LOL, the California blindness. Anybody moving out ‘can’t cut it’.
Taxes are just one more straw on the camels back. Anybody moving purely for tax reasons, IMHO, is misguided.
They may be moving because of the impacts of those high taxes, our workers comp environment, our ADA lawsuit environment, our environmental regulatory environment, the AMQD requirements, the CARB requirements, our expense environment or the out migration of large corporate jobs, but solely taxes, no.
But in general, it’s the slow degradation in quality of life for otherwise rather successful and capable people that just not stellarly so.
The true irony is that most of the large out migration States (Washington, Arizona, Texas) really which most of the Californians would just go home. They move there and then want the same government oversight they’re fleeing.
And that’s the true disconnect. Which brings us back to econprof’s point. Are we getting the value. Or are we starting to disproportionately rely on a few to pay for us all.
IMHO, our value received is in the bottom 1/3rd and our disporportionateness is rather high.
