Vancouver Washington is just across the Columbia River from Portland Oregon.
In the past half year,
Portland and Oregon have become union controlled
tax-and-spend-on-government-wages-and-pensions political domains.
Vancouver and Washington are tax havens.
So when I called a tech rep at the company of a new hardware gift I recently got, we got to chatting while some software downloaded.
He and his company had recently moved to Vancouver from Portland because of the beneficial tax differential.
This is for all you readers who doubt the impact of tax increases. If the differential is between close and similar political jurisdictions, all people and business that can move quickly will do so. If the differential is not so great, and/or the distance is greater... the movement will be slower. Eventually nearly everyone and every business will move.
The idiots in San Francisco politics, and most of my fellow citizens, can't see that the taxes and other City penalties have driven EVERY single big business founded in San Francisco to move to Contra Costa (some moved to other states) over a few decades since the 1960s.
Taxes are part of reality to businesses, not part of an ideological debate.