[Minus_The_Bear]

Oh BS. California isn’t going to do a d*mn thing. You don’t have enough with-it citizens to out-vote the “downtrodden.”

This. California isn't going change thing. They're like a giant spoiled child.

[buwaya]

Ditto. Most California voters aren’t going to see a tax increase - they may feel it as second order effects, in the form of higher prices, lower pay or no jobs, but they aren’t going to make the connection.

And the state is so gerrymandered that very little is going to shift.

We will just end up in a big, sunny version of Detroit.