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Cali to Business: Get Out! (Firms flee CA's senseless regulations, confiscatory taxes)
City Journal ^ | 11/17/2011 | Steven Malanga

Posted on 11/17/2011 6:45:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Last year, a medical-technology firm called Numira Biosciences, founded in 2005 in Irvine, California, packed its bags and moved to Salt Lake City.

Now, THAT'S good business sense. When the environment turns hostile, get outta there.

21 posted on 11/17/2011 11:36:28 AM PST by ScottinVA (I miss America.)
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To: ScottinVA

Its gone culturally too. One of the reasons I call it Kalipornia


22 posted on 11/17/2011 11:44:11 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: winner3000
A certain radio personality repeatedly describes liberalism as a mental disorder. I always thought that was a nice red meat insult and never took it seriously.

With satire, the closer it is to truth, the hotter it stings.

23 posted on 11/17/2011 12:25:33 PM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: winner3000
How else do you reconcile a whole state repeatedly shooting itself in the foot...on purpose!

The answer is in the article:

“The state’s environmentalists think capitalism is harmful to the environment,” says Assemblyman Dan Logue, chair of a GOP task force on jobs and the economy. “They think jobs and people leaving the state are good.”

Leftist bureaucrats are the ultimate NIMBYs. They want California's population drastically reduced so they can have the state's natural beauty and environment all to themselves. The more businesses and middle class residents that move out, the better, in their eyes.

24 posted on 11/17/2011 12:41:36 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: only1percent
Antonio Villaraigosa.....say's Sí, se puede.

But it's not what you think.........

25 posted on 11/17/2011 12:52:24 PM PST by Osage Orange (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: LouAvul
I've a feeling T-Town was infested with Socialist Marxist Liberals.....way before CA went into the crapper.

Don't know why that is....but might just be the influence of the Tulsa Squirrel. There's some real loons writing for that paper.

26 posted on 11/17/2011 1:15:09 PM PST by Osage Orange (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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27 posted on 11/17/2011 1:38:36 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: SeekAndFind
“The state’s environmentalists think capitalism is harmful to the environment,” says Assemblyman Dan Logue, chair of a GOP task force on jobs and the economy. “They think jobs and people leaving the state are good.”

The money quote. No mystery here.

28 posted on 11/17/2011 4:46:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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What I’m amazed, is that even after everything that has happened, California is still as strong as it is.

I’ve been doing some studies, and even with the gap lowering, the South still hasn’t caught up with the north in lots of economic metrics.

Maybe some of the Californians can explain it to me. Was the collective advantage of over 150 years of build up that strong?


29 posted on 11/17/2011 8:16:55 PM PST by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Well, with Obama in the WH, they figure they can get bailed out by taxpayers in the other “57 states”. And they’re right there. We’ll be paying for their stupidity for the rest of our lives, and probably already are.


30 posted on 11/17/2011 11:07:54 PM PST by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

..we are leaving just as soon as possible—thinking of Davy Crockett’s famous quote...


31 posted on 11/18/2011 5:16:22 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: WalterSkinner

RE: thinking of Davy Crockett’s famous quote...

Educate me please... what did he say?


32 posted on 11/18/2011 6:48:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

..to paraphrase, he suggested that his political foes could go to the infernal regions, and that he was headed to Texas...


33 posted on 11/18/2011 7:02:47 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: BenKenobi
Maybe some of the Californians can explain it to me.

The Asian connection has a lot to do with that. Many Asian immigrants don't feel comfortable moving away from their large communities in the L.A. and San Francisco areas to other parts of the country, so they stay and make money in spite of the adverse conditions - which don't seem bad to them compared to the limited opportunity for success they would have in their own countries. If they were as willing as whites to move to Texas or Arizona, California would already be sunk.

Also, tech companies employ a lot of bright young people from other parts of the country who don't have anything to lose yet and still love the ideal of California. So the state's relative success is largely based on trickery - fool the Asians and the smart kids into thinking that the rest of the country is full of racists and anti-intellectual rednecks and you can scare them into staying and paying higher taxes than people in other parts of the country are willing to. California can probably keep this scam going for quite a while, as the Leftists in the legislature successfully pretend to be advocates of libertarian ideals in opposition the utter cronyist fools who run the California GOP and are especially adept at living down to the Left's stereotypes. But small and medium-sized business owners know the truth, so the Great Hollowing Out will continue.

34 posted on 11/18/2011 7:21:46 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Mr. Jeeves; calcowgirl
Good analysis.

Very good article; I seldom see one so well documented.

35 posted on 11/18/2011 10:57:34 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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