[A CA Guy]

I've been thinking a lot about this myself the last few days. Democrats and Obama get their voters going telling them they are victims being robbed by the rich who had everything given to them.
They keep talking redistribution and economic/social justice which is communism IMO.

Actions bring about reactions.

IMO the Democrats and those that vote for them have created a ton of the International companies they hate.
It would be in the best interest of any company doing well IMO to go off shore to avoid some if not all of the piles of laws that are in truth anti-business here.
You also have to grease a lot of politicians hands with bribes/donations to be somewhat left alone, kind of like dealing with the mafia.

The whole purpose of the tax law is to mold the behavior of people in the economy and IMO it is at a point that those that can flee elsewhere to try and keep more of what they earn do so.

We are IMO the most overtaxed place on earth. Property taxes.
Car registration taxes.
Wage taxes.
Taxes on your interest income or all other income.
Fuel tax in each gallon.
Sales taxes in the states.
Taxes through distribution and everything else as your products or food reaches you.
If you want to start a business taxes before in many cases you earn a dollar, regulations that restrict success.

IMO eventually we turn this around or we will end up with the government also banning paper money to end the gray market.
Instead we will perhaps have a simple sign-of-the-beast chip or tattoo on your person to scan your life. Don't worry, hardly anyone would cut the chip or tattoo off your body, who would think of such things?

I was never one of those that believed conspiracies or Orwellian things or that we are in end times, but Democrats and establishment Republicans can get you thinking about these things.

People are more dependent these days (learned from public school)
Many have hands out feeling they are owed something and that it is because someone stole something from them that they have less or nothing. Many vote the class-ism that the Democrats put between people.

Our people have replaced the old American sense of pride in themselves with a total LOSS of ANY sense of shame in their behavior. That is our national cancer at this time IMO.

[OneWingedShark]

People are more dependent these days (learned from public school)

Well, it's not only that, it's that you aren't allowed to be independent.
Take a look at those couple of cases where municipalities tear up someone for growing their own foodstuffs.
(Or people that want raw milk, or raw honey, or basically anything that means less government control/involvement in their lives.)

Indeed, challenging the usurpations of officialdom is not allowed.
In New Mexico, our State Constitution says this:

Art II, Sec. 6. [Right to bear arms.]
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

and yet there's a state statute, NMSA 30-7-2.4, that says:

30-7-2.4. Unlawful carrying of a firearm on university premises; notice; penalty.

1. Unlawful carrying of a firearm on university premises consists of carrying a firearm on university premises except by:
   1. a peace officer;
   2. university security personnel;
   3. a student, instructor or other university-authorized personnel who are engaged in army, navy, marine corps or air force reserve officer training corps programs or a state-authorized hunter safety training program;
   4. a person conducting or participating in a university-approved program, class or other activity involving the carrying of a firearm; or
   5. a person older than nineteen years of age on university premises in a private automobile or other private means of conveyance, for lawful protection of the person's or another's person or property.
2. A university shall conspicuously post notices on university premises that state that it is unlawful to carry a firearm on university premises.
3. As used in this section:
   1. "university" means a baccalaureate degree-granting post-secondary educational institution, a community college, a branch community college, a technical-vocational institute and an area vocational school; and
   2. "university premises" means:
      1. the buildings and grounds of a university, including playing fields and parking areas of a university, in or on which university or university-related activities are conducted; or
      2. any other public buildings or grounds, including playing fields and parking areas that are not university property, in or on which university-related and sanctioned activities are performed.
4. Whoever commits unlawful carrying of a firearm on university premises is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

Now, obviously there is a conflict, the constitution says "no law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense" while the statute [a law] does so abridge the right: certainly to bear, and possibly to keep (say on-campus housing).

Attempts to address this, seeing how to challenge it, has almost always been met with indignation ("how dare you question us"), self-justification ("we do it in courtrooms, so we can do it in schools"), and blame-shifting ("see the state-rep" -> "see the Ag" -> "see the state supreme court" -> "see the state bar" -> "see a lawyer" -> "see a state rep" [ok, so the last one was actually never called back]).