{"id":11690,"date":"2019-02-28T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2019-02-28T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:41:57","slug":"californias-rendezvous-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-rendezvous-with-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Rendezvous With Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Californians brag that their state is the world\u2019s fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley are cited as permanent proof of the intellectual, aesthetic and technological dominance of West Coast culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Californians also see their progressive, one-party state as a neo-socialist model for a nation moving hard to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how long will they retain such confidence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s 40 million residents depend on less than 1 percent of the state\u2019s taxpayers to pay nearly half of the state income tax, which for California\u2019s highest tier of earners tops out at the nation\u2019s highest rate of 13.3 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, California cannot afford to lose even a few thousand of its wealthiest individual taxpayers. But a new federal tax law now caps deductions for state and local taxes at $10,000\u2014a radical change that promises to cost many high-earning taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
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