> A better option for California would be to secede from the rest of the United States. California could cut taxes and afford to pay its public service workers their inflated salaries (and then some), if it wasn't bailing out the rest of the country to the tune of $50B each year.
Some states that paid more in federal taxes than they saw returned to them in federal spending have tried this before. It didn't exactly work out. (Of course circumstances are different now, in that it's the urbanized states on the losing side of the deal, plus there isn't a massive human-rights issue alongside the economic disparity.)
Some states that paid more in federal taxes than they saw returned to them in federal spending have tried this before. It didn't exactly work out. (Of course circumstances are different now, in that it's the urbanized states on the losing side of the deal, plus there isn't a massive human-rights issue alongside the economic disparity.)