I did read the article. I believe everybody should pay taxes for the services and society we think is worth funding. The poor should pay less, the middle more, and the rich more still. That is what I think. I do not think this will happen because I no longer think we, as a country, are cohesive enough, or big pictured enough, or even, really a country with shared values enough to agree on anything. While the article may be factually true, it really says nothing. It is not a morality play or proof of anything other than that's the way the ball bounced in California.

Good luck getting the ball to bounce back towards the middle class in California, or anywhere else for that matter. And the poor? Well, let's face it, nobody gives a shit about the poor.

The rich pay less as a percentage of income in federal taxes than I do, or probably anyone else here.
It's not so easy for them at the state level. Thus we see what is happening in states around the nation. 
We have been failed by Pols of both parties, but there is only one party truly bent on ending the America we have known since the end of WW 2, and returning it to te America of the 1800's.

And that party is the Republican Party.

They are doing a pretty good job at it too. Very efficient. Authoritarians love efficiency almost as much as they love simplicity.

Its about to become very, very simple.


"Stupidity has a certain charm -- ignorance does not." - Frank Zappa 


"I believe in everything - nothing is sacred; I believe in nothing - everything is sacred." - Tom Robbins