you
this is California while this state is
known for its glitz and glamour it is
also home to some of the highest real
estate prices highest taxes highest
homelessness population and highest
number of business regulations in many
parts of the state you've got tent
cities crime is out of control
look at the bottom percentile there are
people who are dying on our streets the
estimate is that 1,000 people will die
on the streets of Los Angeles all of
this combined with an extremely high
cost of living is forcing residents and
businesses to leave the state of record
numbers I'll tell you Californians when
they move to Texas they're shocked their
standard of living goes up 40 to 50
percent overnight is Texas the new
California the rivalry between Texas and
California the largest number of people
relocating to Texas are coming from
California and many of us are leaving
not only California but other liberal
states for a better lifestyle for for
our children
failed liberal policies are just simply
encouraging the situation people just
saying we can't put up with this anyways
and you just can't live like this
California and Texas both have large
amounts of land plenty of natural
resources minority majority populations
and are home to some of the country's
biggest corporations these similarities
match with their layering policy
differences makes them perfect for
comparison over half of Californians are
thinking of leaving the state and the
biggest reason why is the sky high cost
of living the cost of living in
California is somewhere between 40 and
50 percent higher than it is in Texas
houston you can get a three-bedroom
house for a couple hundred thousand
dollars with a backyard you can you can
your kids can play you can throw a ball
with your kids in the backyard you'd
have a good school try doing that in
California the state and local
governments are doing things to restrict
the development of new housing units in
the free market and they do this through
restrictions on building they do this
through things like rent control which
which disincentivizes the creation
new rental units and a set of disastrous
policies have contributed to to keeping
housing costs vastly growing cost of
Energy's higher the cost of gasoline and
transportation everything costs more in
California extensive environmental
regulations have also sharply raised the
energy cost in California where they are
50 percent higher than the national
average
over 1 million Californians live in what
is officially defined as energy poverty
it's very hard on a middle-class income
to live in this state many of them who
were born and raised in the state are
realizing that it's become unaffordable
and that's heartbreaking
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the left spends a lot of time and energy
talking about income inequality and ways
to fix it but ironically California the
great progressive experiment ranks
fourth in the list of states with the
highest level of income inequality and
second in the nation for the fastest
growing income inequality according to
the Census Bureau's supplemental poverty
measure California has the highest
poverty rate in the country
with one in five Californians living
below the poverty line California has
always had the nation's highest poverty
rate and proportionately it's about 30
percent higher than it is in Texas and a
third of the people on assistance in the
nation are in California so how is
California handling the growing poverty
rate in their state California spends
more than Texas Arizona South Dakota
North Dakota Colorado Utah Nevada Oregon
Idaho Hawaii Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma
Kansas Nebraska New Mexico and Montana
on welfare annually combined state and
local governments have spent a
gargantuan amount of money oftentimes
wastefully overlapping each other yet
the incredible spending has not
alleviated one of California's most
vexing problems in fact it seems to have
made it worse homelessness has taken
over California with the problem
developing into a state of emergency
and although homelessness is dropping
nationwide California with 12% of the
population houses 49 percent of the
nation's homeless one of the issues that
I face living here is the fear of the
homeless epidemic because a lot of these
homeless individuals they're drug
addicts some of our sex offenders and
that's become a huge problem there are
people defecating on the street right in
front of my apartment
we have syringes there we have a lot of
issues in California that are seem to be
blinded to you know this the policies
that come out of here and I don't think
the rest of the nation really
understands what's happening in
California and we see this not only here
not only on Skid Row but from San Diego
all the way on up to Sacramento San
Francisco every city is being impacted
by this if California were a country it
would have the fifth largest GDP in the
world California's economic engine is
driven by its overshirt size of
technology giants and small to midsize
businesses because of Californians hard
work and ingenuity they've been able to
create this economic behemoth yet this
state is trying to slay this golden
goose with suffocating business
regulations over the last ten years over
15,000 businesses have fled the state
and the pace is accelerating while Apple
Google Facebook and the other tech
giant's get talked about the most it is
California small businesses that are the
lifeblood of the state's economy
companies with less than a hundred
employees make up ninety eight percent
of all businesses in the state and
employ nearly 40% of its workforce these
businesses are what make California the
economic powerhouse that it is
I haven't made a profit in five years
and some of the servers here can make
between forty and fifty thousand dollars
a year because I have to pay the minimum
wage and they get tips and I end up with
nothing and that's for a that's for a
part-time job it's it's what is called
in the business first phase economics
right because it's an emotional choice
to feel good about giving the employee
more money never looking at the second
phase and what it does to business and
how it causes this domino effect of okay
I have to now let somebody go right I
have to raise my crisis in in the
restaurant it's it's a lose-lose for
everybody
you
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while California embodies the
progressive wing of US politics and
governments central roles in people's
lives
Texas represents a deeply contrasting
political ideology and has followed a
very different path the state's focus on
individual liberty and personal
responsibility stems from this frontier
identity and its decade of
self-determination as the Republic of
Texas it has voted Republican in every
presidential election over the past 36
years it is difficult to think of a
resonant issue being debated today that
doesn't find Texas in California on
opposite sides of the debate
Texas is all about freedom but that's
that's really the spirit of Texas Texas
is a a state where anybody can start
with nothing and achieve anything if you
look at the US Census Bureau's
interstate migration data you'll see
that the greatest number of people
leaving California go to Texas there are
lots and lots of jobs the economy is
growing there's prosperity wages are
going up low taxes low regulations free
enterprise in Texas we like jobs said
all of us I said even the Democrats like
jobs they don't how to get them but they
like them in direct contrast to
California one of the great draws into
Texas is the affordable cost of living
and you see that for example with a rent
for a two-bedroom apartment in San
Francisco versus Dallas it's more than
three times more expensive in San
Francisco California gallon of gas is
nearly four bucks a gallon Texas a
gallon of gas is just over $2 a gallon
you want to talk about making a
difference now listen if you're a tech
billionaire you don't care about $4 a
gallon gas your SUV goes to your private
jet you fill it up and it's all funny
money to you but how about to a
schoolteacher people who move to Texas
are shocked at their dramatic increase
in buying power when you couple low cost
of living with Texans keeping more of
their take-home pay California has the
highest taxes 13.3% top marginal tax
rate in California 13.3% you know what
it is in Texas zero not only our
individuals coming to Texas but so our
businesses and they're coming by the
thousands we met with one of those small
business owners who came to Texas
fleeing California's oppressive anti
business environment bringing with him
jobs capital and an auto restoration
business that over the course of its
life grew tenfold in size living in
California for 35 years of your business
did you see radical changes happening in
that state that made it harder for you
to keep your business open there were
tremendous changes yeah
particularly with the regulating body
called Bureau of auto repair that agency
I think that power-hungry to the point
where individuals would throw businesses
like mine under the bus to try to please
customer complaints no matter how small
they were to to further their own
careers no bureau of auto repair Texas
they've that's a good thing do you feel
like it's easier to to live out your
dream here in Texas senators in
California oh it's not it's not even
close yeah absolutely and Texas is a
great economy and it's so easy to be in
business way more freer here in regards
to less restrictions red tape so I was
in the auto repair business in
California they required city city fees
it required state fees environmental
fees you know you have all that overhead
to start with on your shoulders and and
then all those regulating bodies to
please whereas here you can just be you
can just immediately open up
when you think of Texas industry you
think of oil and beef but the reality is
Texas has as many Fortune 500 companies
based there as California and has an
incredibly robust high-tech and startup
sector Texas innovates in it when it
comes to high-tech you look at Austin
for example where high-tech companies
are moving in like crazy venture capital
companies are moving in like crazy and
hopefully you have hundreds or thousands
of small businesses being formed to take
on the next big business in the next
visit and it's that creative destruction
that drives the economy forward that
innovates that's what creates
opportunities that's where new jobs come
from that's why young people are moving
to Texas because Texas is where the jobs
are Texas is where you can make a future
and and provide for your family
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as the cost of living is increasing and
the quality of life is decreasing you're
seeing a lot of Californians flee to
Texas flee to Florida flee to Tennessee
flee to Montana and elsewhere nobody
wants to just hand over their money
nobody wants to give up so much of that
that money that they've earned to the
government I want to be able to sell as
much as I can to make the most amount of
profit that I can that I can hire more
people and open up a second place right
but sometimes I don't think I don't
think I would open a second place here
maybe that would be in a different state
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the divergent paths that these two
states have taken are purely a result of
the political choices that they have
made the disastrous results of
California's progressive ideology stand
in stark contrast to the Lone Star
state's conservative policies that have
led to the Texas miracle thank you for
watching this video
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