If California taxes people and businesses at insane levels, maybe we shouldn't replicate insane level of taxation everywhere else in U.S., on the off chance that it is not, in fact, an optimal level for generating wealth for the people.
Maybe Texas and Florida should be allowed to enact competing taxation schemes so that we can see which one is better.
And maybe Americans should have a freedom of movement within U.S. without having their private property confiscated by the state when they try to leave.
The justification for taxation based on residency is that you use commons like roads and school and police that the government funds so you need to contribute to funding those things.
What exactly is justifications for hitting people with more taxes when they try to leave the state?
To your argument. I guess it depends on 'fairness'. Sure, the deep south can 'Choose' to lower taxes and have really bad schools so that their un-educated population will be unaware, and un-questioning, of any risks when they to go work for the local chemical company or paper mill. This is a valid choice, lets make our people cannon fodder to lure large chemical companies to our state, (and bonus get some kick backs). But, the kids didn't choose this, they were born into it. (which maybe is why they are also anti-abortion, we can't loose our workforce).
There should be some national standards to keep some states from a race to the bottom.
I should be able to give up citizenship or move to another country and pay a cent to the US government.
It's a choice being made to limit someone else's access to resources and information, after all, including the kind of information that would give them the tools they need to understand how much you're screwing them over.
This is nonsense. California is the strongest state in the union economically, with one of the highest quality of life and income per capita. We have an affordability crisis that is related to the topic at hand - billionaires hoarding wealth and driving up the cost of living - but that's a national problem that California can't solve on it's own. Our taxes pay for the things that enable our success - roads, power, dams, parks, libraries, and all that other good stuff.
Meanwhile Floridians can't use their beaches due to red tide and dumping tires in the water. The people of Houston JUST got their power back yesterday a week after a mere Category 1 hurricane. Maybe they should raise some taxes and do something about that so their cities stop losing economic productivity multiple times a year...
1) California is so popular because it has beautiful weather and natural resources. A group of monkeys could govern the state into prosperity.
2) California has also had the highest number of power outages amongst all states.
And same goes internationally, if all countries would enact laws against money laundering, or at least enforce it, then the rich wouldn't so easily move their money around.
Just because they can avoid taxes doesn't mean it is the governments fault for having taxes.