Of course, I start all my analyses from the premise that people have a right to their own property and wealth, and this is where I usually lose a lot of people right off the bat.

You do see that allowing a law preventing a landowner from utilizing his own property to the maximum is not quite the same thing as a law allowing me to keep more of my own money than the state would normally confiscate for the "public good."

That California is suffering from severe undertaxation is a pantload. The problem isn't insufficient taxation, and never has been.

In a proper society, the government is supposed to be heavily regulated, and the people free to act. Not only has this been forgotten, but a lot of people have actually reversed it.

Along those lines, I'm going to post something on the Climate Security Act in a few minutes.