“I wonder if they have thought through the effects of a win.”
Nah, liberals don’t think any farther than their initial knee-jerk reaction.
Here’s a funny example: CA imposed buying carbon credits on power plants. Many of the plants don’t have the profit margin to pat these and are declaring bankruptcy. So - no carbon credit money and no taxes from these plants. Others that can pay the credits are taking a serious hit on profits, of course, so their plants are devalued. This cuts the property taxes they have to pay, sometimes by 50%. So less $ for the state.
Did the idiots in Sacramento foresee this? Obviously not, they were too busy patting themselves on the back for finding a way to punish earners. But any conservative could’ve told them what the natural consequence would be.
CA have been stupid about energy for years and years. Classic liberal, socialist stupidity.
Not unlike Venezuela that destroyed the private sector because of stupidity, CA would follow a similar pattern except that the valuable resources that they have to offer, high tech, are mobile and can be moved to other states.