[Joan Kerrey]

there are just no prospective new businesses to lend to.

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No new businesses and many existing now aren’t too keen on growing until all this uncertainty passes. My brother has a company that he moved to Taiwan 4 years ago, but keeping some operations in Nevada. He’s increased the Taiwan operations and keeps a few management types in Nevada.
His entire operation was at one time in California. No longer and never again, he says. The way he figures it, he no longer has a problem, Government does.

[haroldeveryman]

“The way he figures it, he no longer has a problem, Government does.”

Well said. I wish the rest of us could say that. Somebody once said that “when the government fears the people you have democracy, but when the people fear the government, you have dictatorship.

The “uncertainty” that people like your brother seek to escape is the constant threat of capricious action by the crooks and political radicals that now control our federal government. Your brother wants to be free to use his talents to benefit himself by creating goods that other people would find beneficial to themselves. What the feds want to do is cut themselves in, and the more they get the more they’ll want.

We’ll all be free to vote with our feet only after our states reassert the rights reserved for them by the Constitution.