Time for another roundup of Texas vs. California news:
I would say California is broke again, but it’s been so long since California wasn’t broke that it would have to be “California Still Broke,” which isn’ t exactly news…
How unions and big government hijacked California: “A state with 12 percent of the country’s population and one third of its welfare recipients. A state with the nation’s lowest bond ratings, the second-highest marginal income tax rate and the third highest unemployment rate. Most important – a state that CEOs rank the worst in the country for doing business. Dead last! For the eighth year in a row.”
How California’s liberals destroy middle class jobs.
Texas gets an A+ for small business friendliness, while California gets an F.
California is great at exporting. Exporting jobs and citizens, that is.
And the rate businesses are leaving California is increasing.
California’s poor business ranking is now the norm:
Gov. Jerry Brown insists those who say California is unfriendly to business are wrong. But Mr. Brown, of course, is not the chief executive officer of a private business. He is the top executive of a deficit-burdened, intrusive, bloated government bureaucracy that has perfected squandering other peoples’ money while botching delivery of services such as education and lavishing public employees with unaffordable pay and benefits.
California public school teachers are the nation’s highest-paid, while their students’ performance ranks among the worst. The state’s various unfunded pension and retirement health care benefits promise to bankrupt the already overextended government.
California is following the French fiscal model. I would have said Greece, but close enough for government work.
Finally, I’ll close with a tweet from the indispensable Iowahawk: “It’s a proven fact that government creates jobs. As long as the governments are in California & Illinois, and the jobs are in Texas.”
Tags: Budget, California, Regulation, Texas, unions
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