Is California really freer than Florida and other red states?

Victor Davis Hanson points out California's

soaring gas prices, terrible schools and infrastructure, and spiking crime. But he did virtue signal about giving illegal aliens millions of state dollars in COVID relief.

So it is Orwellian for Newsom to brag about a "free" California that supposedly will entice Floridians or Texans. In truth, over the last decades hundreds of thousands of Californians and billions of dollars of wealth fled the now inert California for a far freer Florida and Texas, among other states.

Read more here: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/14/gavin_newsoms_weird_idea_of_freedom_147886.html