{"id":11300,"date":"2011-09-16T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2011-09-16T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:45:12","slug":"california-almost-leading-the-nation-in-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11300\/california-almost-leading-the-nation-in-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"California (Almost) Leading the Nation in Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/money_co\/2011\/09\/california-unemployment.html\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s unemployment is now 12.1 percent<\/a> statewide, 25 percent higher than the national average, and second only to Nevada\u2019s 13.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, California politicians have prided themselves on being \u201cfirst in the nation\u201d on numerous job-killing efforts such as <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/kmooney\/2011\/01\/13\/proponents-of-californias-global-warming-law-were-against-renewables-before-they-were-for-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">fanciful global warming regulations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/plf.typepad.com\/plf\/2011\/06\/the-structural-unfairness-of-the-coastal-commission.html\" target=\"_blank\">onerous land use regulations<\/a>, and stupefying bans on products like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,354117,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mylar balloons<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/nov\/17\/local\/la-me-plastic-bags-20101117\" target=\"_blank\">plastic bags<\/a> at grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Troy wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2011\/cjc0914ts.html\" target=\"_blank\">painfully insightful piece<\/a> on yet another attempt to wage war on business by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (higher taxes on commercial property).<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s political class cannot resist the siren song of being the first to put the screws to the engines of economic growth.\u00a0 If Villaraigosa\u2019s plan becomes reality, perhaps the Golden State will finally be first in a category no one should want: unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times reports that California\u2019s unemployment is now 12.1 percent statewide, 25 percent higher than the national average, and second only to Nevada\u2019s 13.4 percent. For decades, California politicians have prided themselves on being \u201cfirst in the nation\u201d on numerous job-killing efforts such as fanciful global warming regulations, onerous land use regulations, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,19,205,1541,27,2760,300,18],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-economy","tag-global-warming","tag-growth","tag-jobs","tag-property-rights","tag-regulation","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}