I don't believe the figures they're peddling.
Which figures that who's peddling? Since you're being vague, I'll assume that you mean California's tax revenues for 2020 as the income tax rates that I sited are in plain view for anyone to see.
If that's what you're referring to, then I'm not surprised you don't believe their numbers and I can tell you why you don't. I can also tell you why their numbers are right and why California was surprised that their revenue exceeded their estimates from earlier in the year. They anticipated having to dip into the funds that Governor Brown had saved from the previous surplus years to cover a recession, but instead finished with a surplus.
I'll start with why you don't believe the state is accurately and faithfully complying with the laws that require an accurate accounting of their finances. You're unwilling to believe anything that doesn't fit your predigested and preconceived notions of heroes and villains in the world. Anything that doesn't fit your extremely narrow ideological view of the world is rejected and just bounces off. You'd prefer to believe that the Democratic elected officials that head the several agencies and departments which collect and report financial data are conspiring to violate the law and report false data—rather than accept that a state run by Democrats could manage their finances reasonably well, bring in surpluses instead of deficits, and survive a pandemic and recession year in good financial condition.
California is dominated by Democrats in their state government and therefore must be a failing state in your view. That's why you make statements lacking any evidence that they're broke. That's why you make evidence free assertions that the state is losing their tax base due to the loss of wealthy residents fleeing in "droves". You don't need evidence to form a point of view, it's predetermined before you see any evidence. Any evidence to the contrary must be a lie or ignored. If you can't avoid contrary evidence, you bob and weave like a boxer on defense. You distract, minimize, and divert with rambling responses that avoid questions and evidence you'd prefer not to address. You have an arsenal of tools that you use to protect your ideological viewpoint and to avoid anything that conflicts with it.
I asked you for some evidence of how many wealthy residents California is losing and gaining that support their income tax base. Your rambling dodge of a response... You discuss housing costs; property taxes; NewYork, New Jersey and Florida; Governor Cuomo; gasoline cost; Trump; Zoom jobs; your residential history; and who pumps your gas. Absolutely
none of which relates in
any way whatsoever to my post about income taxes in California or the questions that I asked about your assertions. Something that comes as no surprise in any of your posts or replies.