Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on The Napa Valley Register regarding California

by Kaitlin Hopkins 11/05/2009

"Today’s public benefits fail that test. As urban scholar Joel Kotkin of Chapman University puts it: 'Twenty years ago, you could go to Texas, where they had very low taxes, and you would see the difference between there and California. Today, you go to Texas, the roads are no worse, the public schools are not great but are better than or equal to ours, and their universities are good. The bargain between California’s government and the middle class is constantly being renegotiated to the disadvantage of the middle class.'"

Joel on the Napa Valley Register

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