“I think as a strategy, it puts more pain into the equation for those who tolerate Liberal state tax policies.”
It also puts more pain into the equation for those who tolerate the Republicans that raised their taxes.
We are all looking for ways to turn this direction around, but I have long suspected much of the troubles we face are systemic in nature, and cannot be solved short of a collapse of some sort.
A year or so ago I read a wonderful essay, the premise of which is something along the lines of "Things go... until they can't."
It used the Roman empire as an example of a governing structure that "worked" at first, but as more foolish ideas kept getting added to it, it became more unwieldly and more rickety. The thought was put forth; "Why didn't they just remove the "bad" thing that was added, so it could go back to working again?"
The answer was that the "bad" thing had substantial support from those who benefited from the "bad" thing, and they wouldn't tolerate it's removal.
Hence, the only thing that could happen was collapse.
I come more and more to suspect that this circumstance is an ongoing affair in human events, and we just happen to be around at the time when we are witnessing the same sort of unstoppable event with our own system of governance.