Lack of Political Will

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research has issued a report analyzing the outmigration from California. I particularly like the concluding paragraph of the Executive Summary:

Population change, along with the migration patterns that shape it, are important indicators of fiscal and political health. Migration choices reveal an important truth: some states understand how to get richer, while others seem to have lost the touch. California is a state in the latter group, but it can be put back on track. All it takes is the political will.

Today, California exhibits none of that political will. The Brown administration and Democratic majorities in both houses of the State legislature in Sacramento are very much part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.