That's an interesting claim that calls out for more evidence. Just a year ago, when CA had a large budget surplus, it refunded billions of dollars to many of its taxpaying residents in the form of inflation relief payments. That doesn't seem like the behavior of a government that only wants to collect more and more tax.

Is there any objective and reasonable discussion on the state of CA's finances? Its like the 8th largest economy in the world or something and all I ever hear is right-wing invective about how its a "Failing State" and bankrupt etc. Come to think of it, it seems to mirror the discussion at the Federal level where all I hear the right bitch about is "deficits and interest", which never seems to come up come tax discussion time where they are all too happy to widen said concerning gulf...