<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drekk</author><text>California&amp;#x27;s government is center-right. There is no far left party in US politics. That&amp;#x27;s why you don&amp;#x27;t have affordable higher education or healthcare, why your infrastructure is decaying, why you don&amp;#x27;t have nice public transit, etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also why your taxes are so high with nothing to show for them. Turns out austerity is expensive for most people. Canada and Mexico have cheap insulin because their governments are only willing to put up with so much profiteering in medicine. One has to ask why the US government is. Is that because of the far left, too?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gandalfgeek</author><text>I can’t relate at all to that sentiment. California has got to be one of the most bloated and wasteful state governments in the entire US. High taxes and nothing to show for it. The entrenched far left seems bent on destroying the middle class, driving out business, regulating everything to death and displacing merit as a selection factor.&lt;p&gt;Whatever glory Cali has— tech, entertainment, farming, weather, natural beauty— is in spite of govt rather than because of it.</text></item><item><author>enahs-sf</author><text>Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country.&lt;p&gt;Probably wishful thinking but would be great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin</title><url>https://kion546.com/news/2022/07/07/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-california-will-make-its-own-insulin/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taeric</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t claim you are wrong. But I do question when the evidence is so murky.  A lot of what folks think they want in efficient systems are systems that would fail because of how efficient they were run.&lt;p&gt;That is, what evidence do you have that the success is in spite of government?  Is there a comparable government or system that is doing better?  Why?  Or why not?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gandalfgeek</author><text>I can’t relate at all to that sentiment. California has got to be one of the most bloated and wasteful state governments in the entire US. High taxes and nothing to show for it. The entrenched far left seems bent on destroying the middle class, driving out business, regulating everything to death and displacing merit as a selection factor.&lt;p&gt;Whatever glory Cali has— tech, entertainment, farming, weather, natural beauty— is in spite of govt rather than because of it.</text></item><item><author>enahs-sf</author><text>Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country.&lt;p&gt;Probably wishful thinking but would be great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin</title><url>https://kion546.com/news/2022/07/07/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-california-will-make-its-own-insulin/</url></story>