Comments on: Iowa might not be so attractive for CA businesses

By: DavidfromLosGatos

DavidfromLosGatos — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:41:15 +0000

Pass on Iowa. Too flat and boring and high tax. What’s the point of the pain of moving to an almost as high as tax rate as CA?

IMO, best of the Midwest is South Dakota. No income tax, and relatively low everything else. Western part of South Dakota has beautiful scenery, large parks, mountains, rivers, etc., and is allegedly (but not really) a “banana belt” compared to the eastern half of the state. OK, winters are not so great – but no worse than Iowa.

Colorado has better weather, scenery and taxes than Iowa. Plus, educated work force willing to work for less than in Silicon Valley, because the cost of living is lower. A flat 4.6% income tax is not nearly as greedy as California. Denver has all major sports, and is very walkable downtown.

Texas is OK, but nothing special to look at, and too dang hot in the summer.

By: Rightwinger

Rightwinger — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:30:57 +0000

Iowa does have one of the best school systems in the USA and great public Colleges…. that is because the property taxes they collect actually go to the schools… from building them to rehabing the ones that went up during the WPA era…. that DOES equal a workforce that can read and write… they lost allot of manufacturing business in the 70s due to the union plants closing and moving to non-union states… they still did not get it though cause when the car companies came a calling in the 80’s they lost out there too cause Iowa workers wanted union shops…even though they had HUGE manufacturing space sitting empty… they went south to the Carolina’ etc they would have probably have done better if they did not try and go the union route

By: us citizen

us citizen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:29:08 +0000

Ill trade a Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and Brown for one Perry in Texas.

By: Naresh Krishnamoorti

Naresh Krishnamoorti — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:48:53 +0000

What does Cal Watchdog have against Gov. Perry? This is the second article I’ve read that uses a pejorative word (“poaching”) to describe his activities.

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:38:24 +0000

All true, John.

Though Iowa does offer one important advantage: A workforce that can read and write.

“Iowa had the nation’s highest graduation rate in 2010-11, according to U.S. Department of Education data released today.”

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/11/26/iowa-ranks-first-in-high-school-graduation-rate-federal-report-shows/article?nclick_check=1