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1 posted on 12/25/2012 2:02:41 PM PST by Kolath
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Get out before the “exit tax” is voted into law.


2 posted on 12/25/2012 2:10:00 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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Need something like Directive 10-289.


4 posted on 12/25/2012 2:21:23 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Your tattoo looks stupid.)
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Democrats just don’t get it.


8 posted on 12/25/2012 2:27:50 PM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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If California was run by Republicans instead of Democrats, the truth would already be out about it going over the fiscal cliff. Unfortunately, the working class are being raped and robbed by the welfare class. California will probably never be run by the GOP due to the Prison Guard and Teacher’s Unions. They run it through Governor Brown and his illegal third term in office.


9 posted on 12/25/2012 2:28:31 PM PST by Nitehawk0325 (All praise King Obama and bend over backwards for him.)
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The eastern border of California is the new iron curtain.


11 posted on 12/25/2012 2:30:37 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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California killed the goose that was laying the golden eggs.


12 posted on 12/25/2012 2:30:57 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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No kidding A-holes. When your company moves to Texas, leave your leftist California BS there. DOn’t screw up a good place.


13 posted on 12/25/2012 2:32:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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Yeah but California will get all the new wind and solar companies. Maybe even the algae.


14 posted on 12/25/2012 2:32:50 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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If this keeps up, they might just build a wall — not to keep out the illegal homeboys, oh no, not that. The wall will be built to keep anybody that has a pot to whizz in actually in the state long enough to steal their pot.


15 posted on 12/25/2012 2:34:16 PM PST by L,TOWM (No one in the US is free of the spirit of entitlement)
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Chevron is California’s largest corporation, but it seems to be making the move to becoming Texas’ largest corporation instead.

Um, the largest Texas-based corporation is ExxonMobil which is headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is bigger than Chevron.

18 posted on 12/25/2012 2:39:07 PM PST by rustbucket
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The Starship California continued its death dive into the black hole! Escape pods launched into the vast stellar expanse towards safer locales, despite Captain Brown's, insistence that diverting all power to forward thrusters would pull the craft away from destruction.


21 posted on 12/25/2012 2:47:38 PM PST by COBOL2Java (kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
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These are top tier companies within their respective industries, moving away.

Usually not all at once.

It took Fluor Corp. about 20 years to migrate out of California. It was headquartered in California since its founding at the start of the 20th century, and it became one of the largest international engineering companies in the world.

Southern California also housed its largest operating division, followed by Houston, in size.

Starting in the 1980s customers called for work to be done in Texas, to save costs, in the largely cost-plus mode of business.

By the early 2000s most employment had shifted to Texas, finalized by moving the corporation’s headquarters to Irving TX, a Dallas suburb.

Fluor and Bechtel (San Francisco) frequentlycompete for #1 in the world, measured by Engineering News Record, an industry magazine.

https://enr.construction.com/toplists/DesignBuild/001-100.asp

The pattern repeats, concerning Real Estate Title Insurers.

First American is the nation’s largest. Fidelity is 2nd.

A few years ago Fidelity moved corporate Hq. from Santa Barbara CA, to Jacksonville FL.

Northrup-Grumann is one of the largest Defense contractors, and they recently moved Corp. Hq. from SoCal to a Wash. DC subrb.

California lawmakers can’t be oblivious to these facts.

Once gone, the Corporate taxes and employee taxes paid in California go away permanently.

California once had weather, lifestyle and growing economy to attract businesses and employees.

Now just weather. If you plan to be a young adult without a good job, it is still a fun place for you, your skateboard, etc.


25 posted on 12/25/2012 3:02:34 PM PST by truth_seeker
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So bye-bye, Miss American Pie.
Drove my chevron to the levee,
But the levee was dry


26 posted on 12/25/2012 3:03:34 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Go east??)
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Sad to see this happening to what was once the best spot in the lower 48 (and my birthplace), but it is what it is.

Hopefully one day after California hits rock bottom, the citizens there will begin demanding more conservative governance. Until then, the exodus will continue.

27 posted on 12/25/2012 3:07:32 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Can’t fix stupid and apparantly can’t vote it out either. The termites will literally have to destroy the edifice and come crashing down. Disgusted with the whole lot of them and yet they multiply. Help us O God.


28 posted on 12/25/2012 3:11:25 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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Dallas/Ft. Worth or Houston?


31 posted on 12/25/2012 3:38:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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My first reaction was that this move would be a boon to Texas’ economy but on second thought I also realize that this also means 800 more liberals to screw up the vote next time around.

There are already many cars cruising around in Houston with foreign license plates that say ‘Land of Lincoln’, ‘The Garden State’ and ‘The Golden State’, etc.

Pretty soon Texas will become just like the states that these folks are trying to escape.


34 posted on 12/25/2012 3:54:36 PM PST by 353FMG
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Welcome....but leave your looney Leftist ideas at the border. We like Texas the way it is. If you don’t, move to one of the sink-hole states that have more government jobs than private sector jobs.


38 posted on 12/25/2012 4:09:46 PM PST by txrefugee
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Gone to Texas


40 posted on 12/25/2012 4:26:48 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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I’m glad the actors will be left behind. It would make a great twilight zone episode.


44 posted on 12/25/2012 4:45:54 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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