If you are rich, you want to be in places where you can enjoy and show off and well be rich. Living in some third world or second world hell hole or some deep red state with no mountains or beaches where you can’t drive and enjoy your fancy car just would not be fun it’s basically the reason why you wouldn’t want to be rich from America and live in Mexico or further south.

Not to mention your businesses need to be in relatively affluent areas where most people can afford your products and from an educational standpoint, most of the better schools are on the west coast or are in the upper east coast.

Worry. about the other 99% maybe more precise, the other lower 90% of American Society.

In Texas, like Florida, you get a bill for all improvements within your neighborhood or development as they come. Just because the tax may appear low on the front end, that doesn’t mean you don’t pay for the same relative lifestyle as everybody else in the United States of America.

Even though all the states have their differences they all live relatively the same, in short, if you are an average person, you pay pretty much the same as any place else. It’s only the wealthy who get to hopscotch and dance over the top of all the bodies of the (working class) below.

There’s nothing California can learn from Texas, but if you want to live like Texas or Oklahoma, you can just move to Bakersfield, California hint: that part of California sucks.

You’re just carrying water for him. Zuckerberg is a winner. Zuckerberg and the other 214 billionaires in California will be fine you don’t have to suck up to them they’ll be ok a billion times over.

Wealthy people won’t be driven out of the state. There is a reason why California, Washington, Oregon and the northeastern United States are doing well in comparison to the great middle it’s the total package.

Geography, post-secondary education, relative openness/acceptance/tolerance towards people who are different, religion, race, ethnic group etc.

The best decision my parents made was leaving Tennessee and Texas and coming to California thank you.

If you are retired and did manage to buy a house and are not rich, proposition 13 is the only thing keeping you in your house.

Sales tax and the gasoline tax are use taxes. They are about as fair (democratic) as you’re gonna get because it’s based upon use most the other taxes whether they’re high or low, you can’t escape from particularly if you are the average person in the middle, and once again, if you benefit from capital gains, that is a huge life-changing benefit, which most working people don’t have. Vote yes. on proposition 40 if you are in California the less than .001 and even the 1% will easily survive.

Which is why the majority of people in California who work for a living shouldn’t be carrying any water for billionaires or hundred millionaires, you could even extend that down to someone who’s worth 10 million, until you get to that level, you don’t realize how many people over that level have it very easy.

In comparison to the majority of the population, you know the other 99%. That’s right, you heard it right. 99% of the population does not have $10 million free and clear without debt. In other words, if you are still paying off your house you are not in that upper bracket.

Even the conservative states who supposedly stand for the individual can’t get anything like proposition 13 passed through their state legislature and it’s been over 48 years.