Over taxed and over regulated....what states aren't? The regulation comes MOSTLY from the Feds. The taxes are to make roads...:o)MOST of our taxes seem to go to highways.
Crooked politicians? Check out the REST OF THE PLANET and you will find that crooked politicians are everywhere. If you don't have them in Puckerbrush, USA, where you must live, then it's because no one cares there. What a dumb thing for you to say and you know it.
Unions and special interests and assorted marxists?
Unions aren't OUR problem; they are yours. Unions make up only 18% of the US workforce. The other 82% of the workforce use the free market system. Nothing wrong with that.
Special interests--another dumb statement. Show me a state that doesn't have "special interest" groups. Congress is always complaining about its members and their "pork barrel" special interests. Wake up and smell the coffee, paul51.
Assorted marxiists -- They exist around MOST large universities because college profs so often are ASSorted marxists. If you haven't any ASSorted marxists then you haven't any large universities. Big states create big universities. Big states have big money and can afford big salaries to attract the best.
The University of California had Dr. Wernher von Braun in its Physics Department. There weren't any better profs of physics at the time.
Yeah, he was German-born American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that. He died in 1977. He did spend the last 30+ years of his life in America.