Posted on 06/25/2011 2:19:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Everywhere I go, I am met by California taxpayers and business owners who love their state. But they share the stories of their search to go elsewhere or else their exit plan if things get much worse, economically. Some of this is idle chat, but many people are serious,...
.....Californians have always embraced a form of exceptionalism, believing that the normal rules don't apply out here. But while I love that the old Midwestern and Eastern social mores don't matter so much on the Left Coast, there's no escaping the laws of economics.
Entrepreneurs go into the private sector, where they take risks, innovate, and create jobs and fortunes. The private sector fills the public sector's coffers with cash, whereas the public sector burns through the money on its endless commissions and high salaries, runs up billions of dollars in unfunded retirement liabilities, complains that it can't do its job because of tough economic times, and then demands higher taxes. Bad businesses go belly up. Bad bureaucracies never go away and they always lobby for more money...
Texas has many flaws, but at least the leaders there seem to understand the importance of private investment and the limits on government. It's sad, in a way, that California leaders need to make such a trek to remind themselves of those simple, timeless lessons, and that I even need to devote a column raising these obvious points.
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The answer to all these questions is simple: Do less. Govern less. Spend less. Let the market work. Then the jobs will flow, and the public coffers will be filled again.
This isn't about Texas, but about enterprise and freedom. Until California voters understand that, it's going to be a long time before we are prosperous again.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Enjoy...
Got a clear blue sky, about 76 degrees, with a mild on-shore Pacific breeze... Somehow, I'll tough it out here.
Best of luck!
Where in Ca are you?
Good for you. If I wanted to live there I could live there too but there are too many JERKS there now. I’d rather live around nice people than in a great climate around someone so rude. It was uncalled for when I was just saying that different people look for different attributes when they decide where to live. Don’t bother explaining what the climate is like in California after I wrote that I lived there in all parts of the state for many years. The SOCIAL climate in California sucks. SYWFT.
Beginning next year, Gov. Brown will be taxing that breeze.
The year round weather here alone is worth a *fortune* to us...Ya it cost a bit more, but well worth it for us!
Cheers!
The weather’s nice in Zimbabwe, too.
Stuck where you are, I understand your anger..
Good luck Lacy
Societal rust?
The sunny pool eh?
lol...As if Pennsylvania don't have queers and freaks.. BTW, I believe the photo you posted is out of the Philadelphia gay pride parade..
If you'd like to see more images of PA gay festivities, leemme know lacy...
We are taking the jump. Born and raised in CA. We have lived in Southern Cal, Central Cal and now Northern Cal...i’m 45 and a business owner. As much as I will miss our current community, friends and our family...it’s doesn’t make economical sense to stay any longer. We are conservative and don’t like the liberl loons who are destroying our state. Yes we have nice weather...but how much time do we really spend outside. And with housing so much more affordable there, we can buy a home with a pool...so if it’s hot..we shall swim :) The schools are rated high in the area’s we are looking to move and a conservative attitude prevails! We like the idea of keeping over 20$ we pay in State income tax in CA, not to mention cheaper everything...32% cheaper to live in TX. We want to enjoy our life...not give our hard earned money to a bozo state. Things are going to get really bad here in CA, really bad. Housing prices will continue to go down as more business’ leave and the middle class...I hope they change coarse...so in my old age I can see California back in her glory!!!
Welcome.
I’ve traveled (and lived) all over the United States (and traveled abroad) and I will tell you now, Texans will win your heart.
As you’ll often see stuck on TX car bumpers,
“I wasn’t born in TX but I got here as fast as I could.”
Have a good landing.
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