During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is virtually chasing taxpayers and companies out of the state with a massive state deficit, rising taxes, crippling regulations, and wasteful programs.
Recently, Gavin Newsom boasted, “California isn’t just keeping pace with the world — we’re setting the pace.” Recent data shows he is right. There is a record number of U-Hauls fleeing the state — more than any other state. Indeed, the only thing harder to find than a wealthy taxpayer in California appears to be a U-Haul.
According to U-Haul’s data, the state is again leading blue states in the exodus. The Washington Post noted this week that “California came in last. Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and New Jersey rounded out the bottom five. Of the bottom 10, seven voted blue in the last election.” Conversely, “nine of the top 10 growth states voted red in the last presidential election,” with Texas again leading the growth states.
The Post wrote that the conclusions are inescapable: “People want to live in pro-growth, low-tax states, while the biggest losers tend to be places with big governments and high taxes.”
What is most striking is how Democratic politicians and many voters are simply defying the data and logic. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents part of Silicon Valley, recently mocked billionaires moving to escape a planned wealth tax. Some of us have criticized the tax as perfectly moronic for a state with the highest tax burden, soaring deficit, and shrinking tax base.
The “2026 Billionaires Tax Act” would impose a one-time 5% tax on individual wealth exceeding $1 billion. While technically using 2026 wealth figures, it would apply to billionaires who resided in California in 2025. So you cannot hope to flee… at least with your wealth intact. It is a penalty for those who stay too long hoping that rational minds would prevail in California.
Yet, Rep. Khanna mocked his own constituents planning to flee the state, quoting FDR in saying ‘I will miss them very much.”
Indeed, you will. Democrats continue to act as if wealthy citizens are a type of captive audience. They are expected to be voluntary prey in a canned hunt for wealthy taxpayers. Many have chosen to take their money and businesses elsewhere.
As I discuss in my forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, there is a common myth that the top five percent of this country do not “pay their fair share.” However, putting that debate aside, the question is whether it will produce more revenue than it costs the state in the long run. As these politicians campaign on clipping the “fat cats” who are not paying their fair share, many are likely to follow the exodus to lower tax states with greater fiscal discipline.
From New York to California, Democrats are pitching new programs from free buses to state-run stores to reparations as their tax bases contract. San Francisco recently approved the reparations plan that could give up to $5 million to qualified residents. The city faces a billion-dollar deficit, yet it continues to assume greater debt obligations.
Once again, denying basic economics will only lead to a rude awakening when these leaders, to quote Margaret Thatcher, “run out of other people’s money.”
“there is a common myth that the top five percent of this country do not “pay their fair share.””
This is, in fact, true. They used to be subject to a 90% marginal tax rate, back when America was a manufacturing powerhouse that had a rapidly expanding middle class; the halcyon days when America was great. It’s fair because they don’t do any more labor or put in any more effort in proportion to their extraction of wealth by dint of monopoly control of various markets.
Isn’t this exactly what is desired by the Republicans? Why so bitter about it to complain so much?
Look at California’s demographics:
30% of the population receiving some form of welfare.
20% of the state are illegals.
15% of California labor works under the table.
50% of the state population is stoned.
The voting system is corrupt to the core.
There is improvement, but Calif related media is lacking. There is little “harsh glare of reporters”.
My dig-bat little house is worth 1/2 million.
Most red states are worse. Far worse.
The similarity between California and Venezuala is hard to miss. Beautiful with both stunning beaches and mountains, resource rich and hard working population.
Then they voted themselves into a neo-communist wreck. Communism/Marxism/Liberalism/Progressivism/Democrat… all the same thing and everything worth anything that it touches turns to shyte.
The similarity between California and Venezuala is hard to miss. … Really? You obviously missed it. Lay off the drugs.
Ooohhhh a Kalifornia street critter speaks up! Wants to match his San Francisco street dump witn a verbal dump here.
Do us a solid and use some toilet paper on that anus we can see in the middle of your face after spewing that
They allowed the theft of their votes to be mechanically stolen by DieBold and Dominion.
Turley– “Some of us have criticized the tax as perfectly moronic for a state with the highest tax burden, soaring deficit, and shrinking tax base.”
Yes, that’s what it looks like. I think the schools are to blame.
Also, maybe we are evolving down.
Underground fish lose their eyes.
Big Fat birds lose the use of their wings.
Californians lose their brains,
Science.
The left ruins anything that they have influence on.
The right too.
Anyone stupid enough to believe this new exit Hotel California tax will stop at billionaires? In 1913, only the very rich would pay income tax. That didn’t last too long. You can never leave Hotel California. The Eagles were prophets.
Layoff the drugs.
It seems obvious that the governors in the states from which people are fleeing are accomplishing their purpose which is precisely to destroy these great states and cities: California — so beautiful, New York City — so grand. Too bad we are being destroy with great purpose and care on many levels — psychologically, emotionally, and the power which has been seen in the previous great Detroit of car manufacturing, and many other examples. If people only knew or recognized what is happening to them, and the greatest creation of mankind the world has ever known — the USA.The founders were extraordinary men of great intellect and integrity and the citizens are just uneducated to the beginnings and to their role as the sovereign.
Layoff the drugs–comrade.
That giant suckering sound is Fox News viewers believing no one wants to live in California anymore. Traffic on the Ventura Freeway hasn’t gotten any lighter and LA real estate is still a slam-dunk of an investment (assuming you can afford a house).
That giant sucking sound is the performance rating of CNN viewers from the Democrat-Mainstream Media Propaganda Complex failing at claiming Fox is the reason most new residents of Kalifornia are Illegal Aliens to replace the successful Americans fleeing Kalifornia.
Your move, Tovarisch.
That giant suckering sound is readers of these comment threads thinking all these redundant, pro-MAGA comment are really different people speaking as a mob.
That giant suckering sound last night was of the gay boys getting action at the bath house in West Hollywood, L. A. which blocked you from entering. The staff saw your micro appendage with a Trans flag popping out of it and they laughed you out or the establishment. Troll harder limp one
For years, born Americans have moved out of California. Population growth has come from immigrants and their progeny.
ANON 11:43pm – Are you so stupid to believe that the exodus out of California isn’t real, and commercial real estate is increasingly left vacant ??? Check the unemployment numbers. I know of 3 individual families that are leaving before summer. The left and revisionist-reality is a marriage made from mental-disorders.
Jes’ keep on a votin’ fer Dem Dam Dems, Dumb#ss.
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Venezuelans should see a real surge up in standard of living as will Cuba and Iran.
18 U.S. Code § 111 – Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees
(a) In General.—Whoever—
(1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or
(2) forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service, shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
(b) Enhanced Penalty.—
Whoever, in the commission of any acts described in subsection (a), uses a deadly or dangerous weapon (including a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective component) or inflicts bodily injury, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Shabbat shalom everyone 😊
Have a peaceful sabbath
Thank you trump, RFK Jr, and all the sycophantic sickos…
MAGM – Make America Get Measles Again
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/measles-continues-raging-in-south-carolina-99-new-cases-since-tuesday/
Of course, clown, blame Trump and RFK Jr. It makes you look so “with it,” so woke.
You need to spank yourself for not doing your homework.
I guess you forgot about vaccine resistance in the 1960s and 1970s, and the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
“all across the country, newly formed local organizations, largely libertarian, began taking aim at laws requiring vaccines for school, calling for repeals and personal-belief exemptions to be added to medical and religious exemptions and gradually getting them. By the dawn of the 1990s, then, the country had an organized, national movement that was critical of vaccine safety, a separate movement working to erode mandates, and a dramatic resurgence of measles.”
As in the 1980s, when media attention homed in on a single component of a combined vaccine, reporters in the early 2000s narrowed their focus to the measles component of the MMR vaccine and a feared connection to childhood autism…Autism rates had climbed to unfathomable heights, a single study published in the prestigious journal The Lancet had proposed a connection to the MMR vaccine
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6410476/
last paragraph should also be in quotation marks
“From the 1990s to the early 2000s, vaccines against hepatitis B, rotavirus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, pneumococcal disease, influenza, chicken pox, hepatitis A, meningococcal disease, and human papillomavirus were added to the list of routine immunizations recommended….At first in chat rooms, and then later on blogs and social media, parents began to ask questions that echoed the questions of parents a generation before. Wasn’t chicken pox a harmless part of childhood? Why were their children being vaccinated against diseases they had never heard of? Why were they being vaccinated against diseases that would not spread in the classroom? And given all the negative publicity being directed toward drug companies, were all of these new vaccines assuredly safe?” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6410476/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6410476/
Sure, go ahead. Blame RFK and Trump.
Yeah, measles, from your ——- illegal alien invader scum.
Trump is trying to get rid of all the illegal immigrants who are bringing this and other disease that were eradicated in the US decades ago.
Measles was never eradicated in the US or anywhere! Even the most vaxxed countries have outbreaks – it’s cyclical. One of the side effects of the MMR vax listed on the package insert is…measles. It wasn’t long ago that everybody knew the childhood diseases were necessary for building a strong immune system, with lifetime immunity from these illnesses, which no vax can provide.
The part you didn’t post
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The outbreak is centered in the northwestern corner of the state, with cases concentrated in Spartanburg County. According to state data, in the 2024–2025 school year, only 90 percent of students in the county were fully vaccinated. That’s well below the target of 95.
Check out the year 2024 to. Who was in charge and letting millions of Illegals into the country.
What a fool you are
Measles never went away. Even the most vaccinated countries have outbreaks – it’s cyclical. One of the side effects listed on the package insert of the measles vax is…measles. I lose all respect for people who seem to have forgotten that it wasn’t long ago that EVERYBODY knew the childhood diseases were necessary for building a strong immune system, and the ONLY thing that would provide lifetime immunity.
Democrats are officially done, as in stick a fork in them. They are insignificant, inconsequential and seen as theatrical clowns. No wonder Americans despise them.
She isn’t cowering or panicked. She isn’t trying to escape. She’s taunting officers and interfering, fully aware of who they are. Officers repeatedly order her out of the vehicle. After the third command, she suddenly accelerates toward the agent standing in front of the car and strikes him. That alone disproves the idea that she was terrified for her life or simply trying to leave.
The notion that the officer wasn’t hit (or wasn’t hit hard) is wrong — impact is visible and audible as the vehicle moves. Claims that she didn’t know who she was confronting fall apart. And the idea that she had nothing to do with ICE operations is instantly undercut by her engagement with the agents in the video. This new footage doesn’t just challenge the left’s narrative about the shooting; it dismantles it. 
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/01/09/the-latest-ice-shooting-footage-changes-everything-but-not-for-the-left-n4948102
As if Trump is not?
President Donald J. Trump is WINNING!
@Anonymous
The dems are insane, in the clinical sense, ignorant thugs. All they are accomplishing is getting the majority that didn’t vote for them last November to not vote for them even harder in 2026, and take a bunch of new people with us. It really is madness. The latest edited video is the coup de grace in terms of insulting our intelligence.
And yet, the left seems to be getting stronger and stronger. We win a few battles but it still feels like the war is being lost. Every major city is controlled by radical socialist mayors and DAs. LA, NY, Chicago, Boston, Atl, DC, Denver, Dallas, Balt, and many more. They don’t even try to hide it any longer. There isn’t a reason to. No one blinked an eye when Walz casually threw out a comment about using the MN natl guard against the federal LE. Republicans are barely even able to hold a majority. If the Dems had run anyone other than Harris, they would have won the election. The lawfare that occurred last year was pointed out by many moderates, even some democrats like Turley, but the press couldn’t care less. We are not many chess moves away from being Brazil or Venezuela. If all we are relying on are a few SC justices to fix this mess, we are completely screwed.