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But without an income base that historically is supplied by business, as the agricultural part of the state also uses these same businesses, the cash flow needed to handle the previously more important items by the state, some they shouldn't have even started, go tango uniform.

You've got it backwards. The resource business provides the cash flow for support businesses infrastructure.

Trying to recover the economy is the first and formost topic right now.

Reducing the regulatory burden may mean more to accomplishing that than would taxation. Consider the secondary impact of regulation on prices for electrical power that induced the $43 billion in bonds, or the flushing of over $20 billion on MTBE. It's big.

"You've got it backwards. The resource business provides the cash flow for support businesses infrastructure."

Not completely. I'm from the San Joaquin Valley, Tulare County originally, and in my youth, agriculture was the key to success in the area. But, that has changed. Ranching is much more co-op now and the small rancher is a thing of the past. Large business is that guy in the straw hat since about 20 years ago, and their achievements have been based upon size and capital, not bartering corn for tomatoes. Ranching by its needs is a turnover business requiring operating on last year's money because, unless you are a dairy, there are no fast turnover products. This is why a large number of ranchers that once worked in one or two crops, now diversify their fields to try to include crops that can be sold alternatley to try to garnish capital on a more consistent plane. Example, one family has sons that grow, one, sugar beets and milo, and another, cattle. They also co-op with a third brother in citris to sell. The beets and milo are for the cattle, the citris for all three. But, I'm sure you undertand what they are, pretty much, forced to do in self defence.

Industry is replacing the ranchers. The investment of corporations in ranching is immence. And something as simple as a lot of companies creating their own transpotation lines, (or dealing with special deals to current lines), to cut costs, has further created industry. If these industries are pushed out of the state by healthcare requirements or other taxes aimed at business, then the cash cow goes east also. Remember what happened to the insurance industry when Nadar lied to the public and they left. This is just a grander scale. And this one is huge as it affects every business in the state. The disagreement we have at the top of this entry I think is this: You think the businesses come here because of the great growing environment, and I think they are here because of what they can get out of the environment. If they can't get anything because the state is taking it away from them, then they won't come in or stay. And all the environment money being taken just goes away with the rest of the money. If you have nothing to spend, then reading the bills is worthless.