With The Stroke Of A Pen, Gov. Jerry Brown Will Suffocate California's Economy Even More

Forbes ^ | 09/18/2013 | Travis H. Brown

[ExTexasRedhead]

Kind of like Germany before they hauled the Jews off to the camps, ya think?

[InterceptPoint]

Dear Jerry:

I know your heart is in the right place. But you should understand that $10/hr is only $400/week and that’s about $20,000 a year. And that’s only true if my employer doesn’t cut my hours to 29.5 per week to make me ineligible for my badly needed Obamacare.

YOU EXPECT ME TO LIVE ON THAT???!!!

I suggest that $50/hr would be much more appropriate. That’s about a $100,000 a year and what I would call “a living wage”. So if you want my vote in the next election you will heed this warning. Either you are on our side or you are a secret Freeper or something like that.

[null and void]

Not so much a has-been as a never-was...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The best thing Forbes could do would be to set up an economic tracker for California.

Importantly, only a limited number of businesses are required to notify the state before they leave, so are easy to track. Most businesses just shut down, pack up and leave, with little or no notice, as long as they pay their final taxes before going.

But along with business departures, they could track state unemployment, food stamps, declining tax revenue as well as increasing tax rates across the board, durable goods orders, and many other business metrics.

The most important part would be to associate economic decline with particular policies. This would be very instructional to other states as to what *not* to do, and projected impact if they make similar law.

[SeekAndFind]

Here's one nice handy chart:

[SeekAndFind]

And here's another that tells the NET MIGRATION INTO AND OUT OF California. New Yorkers and Illinois residents seem to find their states even worse that the Golden State.

[Billthedrill]

Dang it, we’re Number Seven. Time to set up some barricades.

[HotHunt]

The recall just threw a couple of the bums out of office. It didn’t do anything to alter the strict gun control laws that the DemoRATS passed and the governor signed into law. They still stand. So it was more for show than for substance.

Unfortunately, the liberals from out of state have flooded the urban areas, Denver especially, and turned a decidedly red state into an almost blue one. That’s because most of the population resides in the cities.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Unions push min wages because their wages are tied to it.”

Bing, Bing, Bing, we have a winner! Unions have outlived their purpose and should be outlawed.

[mrsmel]

I don't know-leftists are pretty oblivious to consequences and correlations-my worry is that the only thing they'll take from this is that it hurts their bottom line, and they'll move to another state, and do the same thing all over again. Like they've done to Colorado, Washington state, etc.

Getting mugged, polar beared, sucker-punched, knifed, or having any of those things happen to their own children-even having their own children murdered-no longer compels leftists to see the error of their ways. These days, they instead double down on their leftist delusions.