That's the only thing tax free in Ca. ( for now)
Why?
LOL
Someone just bought a load of stock in a producer of LCDs...
Follow the money.
Tax Guzzlers have more excuses than a pregnant nun, and the Lead Menace in CRT glass is as good an excuse as any.
I am observing this on my new LCD flat screen monitor-The prices have come down a lot, and will continue to do so, and despite my initial doubts, the performance of these is really ready for Prime Time now, so any unfortunate Califreepers should consider them, as a gesture to the State anyway.
Here in California East,(The land of "I Needa DRINK" Teddy) it is almost impossible to get rid of old monitors and TV's now. One is apparantly expected to abandon them on lonely country roads, or hurl them from overpasses, I guess. Never mind that the "Lead" is locked up in the glass, and was only put there to silence the '80's X-Ray Nuclear Atomic Deadly Radiation Terror in the first place....