Commerce and compassion

When I see a state like Illinois or California driving out commerce because of their inadequate or false understanding of profit and commerce, I feel horrible. I feel deep compassion for the people of those states, people whose lives are disrupted and sometimes mutilated.

To someone else the fact that large corporations will be leaving Chicago and Los Angeles and moving to areas that are more friendly to business does not seem to matter.  Democratic politicians cannot even conceive consequences of their political actions.

To me that means individual children will have to move to new schools, give up their old friends, learn to adjust to new ways to dress and different ways of talking. Their friendship networks are disrupted, their relatives have to make major adjustments in their lives, in travel, to be able to keep families intact and functional.

Mothers and fathers will be forced to find new jobs, make new friends, adjust to new neighborhoods, trying to understand the complexities of new healthcare systems and new schools. To me, these are horrible involuntary disruptions, often resulting in divorce, family pain, family suffering.

Do you have compassion for the horror, misery and potential for moral breakdown that bad politics and even worse tax policy creates in the lives of these hard-working sincere Americans?