It is not the liberals who are fleeing the state. Why would they flee the “paradise” they worked so hard to create.
State income taxes maybe high but they are deductible on your federal taxes unlike other forms of taxes some states use.
Then we have a coming battle between state workers union greed vs environment idealism. You think they will lose part of their pensions while California is sitting on enough oil to pay for there pensions and fund useless government transportation projects built by union workers?
“Then we have a coming battle between state workers union greed vs environment idealism. You think they will lose part of their pensions while California is sitting on enough oil to pay for there pensions and fund useless government transportation projects built by union workers?”
Very interesting point! The liberal state worker takes on the liberal environmentalist! There are still more citizens than state workers, and they tend to vote in favor of “environmentalism.” And the oil spills are still to be remembered so I think when you couple this with the fact that CalPers is in the process of going broke, ultimately the state workers loose. At least I hope that’s the case.