States tend to have four major tax sources: Sales taxes, individual income taxes, corporate income taxes, and property taxes, (locally imposed). In the first three categories, CA is highest in the nation, or very close to it.
Only in property taxes are Californians about in the middle of states, measured in absolute dollars paid.
The politicians won’t be happy until they eliminate Proposition 13, and succeed in making our property taxes near or at the highest among states. They will likely succeed.