When you think about what a disaster health care was and is than zero comes along and doubles the trouble, makes it twice as bad,if you are trying to logically ask yourself why? There are few answers other than destroying the country in favor of Marxism. It's about all you can come up with other than mass incompetence or whacked out egomaniac.
Nationally, 0zero and the Democrats believe they can do whatever they want to do, and state wise the same attitude is there. Large cities too, if you think about it: NYC, LA, Chicago etc.
It used to be called “white flight” but that no longer applies because anyone with the means will leave high taxing cities and states. In most cases they move to lower taxing suburbs and if they have the money, like Rush, they leave the state all together. More than once Rush has said the outrageous NY and NYC taxes made him move. That’s also why FL gets so many new residents. Personally, even with state taxes I wonder if some of the other coastal states would not be as good. SC, MS, AL and others seem to have lower overall taxation with a lower cost of living.
Another Obama/Axelrod false choice. The two are inexorably linked. Healthcare is 1/7th of the economy. When combined with the uncertainty over taxes, energy and government you have a perfect storm that resulted in the serious post election economic downturn. On the margin this has to be one of the biggest downturns in US economic history.