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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

tonitime wrote:
> This is fantastic news, Don.......sounds like a great place for you and
> yours!  Will your wife and grandson be joining you in this new life?  It
> has been awhile since i have been in on your doings.  
All of us will be there.
> I hope you get your
> way with this place, and are as glad of your home as we have been in
> Eastern Kentucky!  Every day - even at almost ten years - is just such a
> wonderful things for us......and i have truly not missed California.  
>   

California is in rather deep dodo.  The April Tax receipts were 
announced and they were 30% below expectations.  The legislature pulled 
more smoke and mirrors last time and increased with holding without 
increasing taxes do monthly receipts were up.  Well it seems no one can 
look past the next cycle and looking good in the press, democrats patted 
themselves on the back because they solved a problem without cutting 
spending while repugnicans patted themselves on the back because they 
did not raise taxes.  Then they took the smoke as reality and were 
cheering because of the increased revenue.  Then April 15 came along and 
more Californians received bigger refunds (mine was $8) and revenues 
plummeted way below the false expectations.  The governor will be 
issuing the May revise to the budget and the fight will begin.  Who to 
cut because because of a 2/3 majority requirement there will be no tax 
increases.  Meanwhile a couple of industry financed screw jobs will be 
on the ballot to cause further problems.

I hate to leave California, I was born here and much of my family is 
here but I just cannot afford it.  The taxes on the new place are under 
$400 a year, the taxes on this place are just over $4500 a year.  The 
registration on my blue pickup for California wold have been $180 for a 
year, I registered it in Missouri for two years for $79 and that 
included title transfer fees.  The trailer would have been $210, there 
is was about $60.  I can do a lot with that money.

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html