{"id":7410,"date":"2010-10-19T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2010-10-19T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:08:14","slug":"texas-still-thumping-california-on-economic-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7410\/texas-still-thumping-california-on-economic-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Still Thumping California on Economic Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, we profiled how federalism is alive and well in economic policy — as exemplified most explicitly in the sharp contrast between California and Texas<\/a> (a topic we’ve been exploring for nearly a year<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As John Steele Gordon points out <\/a>in the Contentions <\/em>blog over at Commentary’s website:<\/p>\n

It is often pointed out that the states make great laboratories for political-science experiments. And an experiment has been underway for quite a while testing the liberal model \u2014 high taxes,\u00a0extensive regulation,\u00a0many government-provided\u00a0social services, union-friendly laws \u2014 against the conservative model \u2014 low taxes, limited regulation and social services, right-to-work laws. The results are increasingly in. As Rich Lowry reports <\/a>in\u00a0National Review Online, the differences between California and Texas are striking. Between August 2009 and August 2010, the nation created a net of 214,000 jobs. Texas created more than half of them, 119,000. California lost<\/em> 112,000 jobs in that period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

California has always prided itself on being a leading indicator for the rest of the nation. We’ll see how well they like that designation when it turns out to mean being the canary in the coal mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, we profiled how federalism is alive and well in economic policy — as exemplified most explicitly in the sharp contrast between California and Texas (a topic we’ve been exploring for nearly a year). As John Steele Gordon points out in the Contentions blog over at Commentary’s website: It is often pointed out that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,1679,562,754,300,71,561],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-conservatism","tag-economics","tag-liberalism","tag-regulation","tag-taxes","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7413,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}