That's because the state is obsessed with increasing the number of poor, unskilled, and uneducated in the state, and taxing the living **** out of the middle class, upper middle class, and wealthy to pay for giveaways to the government-dependent.
The middle class and upper middle class are leaving the state in droves, to be replaced by the poor, uneducated, and unskilled, who pay no taxes and siphon a massive amount of taxpayer funds - housing, medical care, schooling, transportation, and on and on.
Wow, look at that ... 25% of the state's budget is spent on Medicaid.
Huh, and who would have guessed it? California spends more on welfare every year than the next two highest states COMBINED.
California, with its suffocating cost of living and huge population, is home to an inordinate number of households receiving public assistance. In fact, with $103 billion going toward welfare, the Golden State’s spending on the financially needy is more than the next two on the list combined.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/n...-when-it-comes-to-welfare-spending-2017-11-28
The state is currently being propped up by the multi-billion dollar tech giants and very wealthy taxpayers. In fact,
the top 1% of wage earners pay 50% of California's income tax. So much for Hyphen's fair-share idiocy.
However, a tech stumble and the new Fed tax policies, encouraging upper-income citizens to leave California, could trigger a tax implosion and another round of budget woes for the state.
I speak from experience. California takes a ****-ton of money from me every year. I have had enough, and my wife and I are no longer California residents. Received my Arizona license plate last week, and getting my Arizona driver's license in the next few.
No worries, California. I'm sure that several emigres who have no job skills and who need government assistance to pay their bills will replace my income tax contributions ...