Comments on: Businesses Flee State In Droves https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:22:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Whitey Ford https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3658 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:22:02 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3658 California is going down the tubes. Demographically and economically. Thank a “progressive” on your way out.

]]> By: Conservative Oregon cities? - Page 11 - City-Data Forum https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3657 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:36:28 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3657 […] city uses taxpayer funds to pay for sex changes for city employees. Businesses FLEE CA in droves! Businesses Flee State In Droves | CalWatchDog We can't get any of the good guns anymore or own 30 round magazines. Pretty sure they are legal in […]

]]> By: Businesses Flee State In Droves | goldcountrypatriots https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3656 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:51:26 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3656 […] Businesses Flee State In Droves Posted on January 30, 2011 by goldcountrypatriots Steven Greenhut: Liberal groups such as the Public Policy Institute of California have, along with the state’s legislative Democrats, made a cottage industry denying reports that businesses are leaving California. Read more… […]

]]> By: Manny Cosme https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3655 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:15:58 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3655 The great state of Texas is doing a great deal of campaigning for California businesses – with success. I don’t recall the count but at a business convention in Dallas in September 2010, the governor boastfully spoke about the business moving to Texas from California. Acknowledging the California business owners attending the event, he went further with his comments and said that California is NOT the place to have a business in because it is not a business friendly state and his state, Texas, is.

I think that with the new governor in Nevada, I will not be surprised to see them campaigning heavily in California too.

]]> By: John Steele https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3654 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:00:30 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3654 I’ve been trying to alert our Reps in the Legislature about this exodis from California, but nobody wants to hear it. Stuff like AB32 is killing the job climate and these guys are so hooked on idealogy that they have refused to listen. I suspect that one day we will be like Michigan, which now has no jobs due to taxes and the climate change stuff. Texas is starting to look pretty good to business.

]]> By: Bruce https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3653 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:51:51 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3653 There’s no doubt California’s tough on businesses. I love the quote from Frama-Tech’s owner. And it’s a public service to highlight companies that are investing or just up and moving out of state.

At the same time, this list is by its nature misleading. A state the size of California will have business churn. They’ll come and go. Who’s keeping the list of start-ups, expansions and in-state investments? (For instance, Southern Aluminum Finishing, based back east in Atlanta, just signed a deal to open a West Coast plant in little old Redding.)

What web company’s taken the world by storm the past few years and is now worth (on paper, anyway) $50 billion? Oh yeah, Facebook. Based in? Palo Alto. What computer company is now bigger than Microsoft? Apple. Based in? Cupertino.

My point’s just that California still has a lot going for it. Doom-and-glooming without recognizing the state’s strengths might be cathartic, but won’t help develop a sound economic strategy.

]]> By: John Seiler https://calwatchdog.com/2011/01/27/business-flee-state-in-droves/#comment-3652 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:46:23 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=13160#comment-3652 Last taxpayer in Taxifornia, don’t forget to turn out the windmill-powered, AB32-compliant lights.

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