By Susan Shelley in California Political Review

January 6, 2016

When George Washington was on his deathbed, his doctors tried to save his life by bleeding him, which was considered good medicine at the time.

California businesses must feel like the father of our country did when he tried to stop the bleeding but the well-intentioned practitioners wouldn’t be stopped.

With California’s income taxes, sales taxes, energy prices and other costs at or near the highest in the nation, plus a regulatory and legal climate that escalates costs and creates high-risk uncertainties, many businesses have left the state, reduced hiring or cut hours and wages.

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