Why California is in deep, deep doo-doo

Numbers can lie, but the numbers here are consistent with the same numbers I’ve seen in dozens of other places, and the numbers are consistently drawn directly from government sources.

If you want to know one reason why California has gone from the most extraordinary state in the Union (something I vaguely remember from my early childhood) to a banana republic, this will spell most of it out.  Add to that a political climate that treats businesses like pedophiles, not wealth creators, and you’ve got the answer to California in a nutshell.