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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps if tax evasion were not so widespread, state finances would be in a better shape?
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The problem in California was never a shortage of taxes until recently when they got so high that businesses begin to close under the weight, the problem there has always been spending.
When Texas built its windpower infrastructure we specifically built it connected with only a local grid - not connected to the national grid. Californians want Green power but they are bad about not paying for it, or trying to get the federal judiciary to help them get it below cost. Texas has made out better by keeping this resourse in state rather than selling it primarily because of the bad past behavior of California.
It might help you to think of California as Greece.