In the mid-Sixties, when I was in here in California, we had the best education system in the country. JC's were free, Universities were almost free, high schools were producing scholars; freeways, houses, cars and airplanes were being built at full pace, and workers were moving in from all over the country.
Today, the people moving in are illegals and others needing or demanding governmental help. Every year for the past several the receipts in Sacramento have increased--but spending has increased faster. A few weeks ago our legislature, made up of the dumbest and most corrupt among us, passed the largest tax increase in the history of the republic. That on top of a tax rate that was already among the highest in the country. So now we are Number One again, this time in taxes. And what has happened to our top-rated educational system during the decades of ever increasing tax receipts? It fell 48 places. Only Mississippi has worse schools.
We should number one on our elected officials.
