[mylife]

Welcome to Texas, leave your liberal ideas at the border.

[cpa4you]

When the business community begins to clue into the value of tort reform, affordable housing, no personal income tax, corrupt political environment in California and decent public schools more and more business will have to give serious consideration to “relocating!”

[Presbyterian Reporter]

One more wise business owner who sees that the California leftists will vote to bankrupt the State.

The saying formerly was: “Go West Young Man Go West”. The newly revised saying is: “Get out while you can.”

[ken5050]

I’d love to know how long it will take the advantages of being in Texas for the company to recover the $ 15 mill in relocation costs..

[stockpirate]

I love a story wth a good ending.....

[davetex]

Where’s dragnut?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Is Californicate still considering the “exit” tax? Better move while the moving is good. I can see Moonbeam proposing the “exit” tax to ensure everyone pays their fair share ... especially before they leave the state.

[Randy Larsen]

The posts at the end of this article are truly dumbfounding!

We conservatives in Kalifornia really do have our work cut out for us!

[6SJ7]

California is proof that given enough bad government, one can turn gold into lead.

[cicero2k]

I lived in Sacramento for 21 years. The entire time the call was for companies to locate their headquarters there as the only economic force was artificial: state government.

Finally, the the “most valuable” private company has 100 employees! Laughable for a region of nearly two million.

I should have left in 1989 when the voters voted to close a productive nuclear power plant. The mindset is clear. There’s no business like no business in central California.

[Lancey Howard]

Congratulations to Ron Mittelstaedt. A little slow on the uptake maybe, but better late than never.
No point throwing good money down the California toilet after bad.

[truth_seeker]

Fluor Corporation (to Irving TX), Fidelity National Title (to Jacksonville FL), and Northrup Grumann (to DC suburbs) were some of the big companies which moved corporate Hq. out of California.

Others will surely continue leaving, for the same reasons.

They go to a lot of places, not just Texas. A 2010 article shows some detinations for Orange County firms that left.

http://jan.ocregister.com/2010/07/16/84-companies-added-to-leaving-california-list/41399/

[truth_seeker]

Fluor Corporation (to Irving TX), Fidelity National Title (to Jacksonville FL), and Northrup Grumann (to DC suburbs) were some of the big companies which moved corporate Hq. out of California.

Others will surely continue leaving, for the same reasons.

They go to a lot of places, not just Texas. A 2010 article shows some detinations for Orange County firms that left.

http://jan.ocregister.com/2010/07/16/84-companies-added-to-leaving-california-list/41399/

[denydenydeny]

The comments are fascinating, with basically just one person defending California's taxes and regulations. She insists that she is a "businesswoman" but refuses to say what she does even as others bait her by insisting she must be a state employee. And she can't understand why anyone would want to flee paradise, it must be a mental disorder:

Hard to respect this particular move of Mr. Mittelstaedt.... did his parents raise him as an "only child" (I mean emotionally, there are plenty of civilized only children) who was supposed to think only of his own needs, not sharing with siblings?

With that kind of income he could stay in the Sacramento area and make significant donations.... like to the homeless program in Sacramento County. Then he could take a nice little write off and actually feel GOOD about himself!

Because the purpose of life is to feel "GOOD" about yourself, a.k.a. feel morally superior to your neighbors.

[the invisib1e hand]

you know things are tough when your most valuable company is called “waste connections” and employs 100 people.

[Fledermaus]

And yet another Atlas shrugs.

Who is John Galt?