""California has higher taxes and more regulators," he observed. "More regulators bring more rules. Businesses ask themselves, 'Where can I go where government bothers me less and takes less of my money?' There's no question it's Texas."
The U.S. Census Bureau just released estimates of the top 10 fastest-growing metropolitan areas, by population, from April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2011. Not one was in California."
None in California? Historically, that has to be the first.
"He also pointed out an interesting comparison. In the California Legislature, just 18 percent of the majority Democrats held jobs in business, farming or medicine before being elected; the rest came from backgrounds in government or community organizing, or were lawyers. By contrast, for Texas' majority Republicans in their legislature, 75 percent had been in medicine, business or farming. And in the Lone Star State, he added, even Democrats are more than twice as likely to have private-sector backgrounds than are their Democratic legislative counterparts in the Golden State.
"It's a cultural difference" he said of that dichotomy. "There's a different attitude here than in California." That attitude is one that understands that businesses need to be left alone to create products and jobs. By contrast, in California the "dream" – or delusion – is that jobs somehow are created by rubbing a magic lamp, then a genie appears named "high-speed rail" or "green jobs."
Lots of good stuff in this article which will be studiously ignored by our own home grown Democrats as they plunge the state deeper into the swamp of insolvency. Thanks, Progressives!
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