[ofcourseyoudo]

>Implicit behind your sentiment is the idea that the "train-wreck" policies in California is causative of the high incomes

Quite a straw man you built there! I hold no such opinion.

> Reasonable, empathetic people are capable of thinking that "gender-affirming care" is an ideologically-driven phenomenon

No reasonable, empathetic people that are in any genuine contact with trans kids are likely to feel this way, considering suicide rates and mental health outcomes of gender-affirming healthcare.

>Do you feel the same way about Virginia (second highest per capita federal balance of payments), New Mexico (4th), or Maine (9th)?

Are people from those states voicing the opinion that their states are well-function oases relative to the "train-wreck" that is California? I haven't heard much of it. Yet it's pretty common for red-state folks to rag on California as if their welfare governments aren't benefiting from our homofemitrans tax dollars.

>in aggregate

lol, this is a profoundly unserious point