Posted on 11/25/2010 1:26:21 AM PST by South40
Irvine consultant Joe Vranich, who has been compiling a list of companies leaving California because of the state’s anti-business environment, is now up to 144 companies that have departed in 2010, including 34 in Orange County.
In addition, he lists 51 companies (8 from Orange County) that left in 2009. That three-fold increase, Vranich says, is the tip of the iceberg that is California’s financial woes.
“Quite clearly, the exodus of businesses out of California continues. It makes sense for companies to reduce their California footprint considering the ample supply of attractive, lower-cost alternative locations. Unless California reduces its hostility toward business, we will see more commercial enterprises seeking friendlier locations in which to relocate entirely or at least place facilities there that used to be located here.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jan.ocregister.com ...
Makes me wonder how many have bugged outta NYS....
My sense is we are heading for an economic sesession shortly. Those states who have been realistic and have kept taxes and regs in tow are NOT going to want to underwrite the fiscally and regulatary out of control states like California and New York and a few others.
My Company being one of them, hello Mexico, hello Kentucky. My last day was yesterday.
What Upstate needs is its own state.
BTW, if the red bits of PA wanna come with us, works fer me, too :)
Only business predicted to thrive in CA: U Haul.
Amen to that. If they’re moving because of taxes and regulation but bringing their social liberalism which is the cause of those things, I wish they’d just stay put. Liberalism is like a parasite, it kills its host and moves to the next. People who call themselves “fiscal conservatives” while being socially liberal are fooling themselves.
U-Haul and Penske are also doing well in the northeast...
You know people are fleeing a state when they lose a Congressman or two...
good post - someone tell HP that the 200,000,000 they pay in CAlif. state taxes would be cut in half if they move into the properties that they own in Texas.
BTW, leave any egg stealing, dumb-a**, liberal/”Progressive” employees/partners in California. They and their ilk are the ones who drove you out.
Let La Raza have it. But with the stipulation that all registered Democrats must stay.
Bless you for your selfless efforts.
I heard a Californian say “we’ve got the weather” as if that was enough.
Was it a Californian who coined the phrase “the weather is beautiful wish you were here” ?
Ironically, there is a town named "Galt" in California.
This list includes entire companies, but there are divisions of companies even larger that have left. I know a division of 800 people that are now in three other states.
Got a company that needs about an acre or so under roof?
A truss company opened in my burg just as everything hit the skids & it is standing vacant. Brand new construction. Employee parking, large lot/area for staging materials prior to manufacturing. Directly adjacent to US Hwy 95-A & about 1/4 mile from U S Hwy 50. About 17 miles from Interstate 80.
I don’t know the name of the company that wanted to start the truss company, but with construction down to ZERO here in N Nevada, nothing is happening there.
If you want to Google Earth the location, it is on the west side of 95-A, about 1/4 mile south of Hwy 50. I don’t have the ability to Google Earth anything, so I cannot give you coordinates. The burg is Silver Springs. There are many empty houses lost in forclosure which could be had for decent prices, if you can get the banks off their asses & deal with the sales.
I suspect any state run by libtards is a gold mine for U Haul since all progressive utopias are losing population.
Nevada has NO state income taxes- for individuals or corporations. Look at your state tax returns—how much are you paying Calif to be there?
Look at the money you are deducting from your employee payroll & see how much they are paying to stay there.
Workmen’s comp is also lower.
I can try to help from this end with more contacts, if anyone is interested.
It’s not just Californians. NAFTA saw thousnds of manufacturing jobs leave the US, and our politicians said it was good for America!
And the politicians in the European capitols said the European Union would be good for them.
Even the Swiss politicos and business leaders were pushing the country to join the EU for fear of being isolated from their biggest trading partners, but the people voted it down in a national referendum. I suspect the Swiss feel they made the right decision.
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