Long after the COVID pandemic is over, Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott will be remembered as the two who sabotaged the economic development of their respective states. How So?
At the start of the pandemic both low tax and business friendly Florida and Texas were riding high with businesses and individuals rushing into their respective states with the movement towards working from home putting it into overdrive. However, their anti-public health responses to COVID and its Delta variant with respect mandated mask requirements and their failure to be all-in in encouraging vaccines will soon frighten away businesses as they see hospitalizations and deaths soar.
Simply put no one wants to get sick or die as a result of a self-inflected wound coming from fatal governmental policies. By playing to the worst instincts of their constituents, DeSantis and Abbott will soon find their states at the short end of the stick when it comes to attracting economic activity.
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