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It doesnt mean every thing you do is govt compensated. Its just that rural areas on average are subsidized by other areas.
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”Nobody goes there, anymore; it’s always too crowded!” —Yogi BerraCalifornia Was a Paradise, Then Newsom Happened
California was a paradise run by able governors from both parties. But now the state is collapsing, and at the center of it is Gavin Newsom.
People talk about the California disaster, but I don’t think we fully appreciate the severity and the manifestations of it. And the best barometer to discover that is how many people are leaving. It’s estimated that somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Californians left in ’25, ’26.
Now, the problem with that is they’re not leaving a barren state. They’re not leaving a cold Alaska. They’re leaving the most beautiful state in the country that for years under a bipartisan system of Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and to some extent Arnold Schwarzenegger, it had wonderful governance.
So, why are they leaving? Why have 11 to 12 million people, a quarter of the present population, left California?
Well, the Reason Foundation just did a comprehensive study of all the roads in all the states and ranked them according to congestion, quality of roads, bridges, everything. California was 49th, 49th in the country.
In terms of school scores, it’s down to about 40 to 41 in the nation, even though it’s 13th in the amount of money it spends. It’s got one-third of all the homeless people, maybe up to nearly a half in some studies.
It’s got a third of all the welfare recipients. Twenty-two percent of the people live below the poverty line.
Think of this. It has the highest gasoline taxes in the nation and the highest gas prices, and that’s a combination. It refuses to tap its considerable fifth-in-the-nation oil and natural gas reserves to the full extent that it could.
It shut down the timber industry. It shut down the mining industry.
So, we’re paying because of our green fanaticism on oil blends, and we’ve been driving out oil refineries, and we have these high taxes.
Elon already left CA for Austin. I do not blame him for looking at Florida. Its a lot closer to CA than Texas.
