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But the places like Oregon and Washington which are booming as a result of "California flight" have all of those same factors with marginally different weights
by Der_Einzige 6y ago
But the places like Oregon and Washington which are booming as a result of "California flight" have all of those same factors with marginally different weights associated to each individual problem.
In particular, Oregon has a higher tax rate than California does for high (~120K+) earners as a result of a lack of sales tax and correspondingly absurdly high income taxes. Oregon is booming. Blue state politics is not what is driving people out of California.
- elevenoh 6y ago>Blue state politics is not what is driving people out of California It's certainly part of it (wealth tax, non-nuanced small-biz killing lockdown, signalling > results) though. Not all 'blue state politics measures/stances' overlap.
- epistasis 6y ago"Wealth tax"? The people who are leaving California are not high wealth. The best wealth tax out there, a land tax, has been prohibited in the California constitution via proposition 13, and that tax would go a long way towards eliminating the rentierism that is pushing out people with lower incomes.