[Migraine]

Where the lowest fifth spend the money is meaningless. What is meaningful is that that parasites are going to kill off the host someday.

Right you are. When the takers' take exceeds the givers' gifts, the whole set-up will implode. It will happen first...

...in Kalifornia.

[DB]

California isn't the highest tax state.

East coast has California beat on that front.

[Kozak]

" There are three kinds of people, makers, fakers and takers. Makers create wealth, fakers pretend to create wealth, here you have all your government workers, and takers who make no pretense of contributing to society. When the fakers and takers outnumber the makers, your society is doomed."

Robert Heinlein