The state California is seen as a glamorous and liberal in the eyes of many Americans and many see that state as very progressive in comparison to the other states. The truth is that California has a long list of struggles and complications that lies on its surface and that the state as a whole is often misrepresented by the media. The state is very diverse demographically and the cities and towns can range from rural suburbia to booming metropolises. Major cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco are most likely to vote Democrat and they always tend to swing the state’s political affiliation in presidential elections. But there are many rural areas and suburban towns that are very conservative and they have a great tendency to vote republican.
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Federalism would prove to be the true solution to the state’s issues because there isn’t a proper balance of power and most of the state is put under one umbrella which is unfair because everyone doesn’t have the same ideology or political association. “We enforce the ‘outer limits’ of congress’ Commerce Clause authority not for their own sake, but to protect the historic spheres of state sovereignty from excessive federal encroachment and thereby to maintain the distribution of power fundamental to our federalists system of government,” (Rourke 26). Because California is not practicing federalism to its fullest extent and that is causing the state’s infrastructure to slowly crumble.
During national elections California is seen as a democratic state, but like any other state the way that someone votes can be determined by income, race, location, and even gender. Caucasian Americans are the have a greater tendency of voting Republican and African Americans …show more content…
At the moment a lot of people are not getting the funding they need because the state tends to favor certain areas over others and this disparity has serious consequences. “California's system of taxation and spending is almost entirely hardwired into the Constitution. It produces wildly fluctuating revenue booms and busts that put state services on a cruel feast-or-famine roller coaster that drags the poor, the elderly, children and even the business community along for the painful ride. Similarly, local funding is hogtied to the state's, forcing our cities and counties to suffer as well from outdated laws in the Constitution,” (Wunderman 1). Allowing local governments to keep locally collected taxes instead of sending them to Sacramento would allow them to spend money in the areas where it’s needed and the tax payers of each county would have their specific needs taken care of. Creating a new system of state spending could profoundly improve the lives of millions of residents, improve the business climate for thousands of companies, while allowing the Californians the opportunity to realize their fullest potential and reach success through the various platforms that California
Federalism would prove to be the true solution to the state’s issues because there isn’t a proper balance of power and most of the state is put under one umbrella which is unfair because everyone doesn’t have the same ideology or political association. “We enforce the ‘outer limits’ of congress’ Commerce Clause authority not for their own sake, but to protect the historic spheres of state sovereignty from excessive federal encroachment and thereby to maintain the distribution of power fundamental to our federalists system of government,” (Rourke 26). Because California is not practicing federalism to its fullest extent and that is causing the state’s infrastructure to slowly crumble.
During national elections California is seen as a democratic state, but like any other state the way that someone votes can be determined by income, race, location, and even gender. Caucasian Americans are the have a greater tendency of voting Republican and African Americans …show more content…
At the moment a lot of people are not getting the funding they need because the state tends to favor certain areas over others and this disparity has serious consequences. “California's system of taxation and spending is almost entirely hardwired into the Constitution. It produces wildly fluctuating revenue booms and busts that put state services on a cruel feast-or-famine roller coaster that drags the poor, the elderly, children and even the business community along for the painful ride. Similarly, local funding is hogtied to the state's, forcing our cities and counties to suffer as well from outdated laws in the Constitution,” (Wunderman 1). Allowing local governments to keep locally collected taxes instead of sending them to Sacramento would allow them to spend money in the areas where it’s needed and the tax payers of each county would have their specific needs taken care of. Creating a new system of state spending could profoundly improve the lives of millions of residents, improve the business climate for thousands of companies, while allowing the Californians the opportunity to realize their fullest potential and reach success through the various platforms that California