5 Reasons No One Should Live In California

folks we are leaving california and honestly it's pretty heartbreaking for me i grew up here i was born in burbank california at saint joe's i went to school at edison elementary and i went to middle school at walter reed my family moved to north hollywood when i was 11 and i've lived within like a mile and a half radius ever since my kids were all born here and now i am taking off and we at the daily wire are taking our 75 jobs with us here are five reasons i'm taking my family and my company and leaving the most beautiful state in the country number one quality of life so when my family moved to north hollywood it was a safe clean suburb yes la always had a serious litter and homeless problem but those problems were pretty much relegated to downtown or specific areas of the city and then it was the task of the city you would think to clean up those areas instead they decided to allow all those problems to explode into nearly every incorporated area of la in 2019 there were nearly 60 000 homeless people living in la county in 2011 there were less than 40 thousand so we've increased by 50 percent in less than 10 years these are people many of whom are mentally ill or drug addicted but thanks to local regulations and legal consensus the police have been told they are literally not allowed to move them to dry out facilities or do anything with the trash that now screws every sidewalk and underpass and overpass and embankment in la every single one every freeway underpass is now a tent city in fact they've been building porta-potties and like hand-washing stations in these tent cities under the freeway underpasses nearly every public space has become a repository of open waste and needles and trash the most beautiful areas of la have become wrecks it's one thing to pay exorbitant taxes it's another thing to pay exorbitant taxes to watch your city degrade into a hell hole i mean here's just a few stories from the last few weeks so my wife and i decide that we're going to take our kids down to santa monica right one of the most beautiful areas in america and i'm old enough to remember when it was a beautiful clean area no longer we take them down to a park my kids are playing they wander up a hill a little bit and my daughter who's six comes running down to me and she says daddy there's a homeless man and he is doing something to his arm what was he doing to his arm well he had a needle i'll let you guess that same trip we were walking along the boardwalk and there's just a homeless man no shirt screaming at a bunch of people eating at a restaurant just screaming at them and nobody inside doing anything about the harassment and this is how it is over in venice on venice beach santa monica it's been really really bad over there outside my house i live in a fairly nice area i mean i've seen a homeless person face down outside my home i mean it's terrible it's terrible not for us it's terrible for this guy how is that sympathy for the guy he is lying face down in the gutter and my children have seen people peeing on walls my kids have seen open needles last month alone and i'm just going to talk about what's happened to our company our head of social media was threatened with a crossbow by a homeless man i mean i don't know how that happens across bows he a refugee from 1392 a homeless person tried to bash in the front windows of our office just last week we had a homeless person going through our trash again none of this is lack of sympathy for the homeless it's about having a policy that protects tax-paying citizens their quality of life making sure they can be safe and make sure that people who need care can actually get the care they need but california doesn't do any of that okay two taxes yes tax rates matter you idiots california's top marginal income tax rate is now 13.3 which is already one of the highest in the nation the legislature is actively discussing raising it to 16.8 percent which on top of federal taxation means that if you're in the top tax bracket you're paying 54 of your income to the federal and state government california has historically low property taxes because of prop 13 but the legislature is now seeking to remove all the prop 13 restrictions raising them first on commercial properties and then presumably later on residential properties california's legislature has been considering a wealth tax which taxes you based on non-liquid assets which means you could be paying more in tax than you actually have in yearly income and they want to have that wealth text trail you for 10 years after you leave the state this is not counting the 1 disability insurance payments of taxable wages the statewide 7.25 sales tax the 50 cent gas tax per gallon and a myriad of other local taxes that drain your wallet all for the privilege of living in a state that can't keep the streets clean or the parks safe three crime crime in l.a has been skyrocketing well shockingly when you decide to basically release the streets to people who commit crime crime has been going badly the police have been told to back off of crime in late july lapd chief michael moore said the city had seen a 14 increase in homicide for years the state of california has pursued catch and release crime fighting declassifying certain crimes as crimes devolving responsibility to counties and cities they called a prison realignment to avoid culpability at the state level basically releasing people who should be in jail onto the streets it's been going on for years at the local level too in fact local law enforcement has basically been incentivized to lie about their own crime rates in 2014 the lapd reported they'd misclassified over 1 200 violent crimes as minor offenses and then they say hey look we lowered the crime rate magic it was not a giant surprise when the lapd was ordered to let the city burn in black lives matter riots that shut down l.a county for a full week we were all told to stay in our homes past 6 p.m rodeo drive the nicest area of l.a was forced to close at 1 pm to allow the mostly peaceful protesters to have their way this garbage has real consequences down the street i have a friend who is building a house beautiful house he has had in the last month alone the structure robbed it twice once of copper piping and the dumpster out front was set completely on fire his wife has been stalked by a homeless person back to that person's front door just a block further down another friend's house has been robbed by three people he scared them off the police came they told him he couldn't do anything about it because they didn't have the manpower again i don't live in a bad area i live in a pretty decent area four bad policy making so the bad policy making in california is just nuts from regulations designed to crush businesses the legislature has already passed a bill requiring publicly traded companies in the state to staff their boards with diversity hires so now the state's going to dictate who's on your board to the insanity of the education system where kids can't learn to read i mean literally don't know how to read but there's how leftist propaganda from kindergarten to the bias against religious institutions the one-party state here is impeded only by occasional uncomfortable realities there's a reason that ceo magazine after surveying 650 ceos named california the worst state in america to do business if you see our hr department you'll know organized labor runs the government in california that means running up insane levels of debt on the taxpayer time most obviously california's coveted policy has been utterly unhinged all of the nicest things in california have been shut down for months without data to support these kinds of shutdowns so for example disney world it's open in florida it's been open for a few months in florida with precautions they've been doing it safely no outbreaks disneyland is still shut they've been begging the governor to let them open nope restaurants have opened all over the country with limited capacity indoor dining is still prohibited in large swaths of the state schools are opening everywhere not in l.a and if you're a private school and you want to take precautions the state will crack down on you in fact our local jewish day school they were told they could only operate as a camp as a summer camp if they did a summer camp in the school it was fine if they taught the kids then it was a problem then suddenly it became unsafe for coven fifth and finally it's not getting better there is no resurgence anywhere on the horizon the politics becomes more skewed every single day this is a one-party state right now the state assembly is controlled by democrats 61 to 17 okay the state government like garbage in l.a county we have like a 17 unemployment rate the state assembly is controlled 61 61-17 republicans have not held the majority in the state assembly since 1996. people who can afford to leave are leaving in 2019 before the pandemic before the riots out migration jumped 38 that was rising for the seventh straight year so here's the deal i want my kids to grow up safe i'd love for them to grow up in a community that actually has a future i'd love for them to grow up knowing their labor won't be robbed from them or from us that their freedoms aren't going to be destroyed by the government that their quality of life will be better than the one that i grew up with that's not going to happen in california so we are out last rational person out turn out the light

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Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 03 2020