California Disintegrates

In my journeys on the 'net, I sometimes meet folks (often from Texas) who are pleased to tell me that California is falling in a death spiral. They claim that residents of California are fleeing the state to escape from taxation, businesses are leaving to find more welcoming capitalist subcultures, family values people (the sort who grab women by their private parts) have packed their pickups and are on the road to Idaho.

But we learned yesterday that California recently passed Great Britain and became the world's fifth largest economy. 

Tell me again why we can't afford single payer and free universities like Great Britain.