Excuse me, but California "bails out" the rest of the United States to the tune of $30 billion a year, to this day. The higher incomes here mean that people pay higher income taxes to the Feds. California's share of Federal expenditures is $0.78 on the dollar it sends to Washington.
Smoking weed and voting for Democrats has its consequences.
States like New Mexico and Mississippi have become increasingly dependent on states like California for their support. New Mexico and Mississippi receive twice as much federal government subsidies as they pay in taxes. Such parasitic states have grown increasingly dependent upon states like California and New Jersey (which pay far more in federal taxes than they receive in federal spending).
A table of this Donor vs. Parasitic state relationship can be found here.
States like California aren't the source of the the federal budget problem. We need to do something about the dependency that has developed in the Parasitic states.