Americans are fleeing California in droves. Over 86,000 people moved out of California to Texas alone in 2018, and they're still moving out of the state in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why? The answer is simple, really: big government.
The California state legislature is dead-set on expanding their size, scope, and jurisdiction. As the Daily Signal reports, they've consistently raised taxes, increased regulation, and driven up energy costs.
Making things worse for the homeless and those struggling just to stay afloat, far-left policies are also driving up the cost of housing, food, and gasoline. Californians pay an average of 55.8% more for their residential electricity than other Americans, thanks to a politically mandated shift to higher priced, less reliable forms of energy.
Not only have ratepayers had to endure artificially high electricity bills, but while sheltering in place amid triple-digit temperatures, they’ve also had to endure a recent plague of blackouts. Destabilizing the state’s electrical grid system is not only irresponsible folly, it’s dangerous.
If all of this wasn’t enough, California has some of the highest tax rates in the nation and ranks 48th in regulatory freedom because of restrictive regulations and rampant cronyism, according to the Cato Institute.
Here's the most concerning thing: many of these policies are being echoed by big-government socialist politicians in our nation's capital.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, for example, would do all of these things. It would raise taxes for all Americans, impose a host of restrictive regulations, and increase energy costs for families and individuals.
If that happens, where will Americans go? Californians can easily move out of the state, and many of them have chosen to do so. But if the entire country becomes California, there is nowhere left to turn.
As Ronald Reagan famously said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
Let's take a stand. Article V of the Constitution allows the people and the states to call a convention for proposing constitutional amendments. At this Convention of States, state delegations can propose amendments that forever limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can limit taxation and restrict the types of things on which the federal government can spend money.
Without the ability to raise taxes or spend money on "clean energy" or social welfare initiatives, big-government socialists will have their hands tied. They won't be able to impose their communist "utopia" on hard-working Americans, and their ideas will be relegated to the trash heap of history.
Join the movement! Sign the Convention of States petition below to tell your state legislator that you support the grassroots-led Article V initiative.
