Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
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Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play.
Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.
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