And you just gotta, like in just gotta, read this in today's WSJ. You have to actually live in California to understand the Left/Liberal tilt to all politics out here. Liberals mask their confiscatory income schemes behind good sounding things that "somebody else who is undeservedly richer than you are" has to pay for. Never you. Well the state has lost half it's high earners and nine billion in tax revenue in the past few years and it's getting worse due to the passage of some Hollywood Looney (yes, rhymes with Cloony) Left propositions on the ballot.

After you read the Journal piece you might ask yourselves "don't liberals pay taxes too and don't liberals get hurt by them?" The Hollywood Left hides behind every phony tax shelter there is. Out of State earnings are the best: you work on a picture that shoots in Nevada so you establish residence there etc., and then you are a citizen of Nevada avoiding California taxes, and so on and so forth. And you don't realize the power and scope of the motion picture business until you check out a business yellow pages. At least half the town is connected in some way to that business, and all know how to dodge taxes.