Absolutely! As a society / culture, all but a few of us (or so it seems) have become so numb to massive taxation, that shit like this doesn't even register. It's insanity all on its own, aside from the fact that here in Taxifornia we are now running big deficits (again) so we can't afford it.
These deficits aren't being helped by the large number of businesses and high income earners fleeing the state like it's a burning building, which it pretty much is. And just because we are losing population for the first time in history, it doesn't mean our socialist leaders will stop taxing us. Actually, quite the opposite. It's not like they'll raise taxes on themselves, so they'll tax we the sheeple more to close the gap. It's sickening. (to paraphrase Reagan, there I go venting again...)