I speak from the viewpoint of an endangered (yet unprotected) rare occurrence of a native California conservative. With the State financial situation in arrears, and an already monumental tax burden, many of the affluent, whom shoulder the cost of the California government, are leaving the State as apparently gold can tarnish. My own family has made a progressive exodus. Recent events make me seriously question my decision to return to my home state following my military service. Should riots erupt, and the affluent are “punished” for our economic success following an elimination of welfare benefits, the camels back will break, and those with invested assets in the State will see that continued presence in the State is nothing more than a bottomless money pit. We will drive out the productive in droves, whom will cut losses and run, rather than wait for favorable positioning to move as they are now; The California economy will utterly collapse in the absence of enterprise and the highly productive. The alternative to raise taxes, is less severe, but still has the effect of hastening the exodus. That road eventually arrives at the same place albeit a few years further down the line. As much as it is near and dear to me because I live here, all should watch with interest; For how California goes, so goes the Nation. What we have done to ourselves is simply a few years ahead of the current National plan. Hopefully the rest of this great nation can learn from our mistakes, about the real dangers to society posed by large governments and wealth redistribution.
