An Empirical Demonstration

Investor’s Business Daily provides one.

Renting a 20-foot truck one-way from San Francisco to San Antonio, for example, will cost $1,693. But the U-Haul tab to go in the opposite direction is just $983.

Hmm….

This figure compares, across just a few parameters, the outcome of big government, high taxes, and profligate spending—California—with the outcome of limited government, low taxes, and (more) disciplined spending—Texas.  Texas has many faults, but the routine of government interference with its citizens’ wallets and businesses isn’t among them.

California has become a state that people are increasingly trying to escape, and Texas a state people are increasingly migrating to.

A study by the Manhattan Institute found that Californians have been leaving for states with better job prospects, lower taxes and better business climates.

In other words, states that are pursuing the kind of low-tax, limited government, free market policies [President Barack] Obama typically rejects.

The public may have voted to give Obama a second term.  But many people in California are voting with their feet, leaving the state that’s already put in place policies Obama has promised to keep pushing for four more years.

Obamanomics, as California demonstrates—its economy actually shrank sharply in the last four years—are an utter failure.  RTWT.

Sufficient Reason

Turkey has officially requested NATO to send them uprated PAC-3 model Patriot missile batteries for deployment along their Syrian border, where al-Assad’s butchery has been spilling across.  I had considered refusing to arm the Turks after they called the Israelis terrorists for the heinous crime of defending themselves against Hamas’ overt terrorist attacks during the just (temporarily) concluded conflict.

Then came this.

The militarization of the Syrian-Turkish border is an alarming signal,” [Russian Foreign Ministry] spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.  “We have different advice for our Turkish colleagues—use their influence with the Syrian opposition to accelerate the start of a political dialogue.

And this:

“…in the military field, what is important is not intentions, but potential.  And when potential increases, the risks grow,” [Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov] said.

If the Russians don’t like a Turkey—which also sits astride the Dardanelles and the Strait of Bospherus—with the wherewithal to defend itself against incursion, then it’s not a bad idea.

NATO should expedite approval and the transfer and deployment of the missile systems.