Hotel California was prescient.

[Mik]

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. Surely this cannot stand constitutionally.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-will-no-longer-let-you-leave-new-wealth-and-exit-tax/ss-BB1jOnoc?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=56a4b3bd77224ea2bccf9058363a7d52&ei=11#image=1

[Jolly]

Hey, gotta finance the state some way!

[taiwan_girl]

Article is not readable by me, but I assume the tax is if you move from the state? Pretty goofy! I think if you leave the country, they are allowed to tax you, but not just leaving a state.

[Copper]

I stayed at the Hotel California in Palo Alto, maybe 40 years ago.

I left.

[jon-nyc]

Reminds me of the Texas law that put restrictions on social media companies and made it illegal for them to stop doing business in Texas. Although one difference was none of you complained about that.

I would like to see this suffer a similar fate but it’s hard to say what will happen given the federal government effectively does this too.

[Mik]

I don't recall discussing that Texas law. I'd have to know what the context was. But I doubt it was as egregious as this vain attempt to keep your money.

[jon-nyc]

It was an attempt to control a business. If you do business here, you must do as we say. Oh, and by law you must do business here - it is illegal to stop doing business here.

[Jolly]

We don't have unfettered capitalism. Few places do. There are always laws defining the parameters of how commerce is done.

I guess the tricky part is finding the fine line between beneficial law that helps protect the citizenry, without crossing over into an area where the law places an undue and onerous burden on business.

[Mik]

So I gather, but what context? What silly ass thing prompted it?

This is where we've arrived.