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Sure... ignore where I point out errors in your statements or methods, throw out an insult or two, then make a new argument or bring out a new source of data. The BEA PCPI estimates from the FRED are a completely
different beast than what you’ve been citing before (Census Bureau estimates based on data from the annual American Community Survey... the ~$65k median household income for CA you originally used). That same data shows CA per capita income for 2015 as $31,587 vs $29,979 for the U.S. as a whole (~5% higher). On the surface, that appears to support your assertions, and if the age/family demographics of every state were statistically identical, it would. However, while the Per capita income of CA is 5% higher than the national average, the mean family size (2010 Census data) is 10% larger in California (3.45) than the national average (3.14). Surely some of that difference is due to California being a younger state, with a corresponding higher percentage of minors under 15 not contributing at all to tax receipts. I fully expect that you will again ignore any salient points I’ve made and respond with a few insults... congrats.

The BEA PCPI estimates from the FRED are a completely different beast than what you’ve been citing before...

What I cited before was census data FOR POPULATION, not income! Don't imply anything different, because I stated that several times to you!

What I stated and you cannot dispute, without somehow distorting manipulating data to your preferences, is that California pays about the same per capita in federal taxes, AND that although they only pay the same, the per capita income is significantly higher on average than the rest of the country.

For some reason, you want to filter out certain pieces of data, so that you can make an argument that says differently. Nope, I used the facts, and you are unable to dispute them, without filtering and manipulating data to your liking.

California, the LAWBREAKING SOCIALIST WELFARE state!

It's useless, sadly, to try to educated and/or correct the completely FALSE ideas some posters keep posting.

The only thing that you, I, and others, who know the facts, can do, it to post the info that puts a lie to the crap that the benighted posters keep posting.

I can't wait for all of those posting garbage and delighting in the harm being done to others, get hit by the now still hidden garbage that is most assuredly in this TAX INCREASE proposition.