residents had the advantage with no state income tax and only paid low and reasonable property taxes. And yes Florida has primarily a service, tourist based economy but then if you look at the corporate tax rates and taxes manufacturers would have to pay, it is no wonder that you will never see an investor open a large factory in Florida. As they continued to inflate the property tax rate and grow spending faster than the annual rate of inflation several times over, combined with rising property values with no caps on property tax rates made worse by annual property value re-assessments, this argument disappeared and now the property tax rate is more than if they had the income tax, sales tax and property tax combined. The critical problem there is that there is no control on government spending, that most politicians today, of both parties, see the public coffers as endless bottomless pits with no personal accountability combined with an overwhelming desire to "fix" every social ill known to man by simply spending more money. I knew something was up when I first moved there and everyone I spoke with (the last few remaining English speaking Anglos) laughingly and sadly referred to the South Florida region (South of Palm Beach County to the Keys) as the "Republic of South Florida". After my first trip to the mall where I encountered store clerks at top flight stores like Norstroms and Macy's that spoke zero English and had an aggressive attitude against people... Reply

who spoke no Spanish, I realized I wasn't in our America anymore. I was, in fact, living in the "Republic of South Florida" . Unlike the ill-informed vapid liberal socialists here on Newser who applaud such conditions, the rational right deplores these turn of events and understands this condition is not healthy for Florida or America and that as all houses of cards eventually do, Florida is now falling. Reply