Very scary that they’ve past the point of dictatorship. I don’t live in RI but go often, and I have heard that the gov is a left wing nut job who is pro union, pro tax, pro illegal immigration, pro welfare, and very anti everything else. Actually surprised the state hasn’t collapsed yet. Crazy high property taxes, high sales tax, no good jobs... How is it still standing?
Immigrant labor that costs half what American labor does. No seriously, all I hear from my grandmother is that Indians have poured into her apartment complex over the years and they either work for CVS HQ or Amica HQ.
So, the work visa crowd gets the good jobs, buy my cousins are stuck doing low labor jobs with their 4 year college degrees that cost a mint.
Then there was one job I took in RI and there were so many people that worked their that were either immigrant visas, immigrants, or came to work for the company out of state. Missouri, New Jersey, Indiana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Dominican... the only people who were from RI were all the low skill labor, bottom of the barrel types.
The public education in RI is a total joke, the teachers unions have the state in a stranglehold and the kids are coming out of school (if they graduate at all) with brains full of mush.
The state hasn't imploded yet because RI finds new ways to tax. Truck tolls are the new thing, but truckers are going to figure out that there's a road called I-395 in CT that takes them up to Route 6, the Mass Pike, and 495 and those roads don't cost a dime. Hell, the tolls may not even stand up in court and what will possibly happen is everyone will be paying tolls, not just trucks.
I think the toll situation is going to be a boondoggle once it shows up. People in the rural parts of RI are going to be inundated with tractor trailers now thanks to vaGina. I'm just waiting for the eventual story on the morning news of a tractor trailer that flew off one of these skinny ass fuking state roads at night and slammed into a building and killed the immigrant driver because he was accustomed to driving on I-95.
I think in 10 years, the state is going to fall apart... and not just the roads lol. The state pension plans are already strained and once the younger baby boomers start to retire... it's gonna be a bad situation. In 10 years, I see property taxes up, gasoline taxes up 10 cents a gallon from where they are now, sales tax up to 10%, income taxes up, but the two big ones I see are marijuana legalized and taxed and prostitution legalized again, possibly regulated via brothels and taxed of course.