Obama adopts the California Way (to Nevada)
The Golden State is beginning to lose its luster in large measure because legislators surely assumed that given our state’s climate and natural beauty, people would pay extra to live here. And that may have worked for a time. Indeed, having lived here for more than a decade, I am loath to leave. I love the fact that it’s November and needed only a light cotton sweater when I went out last night. I still marvel at the beauty of the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains raising behind the many buildings of this megapolis. And I delight in the palm trees all around us, even right in front of my building.
But, businessmen don’t just see the natural beauty of this state, they also see how the cost of business continues to rise because of the taxes and regulations, generations of Democratic politicians have imposed on us, with all too many Republican governors acquiescing in their meddling. And so they flee the state. I recall recently seeing a TV commercial urging California “business owners to relocate to Southern Nevada.” It was part of a Nevada Development Authority (NDA) campaign reminding Californians of the “high taxes and strict business regulations” in the once-Golden State and highlighting
. . . Nevada’s business-friendly attitude and the fact that business owners pay no corporate or personal income tax and have much lower workers’ compensation rates. “Just looking at the numbers, I don’t know why a California business owner would NOT relocate to Southern Nevada,” said Somer Hollingsworth, NDA president and CEO. “Business owners would be able to make more money, hire more employees, and buy more equipment. They could do more with their business in Nevada than they ever could in California.”
It seems that Barack Obama wants to do to the United States why his fellow partisans have done to the Golden State. Yesterday, “Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer David Farr said the U.S. government is hurting manufacturers with regulation and taxes and his company will continue to focus on growth overseas“:
“Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said today in Chicago at a Baird Industrial Outlook conference. “Cap and trade, medical reform, labor rules.” . . . .
Companies will create jobs in India and China, “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something,” Farr said.
Via Instapundit. What Nevada seeks to be for California businesses, India and China may soon become for American enterprises, should Obama get his way.
That California’s Barbara Boxer has become such a champion of “cap and trade” shows just how clueless that Democrat has become to the goings on in the state she represents in the United States Senate. Is she so blind about the reasons employers are feeling the Golden State that she wants to apply its regulatory model nationwide? Or maybe she thinks that the draconian regulations she proposes will even things out across the country, making California no worse a climate for doing business than any other state.
No worse than other American states, but a lot worse than foreign nations. I suggest she and President Obama inquire into the identity of a certain Mr. Galt.
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I only wear a t-shirt, shorts and my Crocs sandals.
It amazes me how liberals piss & moan about “outsourcing” and how nothing is made in America anymore while the people they voted for make damn sure they keep it going. What’s worse is they stand in the way of trade and are fighting tooth and nail to keep out job providing foreign investment.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — November 12, 2009 @ 3:13 am - November 12, 2009
Central Nebraska is the most beautiful place I’ve ever lived. You have to like the melancholy desolation of the Plains, I guess, but if that’s your thing, then this is the place. And the business climate is great–Warren Buffet just bought Burlington Northern, and there are trains all over the place out here. If I were a businessman, I’d set up a factory in one of these small towns near a railroad. The people here have a strong work ethic. The architecture is beautiful, too–lots of old, brick buildings. Also, there’s a college every 50 miles or so. It’s the Republican Vermont.
Comment by Ashpenaz — November 12, 2009 @ 9:54 am - November 12, 2009
As a proud Minnesotan, we are coming up on the Sorel’s and parka season.. some day though I intend to be a snow bird somewhere in the southwest. It is beautiful here none the less, and we have Brett Favre now:)
We have the same issues with bleeding jobs that Cal does, only South Dakota is enticing our businesses with same arguments as Nevada. We are bleeding some, but it would be much worse except for our Gov Tim Pawlenty, he has kept the Dems somewhat at bay. I shudder to think what will happen if we get a Dem Gov next year, there will be no stopping them as they control both State House and Senate.
I sure hope the Republicans can make some inroads in ‘10 on the Federal level. I feel the Dems just dying to get into all our bank accounts and spread their form of socialism.
Comment by Libertygal — November 12, 2009 @ 11:11 am - November 12, 2009
My employer is, like many, relocating many facilities to China and India. It’s cost driven and it’s going to continue. Interestingly, all of the folks in the NE whose jobs are now endangered are hard core democrats. Karma?
Comment by Kevin — November 12, 2009 @ 11:22 am - November 12, 2009
Its called the race to the bottom. That seems to be a Republican speciality.
Oh by the way – how is Nevada’s financial condition?
A looming deficit roughly half the size of their entire budget, I hear….
Comment by Tano — November 12, 2009 @ 1:21 pm - November 12, 2009
Tano, your description of the Democrat specialty called the race to top, prosperity and growth did not come through on my computer.
Could you re-post it please?
Comment by heliotrope — November 12, 2009 @ 1:29 pm - November 12, 2009
There was a great article yesterday that really laid out what business leaders in the US are thinking.
“We as a company today are putting our best people, our best technology and our best investment in these marketplaces to grow,” he said. “My job is to grow that top line, grow my earnings, grow my cash flow and grow my returns to the shareholders. My job is not to shrink and roll over for the U.S. government.”
And why should they? Delusional Tano thinks other people will pay for the skills he and his Obama Party are teaching our students and future workforce. What should we expect from a country in which students spend hours being taught hymns to Barack Obama and where judges like Sonia Sotomayer claim that test results are irrelevant if they don’t reflect the correct racial balance?
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 12, 2009 @ 2:28 pm - November 12, 2009
Its called the race to the bottom. That seems to be a Republican speciality.
Actually, the American manufacturing structure has already hit bottom, wherein the Obama Party unions have demanded maximum pay and benefits for minimal and low-quality work.
How does Detroit look these days, Tano? It’s a city dominated by you and your party, where the major industry is now under your government control.
And you’re probably orgasmic over that, aren’t you? Detroit is a success story to Obama Party members, isn’t it? Everyone on welfare, industries nationalized, criminal Obama Party members dominating the vote.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 12, 2009 @ 2:34 pm - November 12, 2009
And how’s Chairman Obama’s Trickle-up Poverty working out, Tano?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — November 12, 2009 @ 4:29 pm - November 12, 2009
Well, Nevada is a beautiful state, too! We’d be happy to have more California businesses relocate here, just so long as those Californians leave their left-wing politics at the state line. (Many of us are hoping to see Harry Reid voted out of office in a year.)
Nevada isn’t without it’s problems, though. Although it’s nice not to have a state income tax, the state tax structure is notoriously unpredictable since it is based primarily on revenues from gaming, tourism and consumer spending. Even when lots of Californians were relocating here during the real estate boom, the increase in population didn’t correspond with a comparable increase in revenues.
Comment by Kurt — November 12, 2009 @ 10:40 pm - November 12, 2009