Response From a Reader

The mindset -- [that reflected in the post immediately beneath this one] -- brings to mind California's last boom days when Willie Brown was running the state legislature. In response to a question about heavily taxing businesses to finance unrestrained spending, Willie referred to the burdens as the "price of admission" and declared that "companies that want to do business in California are just going to have to pay the price." Willie of course left 'public service' a rich man and, with many of those companies having departed, the rest of us now are left to pay the price.