California has a $9b surplus

Good, then they don't need any federal money. Maybe they should give some to the people eating out of the garbage and living on the streets.

If you have a surplus, you owe the people a tax rebate.

Also, they are woefully behind in infrastructure improvements and many other areas, which they've ignored for the sake of shifting dollars to illegals.
They have at least two cities that have had to file for bankruptcy.
And they have somewhere close to $400 billion in unfunded liabilities.
CA is a disaster and will soon come crawling to the federal govt asking for a bailout.

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What about their unfunded pension obligations?

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Some went towards it but Republicans wanted a larger amount. I'm not 100 percent positive but I think a large chunk of the UALs, even in CALpers, are local governments and not state.

The biggest way they're screwing up is in how unreasonably high they set discount rates on those liabilities. No private sector system would do that. That shouldn't even be a partisan issue.

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Also, they are woefully behind in infrastructure improvements

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Ever been to Louisiana?

Now do the actual debt in California, not just this past fiscal years surplus, the actual overall debt.

Plenty of states have surpluses, both blue and red

plenty of states have deficits, both blue and red

It is tiring when people try to use state level performance juxtaposed with state level political orientation to make a connection.

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Good, then they don't need any federal money.

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Did you know Cali’s federal tax burden funds Louisiana’s largesse?

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Did you know Cali’s federal tax burden funds Louisiana’s largesse?

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Oh god, here we go again... 'muh blue states fund muh red states'

You guys are hypocrites.

you claim you love a progressive tax system, yet bitch when it does exactly what it is designed to do: punish rich and reward the poor. A progressive income tax system will hurt rich states and help poor states..... that is literally the principle behind it.

9 billion and yet no water.

Drive up and down I5 and signs galore of farmers bitching at the government.

But they have enough money and water to constantly build golf courses at a rate only Florida can beat.

There is a County in California that has 6 golf courses within 40 square miles...two of them world famous.

And the State says no water at restuarants...hotels? recycle your own towels...slo-fo showers, slo-fo toilets.

Everything in California is conservation unless it's golf and wine.

State has gone wine crazy, every city up and down the coast now advertisies as Wine Country.

The water issue will never go away.