California extracts more than half of its income taxes from a fraction of 1% of its citizens. That leaves BestView with the question of whether those wealthy tax payers are bigger idiots for staying there than the politicians who devised such a structure?
On this same subject, what state with a large and powerful labor presence is not in fiscal trouble? I am thinking California, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Nevada, and Massachusetts. Florida joins them for other reasons.