California lost tens of thousands of people over the past decade. From 2010 to 2022, about 8.5 million people moved out. Who’s Leaving California—and Who’s Moving In? – Public Policy Institute of California (ppic.org).
The mere mention of the name Ayn Rand to a liberal makes their hair bristle and blood boil. Her famous book Atlas Shrugged is derided by those on the left as being cruel and heartless. Here she wrote a book way back in 1957 that had a female as its main character and as a Vice President of a major railroad at a time when that was unheard of and the feminists scoffed and ridiculed her. If she had been a liberal she would be canonized by the left for having a strong woman in leadership as the main character.
Ayn Rand
There are a myriad of reasons for this all of which are due to the policies of the far left and inept and callous politicians thinking that California’s great climate is enough to keep the wealthy from leaving. Like Kamala Harris, the politicians in California think they can just keep adding taxes and fees to paper over their massive debt. State workers there get exorbitant salaries of an average of over $120,000.00 and perks, pensions and early retirements at an average of age 59 fit for kings and queens. If you ask them they deserve every penny.
Unless something drastic is done in California, they will crumble into third-world status within the next decade. But, this is happening in other Democrat-run states as well. Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois and New York are losing their higher income earners because of high taxation, high crime and decline in living standards primarily due to the tens of millions of illegal aliens waved through under the terrible reign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
They are fleeing to more tax and people-friendly states which not so surprisingly are run mainly by conservatives. This alone should tell anyone who uses logic that conservative policies are better for the people. Does this make those states see the light and change their policies? Not at all. They double and triple down on them. The reason is that they have to. Once government workers get used to their high salaries and low workloads there is no turning back. Once the public gets used to “free” services there is no taking them away. There is no salary high enough or ever enough free items.
This brings us to the debate last night between Trump and Harris. She has not laid out her platform except she says she would have free medical for all (State-run), give money to people to start a business, and $25,000.00 to buy a home. While those things sound good, how does she plan on paying for them? If one of your three free guesses is to tax the achievers even more, you win the door prize. She was not asked that question in the debate. The moderators want her to win.
The “Atlases” in many Democrat-run states have shrugged and left for states that are friendly to hard workers instead of more friendly to the illegal immigrants she and her Democrat friends imported for future votes and jobs they provide to the millions of government workers that vote primarily Democrat.
But what happens if and when Kamala and her equally far-left Vice President Walz take over and enact various executive orders both legal and illegal giving money to those who never earned it by taking it from those who did? Where can the Atlases flee to? This is why many Democrats don’t like the fact that we are individual states and think we should be globalists taking in all of the world’s impoverished and poor out of compassion. When America is saddled with high taxes like Europe there is no turning back the clock.
Speaking of Europe, I was chatting with a fellow from there and he crowed about the “free medical” they get. So, I did a little research and found that Europe has this little thing called VAT which is an Value Added Tax that is applied to everything. In some places in Europe, the VAT alone is 27% with the average being 21.5%. The average income tax is 30%, and last but not least the individual pays 20.45% towards social security with the employer matching that!! I got back to the person mentioned above and asked him to tell me again about his wonderful “free” medical coverage and I have not heard back.
There is nothing free in this world. Anything that we get for free comes from the labor of others. Europe is what Kamala dreams of. Make no mistake about it the free down payment of $25,000., the free money to start a business, the equity programs for the poor, and the care and feeding of the homeless all come at a heavy price.
