[FITZ]

I don't live in California but the property taxes here out outrageously high ---for those same reasons. But it's true what you say ---it's only a matter of time for these problems to spread north ---and they're spreading north quite fast from what I can see.

In Texas the southern counties are demanding a state income tax and it's probably going to happen. You can run but you can't hide.

[quebecois]

"In texas, the southern counties are demanding a state income tax, and its probably going to happen"

Of course it will happen. The major reason that the population shift across the border is occuring is so that they can cohabitate the same political system with a productive middle class american population. Once in texas, they will seek to use the redistributive powers of government to enrich themselves at the anglo taxpayers expense. The most efficient mechanism to achieve this redistribution is the income tax. Why should all of those rich racists sit in their big suburbs with all of their money while the barrios on the border have no running water? Clearly this is not fair, and must be redressed by the state government via a steeply progressive income tax.