> ... and there's not much the legislature can do about it. Spend less. California has the second highest income tax rate, highest effective overall tax rates

> ... and there's not much the legislature can do about it. Spend less. California has the second highest income tax rate, highest effective overall tax rates, highest sales tax rate, highest tax as a percent of gross income, highest corporate tax rate, highest incorporation fees, highest minimum corporate taxes, highest tax yield per citizen, and highest tax revenues in all of the United States. California gets more money per person in California than any other state, and more total money than any other state. In plain English: California has gets more money per citizen and more money total than other state in the USA. Prop 13 (property taxes can't be set above 1%, and aren't reassessed until a home is resold) has kept a lot of middle class and blue collar people in their homes. I'm in California, and my friend's parents are retired. Their modest house tripled or quadrupled in value over the last 15 years. If their property taxes had tripled or quadrupled, they wouldn't have been able to afford their house. Taxes aren't too low here by any stretch of imagination. It doesn't matter how much money you have if you spend more than that amount of money. That's California's problem.