[Overseas Chinese Daily reporter Gao Rui reported in Los Angeles on February 9] The Dangsev Future Political Research Center of USC held a network symposium on the 9th, inviting several politicians, experts and business representatives such as Former California Treasurer Jiang Junhui to express their views on the issue of "California or Golden State".
Jiang Junhui said that California to maintain the gold content needs a stronger state government to strengthen the infrastructure of the Golden State, improve the social well-being of the people, our support policy for businesses is better than now, we must first solve the housing crisis, so as to improve the quality of life of the people of California.
Mike Murphy, director of the Center for Future Political Research, said that California's huge budget has led to an increase in taxes, which has allowed California to get rid of the deficit is a good thing, but it has also caused some overwhelmed "endowment" companies to move out of California, and the society has heard the voice of big economy and small government. "I started my business in California in 1979 until 2003, but now I don't want to continue doing business in California, my son opened a garment factory in California, but then moved to New York, and now to St. Louis, where he says the taxes on doing business in California are too heavy."
Mo Fei said that if California wants to return to the Golden State of the year, it needs to have a good state government, formulate a good policy, and end the monopoly of interest groups on the Golden State, only in this way will it attract more investors back to California. California now not only has the highest income tax in the United States, but even the sales tax is among the best, which is why California businesses and even many people are forced to move out of California. California needs to enact stimulus policies to attract investment back.
Jiang Junhui pointed out that the reason for the outflow of California's population is not only the tax problem, but more importantly, the California housing prices are too expensive for office workers to afford; the cost of living in California is too high, so that migrant workers cannot maintain their livelihoods. Many children who should go to school have to drop out of school to help their parents support themselves, and many people who can't get a foothold in California have to move to other states to find cheap houses and low-cost living environments.
Jiang Junhui pointed out that Washington state has no income tax, but has a very good social security system, although they also have high sales taxes. But why does California have to pay income tax in addition to sales tax, so many taxes have not made California rich, but have fallen behind other states? It's not just a matter of government incompetence, it's also the result of California's nation-high unemployment rate, which has reached 60 percent. On the one hand, ordinary people in California have to bear the heaviest tax burden in the United States, but on the other hand, they do not get the quality of life they deserve, which is a problem that deserves serious consideration and timely correction by a group of people in the current state government.
David Crane, a public policy researcher at Stanford University, believes that California is still a golden state, but it is not as brilliant as it used to be, California is the most populous state in the United States, they are the engine that drives the Golden State economy, California gives all dreamers the opportunity to chase their dreams, but also gives the monopoly of special interest groups to create opportunities, California to return to the Golden State of decades ago, not only need a good government, but also need to formulate anti-monopoly stimulus economic policies.