This month’s Flying Pigs Award goes to (drumroll please…) angry leftist Bill Maher. Yes, amazingly enough, it appears that Maher is finally getting fed up with pulling more than his fair share of the wagon in the Golden Land of High Taxes. Speaking with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC earlier this week, he sounded almost cogent ~

“You know what? Rich people – I’m sure you’d agree with this – actually do pay the freight in this country.” 😯
 
“I just saw these statistics,” he continued, “I mean, something like 70 percent. And here in California, I just want to say liberals – you could actually lose me. It’s outrageous what we’re paying – over 50 percent. I’m willing to pay my share, but yeah, it’s ridiculous.”

 
And the fun never ends. Sacremento’s latest outrageous move is to actually tax retroactively: California businesses fuming over retroactive $120M tax grab. From Fox News ~

In December, the state’s tax authority determined that a tax break claimed over the past few years by 2,500 entrepreneurs and stockholders of California-based small businesses is no longer valid and sent out notices of payment.
 
“How would you feel if you made a decision, which was made four years ago, (and) you absolutely knew was legally correct and four years later a governing body came in and said, ‘no, it’s not correct, now you owe us a bunch more money. And we’re going to charge you interest on money you didn’t even know you owed’,” Brian Overstreet told Fox News from his office north of San Francisco.

Businesses can’t operate in a climate where the rule of law is increasing ignored – anymore than the rest of society can.
 
Now that Bill Maher gets it, what’s it gonna take for the rest of the productive class in California to wake up?