Note that this is one of their opinion pieces, not a news story. California budget information can be found at https://ebudget.ca.gov/2022-23/pdf/Enacted/Budget

Note that this is one of their opinion pieces, not a news story. California budget information can be found at https://ebudget.ca.gov/2022-23/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/SummaryCharts.pdf https://ebudget.ca.gov/2022-23/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Sum... Note that the WSJ seems to entirely ignore local tax revenue. Any reasonable analysis of a state budget would automatically include both state and local finances since they are so intimately intertwined. Hence the WSJ claim of how dependent california is on high-value income tax: they can make that claim because they ignore other taxes