Posted on 04/08/2011 5:33:01 AM PDT by freedombiz
A group of California politicians and business representatives are going to Texas April 14 and 15 to talk with some business owners who have moved their companies from California to Texas. ...a cement company, Texas Industries, applied for operating permits in both Texas and California at the same time. Texas approved the permit in 18 months and California took seven years... to open a Carls Jr. restaurant in California takes an average two years and in Texas it’s 45 days.
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We keep electing these guys. The problem is us.
Nope. The system is Rigged. Just look at any Blue vs. Red Electoral Map and you will see it is Rigged for the Cities.
The Libs and the Lamestream Press knows this and Targets the Cities with Liberalism. But folks are fleeing the Cities as this RECESSION goes DOUBLE DIP.
Housing Prices are still plummeting and the State Budgets are Busting. Cuomo in New York and the State of Washington have had to make Painful cuts. Their Liberal constituents will have NONE OF THAT becuase of the ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY fostered into them.
A generation of city dwellers are being educated. 'A Conservative is a Liberal (Progressive) that has been MUGGED BY REALITY'.
Why are those brilliant, intellectual, really really smart California Progressives going to Texas to talk to business men?
They know all the answers already and are such superior geniuses that any input from a businessman would be what they already know. How can gods learn more? It’s impossible, they know everything already.
/sarcasm/
(Progressives are nothing but a revolutionary army dressed in the clothing of the enemy.)
IMHO
“We keep electing these guys...”
And the percentage of those of us who elect them is going to increase. If you think you’ve had a bellyfull of these arrogant punks, wait until 2012.
IMHO
Being a Texan, this does NOT fill me with pride.
Takes freaking 18 months to approve a Cement plant? Why?
I fully support a zoning process. I also fully support an enviromental impact statement for the proposed plant.
Having said that, both those processes should NOT take 18 months.
There has to be speed built in with efficiency.
If the proposed plant will be a polluter, then deny the permit quickly and propose remedies. If the plant then agrees to the remedies, then accept it quickly. No need to dangle this process for 18 months
Getting to a YES/NO quickly is the name of the game in Business.
I fully appreciate environmental concerns of neighbors whenever a polluting entity is getting set up. The fair thing for both parties is to either QUICKLY deny the application or quickly accept or quickly propose remedies that both parties can live with.
No one has 18 months to waste just to find out whether a plant is going to be accepted or not. I would rather take a quick NO and try somewhere else.
Takes freaking 18 months to approve a Cement plant? Why?
Don’t forget about the FEDERAL approval requirements that are required. Multi-jurisdictional governmental bureaucracies (city, county, state, etc.) not only extend the time and complexity of any project, but its costs.
Hey, none of them are above stealing elections. We saw that in 2010 when a bunch of conservatives did not get elected and a bunch of RINOS did.
Who wants to bet the Cali politicians will try to find a way to tax businesses that left. Something like a ‘lost revenue’ tax.
Well said!
This just shows even more how screwed up we are that the Feds get involved in a freaking Cement plant.
Can you imagine??? Now a nuclear plant I get. It has technology/radiation implications that are national (if not international)
But a cement plant?? Gosh. If a state can’t regulate its own Cement plants then why do we have States to begin with
Also, your point about multi jurisdiction (city, county, state) approvals is correct. Again, fault of the state. They should have a “Common Window System” which allows the plants to propose to a single commission made up of all jurisdictional entities
Again, I fully support the right of the state to say NO. But if you are going to say NO, say it QUICKLY and tell me WHY, so that if it is fixable, I can fix it
Don’t make me wait 18 months to find out whether I can create 1000 jobs for your state.
“Who wants to bet the Cali politicians will try to find a way to tax businesses that left. Something like a ‘lost revenue’ tax.”
Corzine tried to pull that on me when I moved from Jersey to Texas. My attorney told the administration to piss off. The case was dropped.
Out here in good ole California in a small community in the Northern sector of Liberal Land, for a business to build a new building in a new location requires a traffic density study, cost ? $ 250,000. Population here ? 9000. To build a new home, fees and permit plus new building codes, just since January 1, approximately $ 35,000 more than Dec 31, 2010. We don’t build new homes or new business anymore. All business in downtown now have to have special permit to have an exterior sign for encroachment. Fee’s range from $ 25.00 and up, plus extra insurance costs. And the state wonders ? why business and people are moving out of state ?
And the California pols keep asking themselves 'why are businesses leaving the state? Ha!
Was/is California one of the states that levy income tax on you even if you retire to another state on the premise that you earned the money there, therefore your retirement is coming from there? Or maybe it’s all states by now.
Politicians in california have learned one thing,he with the highest kickback wins,it’s an old congress game.
What a bunch of stupid bastards. The politicians, not those who moved. ;-)
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