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Tesla's move to Texas came after California legislator tweeted 'f-k Elon Musk
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Oct. 8, 2021
| Joshua Bote
Posted on 10/09/2021 6:19:00 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Friday that his company’s move to Texas was, in part, inspired by a California lawmaker's incendiary tweet to him.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; california; elonmusk; gavinnewsom; larryelder; lorenagonzalez; lorenasgonzalez; nancypelosi; tesla; texas; x
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To: artichokegrower
More liberals coming to Texas.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:18:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: GOPJ
California went from being the crown jewel of the United States to being a third world sh*thole
How dare you denigrate third world sh*tholes like that, most third world sh*tholes are far superior in every way to California.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:24:12 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: qwerty1234
ELON MUSK paid back EVERY loan-—ahead of time—with all interest applicable.
To: Responsibility2nd
I’ve read average Austinites saying they were already priced out of the market a year ago.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:25:50 AM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Leave. Us. Alone )
To: qwerty1234
Texans better hold on to their wallets, Elon the welfare queen is moving in.
Oh look, the peanut gallery is here. Never mind that Elon has delivered for every subsidy his corporations have received on a scale never before seen. He received far less then Boeing to return Americans to space, yet Boeing has yet to deliver and Elon is running a taxi service to the ISS. He received far less then the big three automakers and yet has the most successful EV by far. He has brought internet to areas of the country that barely had had any internet access options. And don't even get me started on what he has done to bring the cost down of delivering satellites to orbit, it's exponentially cheaper now by the way.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:28:05 AM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(2020: The year of unreported truths. )
To: qwerty1234
The tax loss for Kalifornia will be substantial.
While Musk may avoid personal taxes no matter where he lives because of annoying depreciation schedules and other mechanisms, having the gross receipts from Tesla land in Texas is a nice middle finger to the leftists here in Kalifornia.
I highly doubt Texas had to offer any additional incentives to lure him there.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:30:02 AM PDT
by
jcon40
(Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good )
To: JoSixChip
Agreed. Elon is running circles around his competitors.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:30:39 AM PDT
by
wgmalabama
(We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:44:05 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Lockdowns will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failure in modern history! Cui bono?)
To: bigfootbob
“...insane commies...”
We have a LOT of them around, these days.
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posted on
10/09/2021 7:49:03 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: artichokegrower
Looks like Calif. is once again screwing the golden goose.
Run businesses, there are far too many places that will welcome you and treat you far better than woke, tax em to death Calif.
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posted on
10/09/2021 8:10:29 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
To: artichokegrower
BFD on the move to uber lib Austin! Mini calipornia shuffle is all!
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posted on
10/09/2021 8:19:11 AM PDT
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
10/09/2021 8:26:01 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: qwerty1234
Do you usually put in a lot of effort to post such utter nonsense?
To: jcon40
The tax loss for Kalifornia will be substantial. Yup.
California loses in every way
While Musk may avoid personal taxes no matter where he lives because of annoying depreciation schedules and other mechanisms, having the gross receipts from Tesla land in Texas is a nice middle finger to the leftists here in California.
Actually Musk wins massively by moving to ,Texas (which he did last year) cause Texas has no state income tax, and Musk never took any salary from Tesla for the last 3 years or so, so he avoided the massive California income taxes.
However Musk is cashing in a huge chunk of Tesla shares in this quarter in Texas so will not pay any income taxes on that.
To: GOPJ
Dust bowl...heading to California.
Democrat bowl...leaving California.
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posted on
10/09/2021 8:38:06 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: artichokegrower
Lorena Gonzalez, California’s answer to AOC. Chuckle.
To: bigfootbob
That name confused me. Seattle has a commie on the city council named Lorena Gonzalez We should check that out. She probably got (s)elected to city councils and state legislatures all over the country to be a Marxist agitator.
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posted on
10/09/2021 8:56:29 AM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: jcon40
The tax loss will be absolutely astronomical. It's not about Elons' personal taxes. It's all the taxes and fees collected for each person employed in the state. Most people have never run a business and therefor have no idea about all the taxes and fees take from the business. Things like unemployment insurance, workers compensation insurance, FICA payroll tax, business incense fee aka tax and the countless other fees and taxes. That is all vanishing from California.
The people running that state don't have a clue on how economics actually works and they are going to be shocked when Kalifornia comes crashing down. Kaliforina is crashing now and they can't see it. They are in a death spiral, and keep doing all the wrong things. The People with money and brains will all leave the state. Some may be give no choice but to abandon family farms. They only thing that will be left is corruption and the people in extreme poverty.
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posted on
10/09/2021 9:00:38 AM PDT
by
CrippledRN
(The truth loves a challenge and a lie hates to be questioned)
To: ridesthemiles
Loans, maybe, what about the handouts? does he pay those back to? I didn’t think so.
To: JoSixChip
>>Elon has delivered for every subsidy his corporations have received on a scale never before seen.
Why are taxpayers giving subsidies to the richest person the planet to begin with? you don’t see a problem with that?
>>He received far less then Boeing
Getting less welfare than someone else just means you got less welfare than someone else, welfare is welfare; all corporate welfare is bad.
>>He has brought internet to areas of the country that barely had had any internet access options.
Not yet he hasn’t, and he is already has his mouth firmly in the trough of corporate welfare for that as well. Had it rolled it out without the taxpayer subsidies, then good on him - but he hasn’t - every business he goes into involves a very substantial handout from taxpayers to the richest person on the planet.
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