Posted on 05/09/2011 9:36:41 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the Lone Star State's recruiter-in-chief, is aiming to take advantage of a political fight over the future of the tiny industrial city of Vernon.
Perry has sent dozens of emails to some of Vernon's approximately 1,800 employers, telling them that a bill backed by California Assembly Speaker John Perez could eliminate many of the tax and operating-cost advantages they enjoy in the manufacturing enclave southeast of Los Angeles.
"As the state of California continues to support legislation that causes undue burden and taxation on companies doing business in the Los Angeles area, I invite you to consider your future in America's new land of opportunity: the state of Texas," Perry wrote.
"If California doesn't want your business, Texas does."
He noted that Texas "has no personal income tax, and there's no interest in getting one."
Perez's bill would strip Vernon of its city charter because of what he has called an "unprecedented pattern of corruption" in the city of fewer than 100 residents, which has been controlled for the last century by a small group of family members and their allies.
Business executives in Vernon, who have been waging a battle against the powerful Democratic speaker from Los Angeles, say they just might be interested in what Texas has to offer.
"Texas is reaching out to the companies that are here that might be interested in moving," said Jose Gavina, vice president of F. Gavina & Sons Inc., a large family-owned coffee roaster with customers nationwide. "I would love to be able to stay here, but we need to move where it's best for the company."
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Could it be that Atlas is about to “shrug” in CA?
Please, take it all!
UPS has a massive hub there.
Gezzz that place sucks....I'm convinced 95 percent of the businesses there are simply distribution centers for cheap tacky Communist Chinese products..
I hope the entire city of Vernon moves to Texas...
Need to start prying some of these Silicon Valley companies out of CA. I wonder how much it affects their bottom line by being in Mountain View rather than Mountain Home?
I know a bunch of people up in the Silicon Valley area. You'd have better luck investing in public pay phones than trying to convince them to move to Texas.
Good luck with that!
LOL! Yeah, they still think CA has some sort of mystique. Although we can probably work on that.
A buddy of mine visited Orlando from the Valley not long ago. He picked up the lunch tab and remarked, "Wow! The sales tax is only 6% here?" I then said, "Yeah, and there is no income tax."
The look on his face was priceless.
The old saying, ya get what ya pay for remains..If it were all about money to me, I’d go buy some double wide on the wind swept plains of South Dakota or along the Mississippi somewhere. California politics currently sucks, but it will always remain America’s crown jewel, with near perfect year round weather. The weather alone is worth a *fortune* to us.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;-)
Stationed at Monterey for a year plus having to travel to Silicon Valley once a year, I know a bit more than most about the weather but I certainly don't claim to be a resident.
Summer's not too bad but winter and spring can really suck. The winter weather in Monterey is probably similar to Seattle. And spring in the Bay area can go from wonderful to "shoot me now" in seconds. I just can't get used to that fog rolling off the hills in the afternoon freezing my ass off.
My boss tells me "dress in layers". I do. One. :-)
I know, I know, many folks love CA weather. I just happen to not be one of them. Though INLAND is ok. I'd rather take Barstow over San Jose :-)
Read the comments at the end of the article.
Did about fifty of them. Maybe two coherent sentences in two thousand.
Scary.
Monday's show ID'd the reason for California's problems: Proposition 13.
.. and those damn propositions in general. The damn California voters have prevented the government from getting the money it needs.
More.. they boldly stated that let the voters have their way and cut government spending.. that'll show 'em when they lose all the great things government does for them. They'll come crawling back.
Folks, that's 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue talking. Arguably they are now "the Establishment." Certainly in the universities and the MSM they are.
Would it not be more correct to say distributors for the Chicap’s, the business men of China
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