I'm not sure that you'll see public employees down at minimum wage, but that pension system that Davis gave the unions as a present for their support will break the State. That has got to go. Arnold was smart to leave himself an out on taxes. A McClintock, were he compelled to raise taxes from one source or another, would have been crucified as he's already signed "the pledge". Still, I don't see Arnold going at Prop 13 or the Income tax.
Again, what do I know? I'm just a shmuck Floridian who thought about moving back to the state of my birth a year ago. Instead, I thought better of it. Florida is a CCW state, "shall issue" is the standard here, with a growth rate that is phenominal, no state income tax, but plenty of receipts to the state.
It helps, of course, to have a unified Republican Party that refuses to form a circular firing squad. We control both houses of the legislature as well as the governor's chair. No Grayouts here.
I was in California last month. Visited my family in Woodland Hills and dropped by a friend of mine who lifes in La Crescenta in the foothills of the San Gabriel National Forest. This was late July, just as CA was on the cusp of the recall. My friend, who I prefer not to name, is a gun owner and plans to move, with his wife and his career, to one of the Free States, where taxes are lower and the Nanny State doesn't breathe down your back as much. He wants to move to Nevada. Taxes are high. It is harder to start a business. He works for L.A. Department of Water and Power. But he's not an engineer. He spends his hours investigating EEOC complaints to keep the lawyers off the Department's back.
Be Seeing You,
Chris