>> California has it's problems as every state does to one degree or
>> another but it is also highly successful.

Some businesses are leaving California for tax and regulation reasons.

I'm not sure I'd call that a model of success. We've seen what a loss of regulations did in Texas.

> What do you mean by successful? The media has been reporting a lot of
> businesses leaving California.

California was at one time the fifth largest economy in the world, heading for fourth although that is old, I dunno if that is true today but I would call California a success with all that comes with it.

> But of course that might be just a bunch of lies, and maybe businesses are
> not leaving California. It's hard to know for sure what's happening in a
> state without living in it, very, very hard to know.

That is not a lie but it does not tell the whole story.

> But not everyone has the same definition of every word. Would "successful"
> describe a state losing it's businesses to other states? Someone wishing for
> socialism or for the bringing down of a country might call that "success."

I understand that "Socialist" is Donald Trumps favorite word but California is not a socialist state and nor has California done anything like "bringing down a country".

I can think of others when you say bring down a country, but it is not California.

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