By Howard Husock, includes “Next week, Californians will vote on a ballot initiative, Proposition 15, that would lift longstanding limitations on commercial property taxes. … The state that Woody Guthrie, in his famous Dust Bowl Ballads, called ‘a Garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or to see,’ is no longer a magnet for newcomers but instead a goad driving residents to Texas, Idaho, and other states.”