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.”
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.
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.
OT
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.
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.