[Publius6961]

My only question is: why is this a surprise?
Cigarette tax.
Real estate taxes.
Political correctness rampant.
Uncontrolled spending

Anyone who can will leave the state as soon as they can. Including me, after a lifetime here...

[pikachu]

My sister bought a house in a San Diego suburb thirty years ago for under $30,000. The house next door just sold for $2.4 million and it was described as a 'fix-r-upper'. Thanks to Proposition 13, her taxes are reasonable. Her new neighbor will be paying many times more than my sister in property taxes to a county that is about to default on its pension plan, can't fix pot holes, and 80% of the folks going to the hospitals will not be paying their bill.

MY sister wants to stay in California but could not afford the taxes if she moved.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I am trying to do the same thing and get my family out of New Jersey. Probably will go to Texas.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I wonder what would happen if he people of California passed an initiative that banned the income tax, cut all remaining taxes in half, and demanded that the politicians immediately cut spending by as much as possible to compensate.