Pro-capitalism agenda attracting people to Texas

Fox News:
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday said high-tax states are losing residents because they refuse to embrace a pro-capitalism agenda.

He said, “700,000 people fled California. When you consider the beautiful climate out there, it’s something else to imagine 700,000 fleeing there,” Abbott told “Fox & Friends” from Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum.

Abbott explained further, “You have people fleeing Illinois, New Jersey, other states because they’re trying to get away from the things that hamstring capitalism and hamstring their ability to start and grow a business.”

As his impeachment trial was set to begin in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, President Trump took the stage in Davos and touted his administration's policies for helping create a historic unemployment level and taking a new proactive stance toward trade.

He said recent trade agreements will represent a new model for the 21st century that is based on fairness and reciprocity. Trump cheered his landmark United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the China trade deal, highlighting their potential benefits to Americans.

Abbott touted Texas as having the top-ranked gross domestic product and being the fastest growing economy in the United States because the state follows suit with Trump's “embrace of the value of capitalism.”

“We want businesses to come into the state of Texas. We want fewer regulations; lower taxes, we want to make it easy for businesses to be able to succeed because we understand something in Texas that it seems like some other states do not and that it is when your business succeeds in Texas, we as a state succeed.”
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The only thing surprising about this to me is that the states who are losing the population keep on doing the things that caused them to lose it in the first place rather than embrace capitalism and freedom.

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