And I work remotely. I rarely step foot in California, yet I should pay for California’s roads, schools, welfare programs, police, fire? The company for which I work already pays massive corporate taxes to the state so their “impact” and consumption of government is more than paid for.
When I do travel to California, I already get to pay high hotel taxes, rental car taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes. That covers my “share.”
Really states ought to abolish income taxes; Texas and Washington State and many others seem to be doing just fine. The idea of taxing income is already ridiculous — we should be taxing consumption, but that’s another discussion.