{"id":6335,"date":"2014-10-03T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/exiting-california\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:56:29","slug":"exiting-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/exiting-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiting California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/windmills.jpg' alt='Lisa Benson Cartoon' width='550' \/><\/p>\n<p>We are now completely disassociated with Kalifornistan, save for our friends and relatives there. We will go back for visiting purposes, but our money and property will be elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And, we&#8217;re not the only ones leaving the formerly Golden State. Millions of retirees, like us, are out of there. Plus, businesses and manufacturing jobs are moving. The <strong>Lisa Benson<\/strong> cartoon above adds some snark, but a very good article by <strong>Daniel J. Mitchell<\/strong> links the changes in California to a steady flow of jobs to Texas and other places.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.townhall.com\/columnists\/danieljmitchell\/2014\/10\/01\/texas-is-boomingbut-cnn-doesnt-want-you-to-know-why-n1898980?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=facebook\">Townhall.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Much of my writing is focused on the real-world impact of government policy, and this is why I repeatedly look at the relative economic performance of big government jurisdictions and small government jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t just highlight differences between nations. Yes, it\u2019s educational to look at North Korea vs. South Korea or Chile vs. Venezuela vs. Argentina, but I also think you can learn a lot by looking at what\u2019s happening with different states in America.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ve looked at high-tax states that are languishing, such as California and Illinois, and compared them to zero-income-tax states such as Texas.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, you can understand that I was intrigued to see that even the establishment media is noticing that Texas is out-pacing the rest of the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.townhall.com\/columnists\/danieljmitchell\/2014\/10\/01\/texas-is-boomingbut-cnn-doesnt-want-you-to-know-why-n1898980?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=facebook\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now completely disassociated with Kalifornistan, save for our friends and relatives there. We will go back for visiting purposes, but our money and property&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-money","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}