“California continues to uphold regulations that define the smell of baking bread as a pollutant. And a bakery was actually fined millions of dollars in the last few months in Lodi, California for not having proper cleansers on it’s emission of the smell of baking bread.”
In 2012, California’s economy was equal in size to that of Russia. The state is a leader in agriculture, energy and entertainment. But as a result of a series of issues that have metastasized over the past four decades, the state finds itself facing an economic abyss.
Blaze Books sat down for an in-depth interview in TheBlaze’s New York newsroom this past Tuesday with former Reagan appointee and California-based lawyer and political communications company executive Jim Lacy, author of “Taxifornia,” to discuss the major challenges facing California that threaten to turn the state into one big version of Detroit. Below are six reasons that California is on the verge of collapse, as gleaned from our interview with Mr. Lacy. All links are ours.
1. Union dominance and “doing it for the kids”
California Teachers Assn. members join others at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles to protest budget cuts to statewide education. The union holds sway over Democrats — labor’s traditionally ally –and Republicans alike.
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