For now. We're being invaded by massholes who, having escaped high-tax nanny state socialism for a "better quality of life", then go and vote for high-tax nanny state socialist candidates as soon as they arrive here.
Escape a burning house, move into a new one, go "ooo, matches!". That's a masshole transplant.
We just lost the capable Sununu for Shaheen "the tax machine" due to them.
I know this happens to states surrounding CA, too. It's like locusts invading after destroying the fields they started in. They move on and destroy another, and then move on, and...
If people want $$$ government services, by all means vote for them. My big problem is with the reluctance to pay for them in a sane manner.
Also, some of the way revenue was raised really torqued me off. For instance, to fund more light rail and other mass transit projects (that I could not econimically use) they raised BRIDGE TOLLS instead of raising the cost of taking mass transit. When I moved to CA, Bridge tolls were $1 a day (only one direction was toll-ed). When I left, it was $2, quickly on its way to $4. If those tolls went to bridge improvements, I'd probably have grudgingly approved.
Living in Texas, my property taxes nearly replace what I'd have paid in income taxes in California, but this is the thing: I have roads that aren't pothole farms here! When the roads start to get crusty, THEY ACTUALLY GET FIXED!
The state of Texas also does an amazing thing: They try and project growth and build roads in ADVANCE OF PROJECTED GROWTH instead of waiting 20-30 years when the proposed roads would already be over capacity!
Sure, I'd rather pay as little taxes as possible; but if what taxes I do pay are put to good use, I'm OK with it.
If I'm paying 50% of my income in taxes, and the average quality of life and income go up 400%, i'd probably live with it.
Unfortunately, it never works that way.