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Hitchhiker Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 8:24 PM

I guess the news about Phil Mickelson occurred after you wrote this column. Another one driven out of California you can add to the list. Tiger said it was the exact same reason he turned pro out of Orlando FL after growing up his entire life in CA. That was back in 1996 I believe.

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c136 Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 7:26 PM

The sad part was when he felt he had to apologize. Apologize? They're taking 62% from him! Can you blame the guy? And then I keep hearing all these snarky comments from liberals like "Poor Phil, he has to make do on only 3 million". It's his god damn money! Argghhhh that pisses me off.

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Shopping Around for a Better Life

Thanks, California! Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can."

Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans. Its population grew at almost triple the national average -- until 1990. Then big government, in the form of endless regulation and taxes, killed much of the dream. In the last decade, 2 million people left California.

Many of them moved to Alaska, Florida,...

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