Comments on: CEOs Rank CA Worst State for Business

By: 11% unemployment? So what? In California, it’s anti-business as usual

11% unemployment? So what? In California, it’s anti-business as usual — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:48:49 +0000

[…] get an advantage.” But that doesn’t explain why in national surveys of CEOs, California always ranks last in business-friendliness. The idea that California is deeply hostile to the private sector isn’t just something that’s […]

By: Mike N

Mike N — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:38:28 +0000

The Democrats depend on public employee unions for campaign financing and on tax recipients for votes. Private sector jobs provide neither. In fact, private sector workers are likely to vote Republican. So don’t expect much to change. The Democrats have it just the way they like it.

By: Tim. Kley

Tim. Kley — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:06:45 +0000

That is why I am sending apps all over the world

By: Tylerle13

Tylerle13 — Sun, 08 May 2011 07:27:19 +0000

Dave, where do you think that “Personal Income” comes from?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:42:24 +0000

Corporate tax only makes up 11% of the state tax revenue, with 51% coming from personal income tax. In addition, corporate welfare is pretty high in this state, so, really, if businesses get welfare and lower taxes that translates to personal income going to support business.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:26:05 +0000

The answer is to copy the New Hampshire lower house.

They have a part-time legislature where members are paid $100 a year. Also they have 400 members with small districts making it responsible to the people rather than billionaire cartels of unions and corporations looking to rape the state treasury for their own ends.

Make the legislators meet for 60 days and then go home and work for a living like the rest of us.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:06:09 +0000

California plans to stay on the bottom of the Chief Executives list of worst states to do business in. Sentor (state) Steinberg along with Desaulnier, Hancock, Hernadez, Kehoe, Liu, and Wolk voted on 4May 2011 to re refer SB 653 to the Committee on Appropriations. SB 653 is the sales and use tax law that will authorize local governments to impose taxes on everything. The state DMV, FTB, and SBE will be required to collect any taxes imposed by local governments.

By: Tylerle13

Tylerle13 — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:13:39 +0000

One of the biggest factors at play in this situation is that the people who have been steering the state into the ground are such pretentious A-holes that they will never admit that they were wrong about anything, they will just push more regulations to cover up the damage their actions have caused. They believe that they are always the smartest in the room, therefore they should be the ones who make all of the decisions. Even in situations where people have tried their idea & failed (Spains failed “Green” utopia), they believe that there is no way that would happen here because we are soooo much smarter than them.

California will continue to underperform until these people are either stripped of power or someone comes up with an efficient (& “Green”, of course) method of removing a persons head from their own “Greenhouse Gas Emission Cavity”.

By: larry 62

larry 62 — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:11:47 +0000

It’s beginning to sound like a broken record, hearing the same thing year after year and nothing changes for the better down at the state house.