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California Businesses are Leaving FAST.

California Businesses are Leaving FAST.

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It’s no mystery what causes companies to leave California — high taxes, undue regulation, workers’ comp costs, a legal environment stacked against businesses, and lengthy and costly construction permitting requirements.

Other contributing factors include agencies being staffed with individuals unsympathetic or even hostile to business concerns. Wildly excessive government spending contributes to unpredictable government behavior at the state level and also the local level.

A California blogger has put together a list of 100 businesses that have left California due to the anti-business climate of this state.

The important thing to remember is, when jobs leaves a state with it goes state revenue. All of that revenue that would be spent on education, PD, fire, infrastructure and even the pet projects of the elected officials disappears….So what happens then? THEN the state “Borrows money” to keep doing the same stuff with less money…NOW California is BANKRUPT, and business keep leaving, due to the climate of “Hate the rich, tax the middle, and give to the undeserving”…..

Check this out:
From The Business Relocation Coach

Apparently, No state agency keeps track of enterprises that move out of California or which companies elect to expand in other states even though they are headquartered here. That lack of knowledge is quite convenient for elected officials who deny that state’s anti-business attitudes and policies hurt commercial enterprises. Hence, without a central repository, it’s difficult to determine how many jobs are lost specifically because of California’s unfriendly business environment.

In this blog, I’ve attempted to note facility moves and disinvestments in California on a catch-as-catch can basis based on incomplete media reports. Below is a roundup of activity that I’ve been able to find since I started this blog in July, 2009. This imperfect and incomplete list of 100 moving-out-of-state events is the “tip of the iceberg” about the loss of commercial enterprises in California:

  • Abraxis Health, a unit of Los Angeles-based Abraxis BioScience Inc., opened a new plant that will create 200 jobs in 2010 — in Phoenix. This follows the company’s Phoenix expansions that occurred in 2007 and 2008.
  • Alza Corp. in 2007 eliminated about 600 jobs in drug R&D while also exiting its Mountain View, Calif., HQ. At the time the company said that its 1,200-person Vacaville facility will continue to operate. But the Vacaville Reporter on Oct. 23, 2009 revealed that the plant is being offered for sale by J&J, its parent company. It’s unclear if more layoffs are in the facility’s future.
  • American AVK, a producer of fire hydrants and other water-related products, moved from Fresno to Minden, Nevada.
  • American Racing moved its auto-wheel production to Mexico, ending most of its 47-year operation in California.
  • Apple Computer has expanded in other states, most recently with a $1 billion facility planned for North Carolina.
  • Audix Corporation relocated from Redwood City, Calif., and to accommodate growth moved to a 78,000-square-foot facility in Wilson, Oregon.
  • Apria Healthcare Group of Lake Forest is shifting jobs from California to Overland Park, Kansas, a K.C. suburb.
  • Assurant Inc. cut 325 jobs in Orange County and consolidated positions in Georgia, Ohio and South Carolina.
  • Automobile Club of Southern California placed 1,100 jobs in Texas.
  • Barefoot Motors, a small “green” manufacturer, moved from Sonoma and will grow in Ashland, Oregon.
  • Bazz Houston Co. located in Garden Grove, has slowly been building a workforce of about 35 people in Tijuana. In early 2010 the company said it expects to move more jobs to Mexico, citing cost and regulatory difficulties in Southern California.
  • Beckman Coulter, a biomedical test equipment manufacturer headquartered in Brea, relocated part of its Palo Alto facilities to Indianapolis, Indiana, two years ago. In early 2010, it’s making a multimillion-dollar investment to expand and create up to 100 new jobs in Indiana. The company said the area offers a “favorable business environment and lower total cost of operations, plus a local work force with strong skills in both engineering and manufacturing.”

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California Votes today

California Votes today

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Those of us stuck behind enemy lines get a chance to voice our anger over the tax and spend leadership of this once great state.

Let me lay out the Propositions and how I am voting:

Proposition 1-A: THE “RAINY DAY” BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND -NO
A plan that is a bait and switch by the elite power brokers in Sacramento, this will cause taxes to be INCREASED. It proposes to limit future deficits by increasing the State’s ‘rainy day’ fund,” but it would also exact “higher state tax revenues of roughly $16 billion.” Yes, Proposition 1-A is nothing less than the authorization of a massive tax increase to deposit in a state “reserve.. California had a big reserve and could have one again if it addressed some of the real issues, like the BILLIONS of dollars annually being sucked out of the coffers by the illegal immigrants and their 3.5 kids apiece. (I’ll never vote for another tax increase as long as long as the Illegal Immigrant issue is overlooked)

Proposition 1-B: EDUCATION FUNDING. PAYMENT PLAN-NO

This is another wonderful proposition and it’s basically saying that YOU and I need to pay more so the teachers union doesn’t lose revenue. I love the teachers and think they are underpaid, BUT I also think enough is enough. You are getting paid by the state for asses in seats, over half of the asses in the seats are from Illegal Immigrants, maybe not all now, but the ones that have come in since prop 187 as passed and then overturned in the courts. IF those seats were empty your class sizes would be smaller, your work load less and  the need to build more schools would be non existent.

Proposition 1-C: LOTTERY MODERNIZATION ACT-NO

A shell game, it is arm twisting the creditors and adding more taxes to players and of course the lottery was supposed to benefit education….but every year there seems to be a problem with educational funding….Hmm perhaps a union is behind this??? Hell No on this too.

Proposition 1-D: CHILDREN’S SERVICES FUNDING-NO

The California Legislature imposed a tax on cigarettes a few years back  for early childhood programs. Now, here is that same Legislature telling you that it wants to move that money around in whatever way it sees fit. Time to reign in the reckless fucknozzles and tell them NO MORE!

Proposition 1-E: MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING.-NO
TEMPORARY REALLOCATION

Californians voted in 2004 to provide funds for specific mental health services. It was called Proposition 63. Now comes the Legislature to undo the work of the supporters of Proposition 63 by getting what they hope is a forgetful public to take money from that purpose and give it over to another purpose. Typical of the con men running this state… all we are seeing in these props are shell games and bait and switch.

Proposition 1-F: ELECTED OFFICIALS’ SALARIES. PREVENTS PAY INCREASES DURING BUDGET DEFICIT YEARS-NO

This is hilarious, what do you think will happen if you prevent pay increases if the budget isn’t balanced? You will get a balanced budget on the backs of the working class every year! We will see quicker hand ringing than this year.. the RINO’s that actually fought tax increases and didn’t back down will be much quicker to back down if their wallet is tied to their vote….I say screw and hit the NO button on all of them.

The real TEA party voice starts in California, not because we as a state are conservative or liberal or Dem or Rep, it’s because WE ARE TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY! and we get to vote our voices TODAY! Let the idiots in Sacramento hear you California.