A quick look at related articles shows that California is losing businesses not only to low tax states like Texas, Nevada, and South Dakota, but to other liberal, but possibly more sensible, environs like Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Liberals boast that California will continue to generate growth through cutting edge technology. However, these start up companies are increasingly migrating to other states and foreign countries as soon as they need to expand.
California is becoming Detroit writ large, albeit with beautiful scenery and a great climate.
Liberals boast that California will continue to generate growth through cutting edge technology.
- You CAn't do any kind of R&D efficiently without a development infrastructure of suppliers and tool shops that gets their daily bread from manufacturing.
- You CAn't do any kind of R&D efficiently without PEOPLE to help build prototype equipment, people who usually develop their skills in a manufacturing and tooling environment.
- You CAn't do any kind of R&D efficiently without a place to scale up.
- You CAn't even understand what the next development SHOULD be without an understanding of what is manufacturable.
They'll lose it all, including the university technical schools, because they too rely upon contracts from manufacturers just as their laboratories have the same infrastructure requirements as the manufacturers, not to mention PARENTS with technical backgrounds raising future professors.