Businesses Exit California and Illinois

Townhall ^ | 12/27/11 | Mike Shedlock

[Nachum]

Businesses have tad it with poor business conditions in two of the most dysfunctional states in the union, California and Illinois. In an editorial, the Orange County Register reports Even profitable firms fleeing California Democratic reaction to the news that Waste Connections, a $3.6-billion company and major Sacramento-area employer, is headed to Houston to seek a friendlier business climate tells other businesses all they need to know about the attitudes of those who run California's government. (Snip) The Chicago Tribune lists 10 companies with an eye in exiting the state in Illinois companies eyeing an exit

[Nachum]

Obamanomics

[ottbmare]

I hear that Perdue, the chicken-packing company, is planning to leave the Eastern Shore of Maryland and move to North Carolina because NC is a right-to-work state, and Maryland is an overregulated liberal hellhole that discourages business. If Perdue leaves, this will create a six-billion-dollar hole in the state economy. An already depressed Eastern Shore will look like Hiroshima.

Liberals are slow learners.

[Windflier]

I relocated my business from California to Texas six years ago. I’m just one of thousands who’ve done so.

I really don’t know what it’s going to take for California voters and politicians to get the message and react appropriately. They’re bleeding jobs, wealth, and talent by the bucket loads.

[mdmathis6]

This pattern of businesses leaving lib hell holes may also presage the start of the next great civil conflict. Business people are smart...they’ll go to regions of relative financial saftey and they’ll power the economies of those regions who wish to establish themselves as new contitution based republics.

[re_nortex]

I hear that Perdue, the chicken-packing company, is planning to leave the Eastern Shore of Maryland and move to North Carolina because NC is a right-to-work state, and Maryland is an overregulated liberal hellhole that discourages business. If Perdue leaves, this will create a six-billion-dollar hole in the state economy. An already depressed Eastern Shore will look like Hiroshima.

Liberals are slow learners.

These two maps illustrate everything you said to a 'T':

The onetime slave states have now become the truly free states where liberty is cherished. To a remarkable extent, the Right to Work States repudiated Marxism in the 2008 election, casting votes for the Palin ticket. Unions (as well as the vile minimum wage) continue to hold America back from its true economic might.

Let business thrive, free from the boot heel of government regulation and union thuggery! Then watch as our economy triumphs, taking its rightful place of unmatched supremacy.

[5th MEB]

Gee , what a surprise. Californian and Illinois; the two states most screwed up by politicians and community organizers.
If the people of this state ever decide to stop electing idiots like governor moonbeam and his cohort of imbeciles in the legislature I will probably drop dead of shock.

[plaidness]

Real Estate business, so hard to move. Employ 40 persons. Would definitely depart Los Angeles for TX. ‘You lose, you pay’ alone is enough. It’s not just the taxes here. It’s the laws and governmental abuse. Legal allowances and rulings in favor of residents and employees is insane. Regulations are over burdensome. Corruption in the open without respite. And the taxes don’t help.

Quick example: Tenant stops paying rent. Landlord sues to recover unit. Tenant gets a free tenant legal service to assist, funded by our tax dollars. Asks for a jury trial. To get to court will take about 2 months and $900, jury trial costs about $9,000, tenant not paying the whole time. Tenant never has to pay - win or lose.

Worker’s Comp - worse! :-(

[Carry_Okie]

Businesses have tad it with poor business conditions in two of the most dysfunctional states in the union, California and Illinois.

Guess what I think of an author who misses a typo in the first three words?

[MarineBrat]

I love to read about real men packing up and leaving for places less parasitic.

[monocle]

How different are these stories from the wave of outsourcing to foreign countries? The Obama administration has been the most anti-business administration of all time and our high unemployment numbers confirm my assertion.

[ScottinVA]

“Business people are smart... they`ll go to regions of relative financial safety...”

That is, until the NLRB begins dictating what, where, and how businesses move..

..oh, wait..

[ScottinVA]

California seems to pride itself as being in the forefront of national trends. If America goes as goes California, where will businesses migrate then?

[TomT in NJ]

It is interesting that Colorado and Montana are not Right to Work states. Could explain why they are not reliable Republican states.

[Montana_Sam]

One thing about Montana might be the continued influence of the mining unions in Butte and Anaconda.