To borrow from Ronald Reagan: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
What Reagan asked of the nation in 1980, we can ask of California today.
Is the state more affordable? Is it safer? Are the schools better? Are the roads easier to navigate? Are taxes lower? Is energy cheaper and more abundant?
Put another way: Under the (eight-year) watch of Gavin Newsom & Co., the state has badly regressed.
A just-released study from the Pacific Research Institute, a Pasadena-based think tank, adds an exclamation point:
Researchers found that Californians earn 20% more than the national average, yet have 35%lessdisposable income.
It’s also an indictment of this state and its elected officials — including Newsom, who incidentally wants a promotion.
In fact, it will take a starkly different leadership tack, and policies that defy an entrenched status quo, to ease California out of its current mess.
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Consider the soaring costs here: housing, food, electricity, gasoline, taxes — life. Just about any good or service.
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