Victor Davis Hanson: One California — or two? (concentrating on the importance of over-taxation and over-regulation is like concentrating on the rivets in the tank that is flattening your house)

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HANSON: One California — or two?

Victor Davis Hanson

In the past 20 years, 3.4 million middle- and upper-middle-class Californians have fled paradise for low- or no-tax states. In contrast, the state currently has had the largest influx of residents who immigrated illegally. Although exact numbers are impossible to obtain, estimates suggest that about 3 million Latin American nationals are residing in California. Many are hardworking immigrants, but most arrive illegally, don’t speak English, and don’t have money or a high school education.

Ensuring foreign nationals minimum parity with U.S. citizens requires huge state inputs in education, law enforcement and health services. The 2012 census listed California as having the highest poverty level (23.5 percent) of any state in the union. A state with roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population is now home to 33 percent of the nation’s welfare recipients.

What, then, is the state’s strategy for recovery? More taxes, regulations and government. . . .

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/12/hanson-one-california-or-two/?page=2

     Yes, over-taxation and over-regulation: bad. Just the right amount of taxation and regulation: good. However, due to the federal government's post-1965 open-borders policies, California, the off-ramp to the Third World, is becoming a third-world state, as all other US states are demographically, culturally and economically sure to follow. 

     California's state government is an outgrowth of that invasion and that increasing third-world status. The Sierra Nevada counties and most counties east of there and north-east of SF, an area larger than some entire states, are not coastal, nor wealthy, nor liberal. It is just that they have not yet been demographically overwhelmed and smothered.

      As in the rest of the nation, once they are, a majority of voters will start electing Multicultural Marxists and nonwhites. Yes, over-taxation and over-regulation are part of it, but it is like concentrating on the importance of the rivets in the tank that is flattening your house.