Compare California to North Carolina. When then Governor, Pat McCrory, and the state legislature cut taxes by nearly $5 billion in 2013. They cut everything; income, property, business, and estate taxes. The three years that followed NC had the highest GDP growth in the country. Over the course of those three years North Carolina's labor force grew five times stronger than the national average. And guess what, they actually took a budget deficit and turned into a nearly half billion dollar surplus. Seems like those “deep tax cuts” and “supply side economics” worked rather well.