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The California Model

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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California Is a Third World Black Market Economy

In california, it's not free, because you have no disposable income. And when you have a restrictive economy like that, people make the necessary adjustments. We have a huge black market on taxed economy, and it's illegal. I'm looking out the window right now, and i see a ghost of my great, my grandfather here, and his stories about his grandmother there and my mother there, and this farm. It's got to get worse. But it's not unlivable. The middle class gets nothing in return for the huge amount of money it pays for its utilities, its fuels, its food, its shelter and e its taxes.

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