Long Live The Left...
The seduction of federalizing leftist ideology is belied by the real world experience of state governance. So write the editors of today's Wall Street Journal in which they describe the experience of three states who adopted leftist policies. The residents of New York, New Jersey, and California are faced with heavy tax burdens arising from financing huge welfare states. Moreover, these formerly rich states are governed by capitals dominated by public-employee unions and are infamous for job losses, booming deficits and debt, wage stagnation, out-migration and laughing-stock legislatures. At least Americans have the ability to flee these ill-governed states for places that still welcome wealth creators.
The debate in Washington now is whether to spread this antigrowth model across the entire country. Unfortunately, the movement to extend the principles that brought these three states to the brink of ruin to the federal goverment appears to be winning.
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