Cali watch: Stop Punishing Success “California needs to roll back decades of control-freakery and abandon ongoing efforts to punish success,” thunders Reason’s J.D. Tuccille . “Ever-higher taxes and always tighter regulations” have consequences: “lost jobs and a sluggish economy.” A new report found that Cali’s share of the national economy has plunged from its 2021 peak and “is now stagnant at around 13.8 percent.” And now the “exodus of high-income individuals has been accelerated by