So according to this liberal think tank, it has nothing to do with the real estate melt down and resulting financial crisis.
Thank you. That was all just a blip on the map.
Or the highest corporate tax-rate in the industrialized world, or the massive flood of illegal immigrants depressing wages and sucking the public coffers dry, or the ever-increasing, crushing environmental and occupational regulations that businesses have to contend with.
It's all about healthcare, and conveniently, there is a socialist "solution" to that problem, unlike any of the others listed.