{"id":10321,"date":"2009-11-16T18:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T01:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10321"},"modified":"2009-11-16T18:41:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T01:41:37","slug":"how-can-a-flat-and-dusty-bumpkintopia-like-texas-outgrow-a-paradise-on-earth-like-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10321\/how-can-a-flat-and-dusty-bumpkintopia-like-texas-outgrow-a-paradise-on-earth-like-california\/","title":{"rendered":"How can a flat and dusty bumpkintopia like Texas outgrow a paradise on earth like California?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A clip from a fascinating City Journal<\/em> article on the differences in taxes and services among the states and how that affects growth:<\/a><\/p>\n

If California doesn\u2019t want to be Texas, it must find a way to be a better California. The easy thing about being Texas is that the government has a great deal of control over the part of its package deal that attracts consumer-voters\u2014it must merely keep taxes low. California, on the other hand, must deliver on the high benefits promised in its sales pitch. It won\u2019t be enough for its state and local governments to spend a lot of money; they have to spend it efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n

The optimistic assessment is that things are going to get worse in California before they get better. The pessimistic assessment is that they\u2019re going to get worse before they get much worse. As is often the case, hanging around with the pessimists is less fun but more instructive. The current recession has driven California\u2019s state government into what amounts to a five-month budget cycle, according to Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee. He estimates that the budget deal tortuously wrought in July should start falling apart in October, because it was predicated on pie-in-the-sky revenue estimates and because so many of its spending cuts are being challenged, often successfully, in the courts.<\/p>\n

The recession will eventually end and California\u2019s finances will improve, say the optimists. Given the state\u2019s pervasive political bias against efficient and effective public services, however, the question is whether its finances will ever get truly well. States that have grown accustomed to thinking of the engine that drives their economies as an inexhaustible resource\u2014whether it\u2019s Michigan and the auto industry, New York and Wall Street, or California and the vision of the sunlit good life that used to attract new residents\u2014find it tough to compete again for what they thought would be theirs forever, and to plan budgets for lean years that turn into lean decades. Instead, they invest their hopes in a deus ex machina<\/em> that will rescue them from the hard choices they dread.<\/p>\n

For California\u2019s governmental-industrial complex, a Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A clip from a fascinating City Journal article on the differences in taxes and services among the states and how that affects growth: If California doesn\u2019t want to be Texas, it must find a way to be a better California. 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