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Readers of this column know all about the flight of people from expensive, dysfunctional states governed by leftists to well-run jurisdictions that are more friendly to workers and savers. But it’s not just a movement of people and their money. Now it seems that just about anything useful can be relocated if the regulatory environment gets bad enough. One might be tempted to say that anything not nailed down can be moved to a more productive situation, except that even heavy stuff that’s been bolted into place is now ripe for relocation. The scale of the climate policy disaster authored by Gov. JB Pritzker (D., Ill.) is perhaps best measured by the effort and expense
companies are willing to bear to liberate useful assets from the Land of Lincoln. The Chicago Tribune has published an editorial tour de force describing the results: The owner of two-thirds of a massive natural-gas-fired power plant in Will County is moving their part of the facility to Texas. Literally. As in, putting huge turbines on flatbed trucks and driving them south to friendlier climes.
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