California is losing residents and Gavin Newsom has excuses | Washington Examiner

So far, it doesn t look like Newsom has a satisfactory explanation for voters who might be apprehensive about exporting his policies to their states.

When people discuss why they’re leaving California and yes, there is an entire genre of YouTube videos on this specific topic, by the way they do not usually cite visa policies. Some of them point out that lower-middle-class Californians pay income taxes at marginal rates higher than millionaires pay in most states (an astounding 9.1% of earnings above $61,000). Some of them mention the hostile business environment California Democrats have created, especially for those involved in freelance work and the gig economy. Some bring up rising crime and the prominent big city prosecutors who have made it worse by refusing to enforce the law.

Some of those leaving California blame the unnecessary and inconsistent pandemic restrictions that the state and its municipalities imposed (and that Newsom and other top leaders famously flouted). They talk about the extremely high cost of living a result of artificial housing shortages caused by widespread NIMBYism and paralysis in their one-party Democratic legislature.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

It’s bad.