i cant pretend to know why CA politicians do what they do. Maybe it is to virtue signal, maybe they believe it would work, maybe they have too big of an ego to admit they are wrong, maybe its the quick fix superficial response to get their constituents off their case, maybe its a feel good response to keep them in office..... I dont know.

But at any rate, its incredibly stupid and mismanaged. CA has gone from the best state in the US by all measurable metrics to the worst in as little as 35 years.

The smart people with money are leaving CA, the smart people with maybe not so much money are leaving too. The ultra wealthy and poor are the only ones who are staying.

CA is devolving to a south american style society like Brazil or Caracas where there is no middle class, the wealthy have everything, and the poor who dont have a path out of poverty.