Long neglected by Democrats and Establishment GOP, something is finally being done about the insidious national emergency on our southern border. If it gets worse, even Mexico will build a wall on its perimeter with the rest of Central America. Stopped by the US, it has no choice as a more appropriate place of asylum for refugees sharing the same language and cultural background.
The federal government might well be getting more wall funding from unstable business environments like California, which recently cancelled a bullet train project between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
As reported by national news, President “Trump demands California return $3.5 billion in funds for state’s ‘disaster’ bullet train project.” A warning is also being sent to all such Democratic states who over-tax, over-spend, and over-regulate—driving businesses elsewhere and causing citizens to seek economic asylum in more conservative places. Sound familiar? Last November, this column warned readers to “Watch Out for California Transplants and Ballot Measures on the Way to South Dakota.”
Now Florida is becoming a South Dakota economic look-alike. Florida businessman Ed Pozzuoli writes in Fox News about “New Yorkers fleeing to Florida need to leave their terrible blue state policies behind as well”. He cites “a Census Bureau report late last year detailing the states that lost residents due to high taxes, overregulation and dwindling opportunities. Leading the list? New York. And it wasn’t just last year – 1 million people have packed and left that once-mighty jurisdiction since 2010.”
He argues that “our low-tax, business-friendly welcome to asylum seekers from Big Government states like New York and New Jersey. Two decades of sunny conservative state leadership has made Florida the nation’s freest state.” His advice should resonate well with South Dakota’s celebrated business climate: “My message to transplanted New Yorkers as well other transplants? Leave your blue-state perspectives at the door and vote for low-tax, pro-business government not only with your feet – but also at the ballot box.”
