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Subject:  Re: California vs Texas Date:  2/13/2013  7:25 PM
Author:  FoolishVintner Number:  671470 of 722829

Taxes don't affect behavior and liberalism is not a mental disorder. And the enlightened folks in California elected Governor Moonbeam, liberal to the core. Ya think they are feeling it yet?

Yes, we are feeling it. Thankfully:


I don't know why it never occurs to the California bashers that there might be a number of reasons why people are willing to pay more to live in California than in a Super Walmart mecca like Texas. If you want to use these cherry-picked statistics to bash California, as if it's a *bad* thing for a state's lifestyle and real estate values to command higher prices, you'd be forgetting some basic free market principles in order to do it.
