If you flee from California and do a 1031 swap, then change the use of the new property within 5 years, California will “CLAW BACK” -their wording- any tax savings you had from the original 1031 exchange.
Bastards.
Progressivism ultimately reduces everyone to either funding sources or welfare.
The basic function of a subject is to fund the government and they justify it on the back of the “benefits” they offer.
But what it really boils down to is employing a lot of folks who think we cannot live without them, who have skills with questionable marketability, and who expensively sponge off of the rest of us doing what we could do for ourselves, or families, and even each other on the relative cheap.
Government produces nothing of value and is a net cost.
Ironically, the same folks who go on about anthropogenic global warming are the leading contributor, as they not only do the things they say hurts the environment they CAUSE everyone else to do even more of that just to overcome the costs imposed by the government.