Joel Kotkin has the numbers. Three states which have adopted California-style policies - Washington, Oregon, and Colorado - are beginning to experience the same out-migration that California has suffered.
Not surprisingly, new business formation and population growth are down in all three states, as their taxes and Net Zero environmental regulations have risen, along with crime, homelessness, and new home prices.
As a result, the ideological sort continues.
Meanwhile, these same unhelpful policies have taken the economy of Germany, once the strongest in Europe, and made it a loser. Their new Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently announced they can no longer afford their elaborate welfare state. Former chancellor Angela Merkel merits most of the blame for the fix in which the Germans find themselves.
