It’s hard to have sympathy for people who choose to live in California.

It’s their business, after all, if they want to be domiciled in a state where the taxes are crushing, the price of gasoline is out of sight, and the state government is teetering on the edge of collapse under the weight of presidential wannabe Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policies.

The people who’ve been leaving are smart. It’s not just millionaires and billionaires who’ve fled or are planning to flee, because the state legislature is preparing to adopt some version of Newsom’s annual tax on total wealth. That would be an atrocity in and of itself and is, parenthetically, an egregious trespass on the right to privacy. Democrats like Newsom are apparently only interested in keeping government out of our bedrooms. They welcome its intrusion into our bank accounts, investments, and estate plans.

Based on what we know, the outmigration has taken jobs with it. It’s produced revenue losses where estimates projected gains. California is “golden” no more. Those of you of a literary mind should note that over the past few years, more people have moved from California to Oklahoma than have gone in the other........

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