“They want to be happy.” | Beaufort County Now | When you get right down to it, two years of COVID-19 and the government intrusion that has gone along with it, has led to what CNBC dubs a “winter of discontent.”

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    When you get right down to it, two years of COVID-19 and the government intrusion that has gone along with it, has led to what CNBC dubs a "winter of discontent."

    They're right. Yet, Arthur Brooks, former president of AEI, sees a hopeful sign in migration data. He notes that people are moving away from big-government, higher-tax states, looking for life that is more normal.

    My take: Sometimes, what's happening isn't as complicated as we make it out to be. Right now, normal life sounds pretty darn good.

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"One of the really interesting aspects of the Great Resignation is the Great Migration," says @arthurbrooks. "People are moving from big lumbering bureaucratic high-tax states to the places that seem to have a little bit more normality in life, normality in the schools." pic.twitter.com/C0ivKI8fdw

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) January 5, 2022