I know everybody likes to poke fun at California, but despite all of its problems, California remains one of the best places in the world to build a successful small business. All you have to do is start with a successful large business.

Laugh if you will, but when these policies finish wrecking California, there are still 49 other states we can move to—and I have a strange sense of déjà-vu every day on the House floor as I watch the same folly and blunders that wrecked California now being passed with reckless abandon in this Congress.

• We passed a “Cash-for-Clunkers” bill. California did that years ago.
• Doubling the entire debt every five years? Been there.
• Increasing spending at unsustainable rates? Done that.
• Save-the-planet-carbon-dioxide restrictions? I have the t-shirt.

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