>>>>You know how that ends:
>>>> The bureaucracy feeds at the pig-trough first, the politicians find more pigs to feed, and the producers somehow cut back or give up or go underground or leave.
>>>
>>>Can you give me some examples of where that has happened?
>>
>>You forgot the big pig-trough: Washington DC and suburbs.
>>
>>Of course the location of the pig trough is booming.
>>The pigs are quite happy to instruct you got give your fair share... gotta keep that trough full !
>
>Again, which producers have somehow cut back or gone underground or left?
>On the contrary, your so-called "producers" - Boeing, Halliburton, IBM love that pig-trough, don't they?

Big business will feed at the trough if they can.
So what?
So will small businesses, non-profits, individuals, families, universities, foundations, foreign governments, unions, health care providers, religous organizations and even "community organizers."
Welcome to the human race.

The trough exists because of government power to confiscate.
More confiscation is not the answer.

The IRS own data shows continued migration of taxpayers away from higher tax states to lower tax states.
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/tax-migration-myth
http://interactive.taxfoundation.org/migration/

My adopted hometown of Austin is growing and booming with people moving away from higher tax states.

I was shocked, simply shocked after moving to Texas - I heard a politician say how "Jobs go where taxes are low" - and he was teaching that to his own kids too.
Never going to hear that kind of talk in California. Never.