You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
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We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.
You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations, the answer is simple: Democratic politicians, who have near-total political control of California and of America's biggest cities, support this massive transfer of wealth to public employees.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.
Government is just spending too much money.
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