Posted on 07/11/2009 12:05:51 AM PDT by Steelfish
JULY 10, 2009
Why We'll Leave L.A.
The business climate is worse than the air quality.
RICK NEWCOMBE Los Angeles
If New Yorkers fantasize that doing business here in Los Angeles would be less of a headache, forget about it. This city is fast becoming a job-killing machine. It's no accident the unemployment rate is a frightening 11.4% and climbing.
I never could have imagined that, after living here for more than three decades, I would be filing a lawsuit against my beloved Los Angeles and making plans for my company, Creators Syndicate, to move elsewhere.
But we have no choice. The city's bureaucrats rival Stalin's apparatchiks in issuing decrees, rescinding them, and then punishing citizens for having followed them in the first place.
I founded Creators Syndicate in 1987, and we have represented hundreds of important writers, syndicating their columns to newspapers and Web sites around the world.
The most famous include Hillary Clinton, who, like Eleanor Roosevelt, wrote a syndicated column when she was first lady. Another star was the advice columnist Ann Landers, once described by "The World Almanac" as "the most influential woman in America."
Other Creators columnists include Bill O'Reilly, Susan Estrich, Thomas Sowell, Roland Martin and Michelle Malkin -- plus Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonists and your favorite comic strips.
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Wonder which part of Dallas/Fort Worth he’s moving to?
Lol, no kidding.
Hey, I know he’s arguing about the city reversing it’s own ruling on the tax classification that it gave him originally. However, I must ask: Why on Earth would anyone pay Muncipal Income Tax? This idea is completely foreign here on the Prairie in flyover country. Mere mention of such a foolish notion would make people’s heads explode. Granted, our city finds other ways to get our money but mostly through fees and traffic tickets.
What are big cities good for, anymore?
That's a good question. The county can handle police, fire, roadways, and the courts. Utility companies are private in most cities. So what do city governments really do except tax and build boondoggles like monorails and low income housing projects?
Hmmm...
Could it be because newspaper businesses are dying?
Last place I want to get my information is from a wad of day old paper throw on my driveway.
Those days are quickly coming to an end...
If I were this guy, I'd get into another line of business.
Probably the part where people still get their information and reading material off their driveways.
That would be great! Come to Los Colinas!
“What are big cities good for, anymore?”
They are good for controlling people and teaching dependence on the government.
Oh and they are good for moving people out of the areas soon to be banned for humans to enter.
World wide. His clients are not limited to the names in the article or the U.S.A. Nor are they limited to newspapers.
yitbos
Providing large pools of voters for liberals.
Lib says Dallas; Conservative says Fort Worth.
I can say that because I was born and raised in Fort Worth. LOL
Oh, well. All I would gain from more commercialization would be possibly lower property taxation, or maybe not. More entities to pay tax, but also larger local government costs.
But, if things continue as they have been, I could be the only remaining person in the county to pay property tax. I would really hate to see that mill levy calculation.
2008 county levy: 1,136,992. If I am the only one living in the county next year, my housing costs are going to tough to fund. The rate the local population is declining, that could happen. How long can I be too lazy to move.
Actually the air quality isn’t that bad in LA, since they’ve taken out nearly all of their heavy manufacturing. The place is a lot poorer...but with cleaner air.
bookmark
Until the taco truck roll out.
BTTT
Good points.
IMHO, big cities are an outmoded technology — something like newspapers, and big TV networks — rendered obsolete by the Internet, and the “death of distance”. I’m only surprised that it took this long for the exodus to begin.
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