AP: Do we have room for 10 million more people?

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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Do we have room for 10 million more people?

Updated, 7:30 a.m. Challenges await as report predicts California's population will grow by that much over the next 15 years. State's residents will be older, with more Latinos.
By Jennifer Coleman
The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO -- By 2020, California will be more crowded, its population older and its racial composition dominated by Latinos, according to a new report.

The changes will pose challenges to state lawmakers, who will have to grapple with the additional pressures on already strained schools and health care systems, according to the report by the California Budget Project.

In just 15 years, one in seven Californians will be 65 or older, the state will add 10 million residents, and Latinos will account for 43 percent of the population, with whites accounting for about 34 percent.

The white and Latino populations are expected to become equal in 2010, when each is projected to account for 39 percent of the population, said Barbara Baran, associate director of the organization and the report's author. The report, "Planning for California's Future," examined Census data and figures from the California Department of Finance. While it doesn't offer recommendations, its intent is to warn lawmakers of the coming shifts.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested a multibillion-dollar bond program to rebuild and expand California's freeways, bridges, levees and schools, which Baran said is important in light of the state's projected population growth. But that proposal should be examined "in the context of other challenges -- child care, elder care, health care -- that are really emerging," Baran said. Lawmakers are focusing on infrastructure because it has been long neglected in favor of investments in social programs, said Assemblyman Rick Keene, R-Chico.

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http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/2007827.html

[Coastie for Truth]

1. CA's Problem Is Prop XIII

It is as if Cooper and Jarvis were struggling mightily with an angel - and then they walked past a bush that was aflame but was not consumed, and then they went up to the mountain top amid thunder and lightning, and then they traveled to a gentle knoll near Rochester NY -- where they found a Golden Blackberry -- with hieroglyphics on the display -- and an angel of the Lord gave them prismatic glasses that enabled them to read the hieroglyphics -- and behold - the golden Blackberry displayed---

PROPOSITION XIII.

I have lived in LA, VA, MD, PA, MI, NY -- and worked (and lived part time) in OH, TX, IL, and Japan -- and our schools SUCK - and it is not because of the Teacher's Unions or Tenure --- it is because of Prop XIII --- and because of the 2/3's requirement for bond issues and taxes.

WOW - I SAID IT -- AND A LIGHTNING BOLT DIDN'T STRIKE ME DEAD

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. Amen to that, Coastie

It's a disgrace.

[bemildred]

3. Exactly. We can't have it both ways. nt

[mitchtv]

4. yeah maybe we can round up the seniors

who are "overhoused" and put them were they belong, cause the realtors have another sucker willing to pay a half million for the house they bought for150k.
Some of us have been around long enough to have seen taxes go up every year . The problem with 13 , for those of you who want to raise taxes on fixed income people, is that COMMERCIAL Properties benefit too, all comercial preoperties except residential rentals should be exempt from prop 13 gains,. It sure beats dispossessing seniors.You'll never get my vote to do that.

[mitchtv]

5. wrong

it is the addition of commercial properties to prop 13 that is the problem,not stable people who do not speculate on their homes and live and work in the same community for years, paying taxes and bonds. If the Newcomers want to buy in, let them BUY in.

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Same real estate tax provision that they have in Louisiana

and their schools suck.

So - a tax "lock in" results in schools that suck based on a sample of 100% of the states that have a "lock in."

[mitchtv]

8. someone had to pay for, and build these schools

And someone else is oligated to maintain them, hopefully the people who have kids in them, Sorry I just don't buy it. Tax the corporations who made a fortune on prop 13, not people who are struggling to make ends meet. reform yes repeal no.

[Capn Sunshine]

6. Do we have room for 10 million more people?

Hell yes!

What, you've never driven the 5 ? Still more land than people.