In today's Washington Post, columnist George F. Will gives a short, but very important primer on how California is on its way to being "a failed state".
Mr. Will points out that this downward spiral did not happen over night. It took many a moon for us to get into the position that we are now in as a state.
Here is a money paragraph that sheds some light on part of the reason for California's economic travails:
It took years for liberalism's redistributive itch to create an income tax so steeply progressive that it prompts the flight from the state of wealth-creators: "Between 1990 and 2007," Voegeli writes, "some 3.4 million more Americans moved from California to one of the other 49 states than moved to California from another state."
Now, not all of the 3,400,000 that left California for greener pastures were what can be called "wealth-creators" to be sure. But what has replaced these people are not anywhere equal. They are immigrants, legal and illegal. People that do not have a high level of education. Many are low-wage workers. And many are actually a drain on public resources.
As they say, read the whole thing.
It kind of makes me wonder why anyone would want to be governor of this state.
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