He left LA to sponge off my mother after my father died.
He didn’t pay his taxes. He’s a liberal. But he also didn’t make that much.
California is eat up with people who will not leave California no matter how much their taxes go up. The ultra-rich will leave but find a way to come back without paying taxes. Florida is hot as hell except when it isn’t and you have to deal with hurricanes.
RE: Two things I garner from what you’re telling me:
1) Your brother isn’t the 1% so he doesn’t care if taxes go up on the wealthy. THAT is exactly what makes California a paradise to these people. All you need is enough people thinking this way and California will be on its way towards Europeanization.
2) What California has going for it is something no other state, no matter how prosperous they are, can ever compete with -— GREAT, MODERATE WEATHER.
This is something people will pay a premium for until the taxes become unbearable.