Exactly, we want to pay 40% and have no healthcare, no free higher education, and no decent mass transit.

Exactly.

Let me spend the extra 10% as I want. You want free ed, pay for it yourself.

And waste the other 40% on random wars with random countries who pose no threat (which we will lose, of course), imprisoning people for no reason, and just general corruption and kickbacks to the American oligarchy who funded the elections. That's the American way. Billionaires don't need free university, health insurance, public transportation, or safety nets. And the idiot masses think they'll be the next billionaire. How cute.

But the tax rates are very similar, especially in places like California, once you account for the property tax and health insurance.

Then CA has what it needs.

Look at the transit plans that CA has been trying to implement for years. Giving them more tax money will solve this?

No need to spend 50% in taxes for free public education. Just spend money for knowledge, not for politics. Don't give any money tu bureaucrats and diversocrats.