Over at sister blog The Locker Room, Mitch Kokai blogs about the latest example of the negative impact of progressive policies on an economy. This time the measurement is housing starts. The City of Houston reportedly had more single-family housing starts in a three-year period than did the entire state of California. Stunning — but not surprising.
Here in North Carolina, reformers in the legislature and governor’s office are moving our state away from California’s dependency model of government and toward Texas’ opportunity model. We owe these committed reformers a debt of gratitude for doing the difficult work of righting the ship of state and for not wilting under the barrage of vitriol and name-calling slung their way by entrenched special interests whose power structures depend upon a constantly growing government and a more and more dependent populace.
We know, through empirical evidence, which state-level policies lead to economic growth — and which do not.
