Posted on 05/19/2018 11:36:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In recent years, the number of people moving away from the state of California has greatly outnumbered the number of people moving into the state. Reasons for the mass exodus include rising crime, the worst traffic in the western world, a growing homelessness epidemic, wildfires, earthquakes and crazy politicians that do some of the stupidest things imaginable. But for most families, the decision to leave California comes down to one basic factor…
Money.
For a lot of Californians, it simply does not make economic sense to remain in the state any longer. So over the past decade approximately 5 million people have picked up and moved to another state, and many believe that this trend is going to accelerate if California does not start doing things differently. The following is from an excellent article by Kristin Tate, the author of a new book entitled “How Do I Tax Thee?: A Field Guide to the Great American Rip-Off“…
The largest socioeconomic segment moving from California is the upper-middle class. The state is home to some of the most burdensome taxes and regulations in the nation. Meanwhile, its social engineering — from green energy to wealth redistribution — have made many working families poorer. As California begins its long decline, the influx outward is picking up in earnest.
I don’t know anyone that enjoys being taxed at extremely high levels, and in California extracting more and more revenue from the citizens has become an art form. California’s highest marginal tax rate is now a whopping 13.3 percent, and on average taxpayers are hit with a 9.3 percent rate…
Taxes also are much lower in Arizona than California. California residents pay nearly twice as much in state income taxes. The individual income tax rate is 4.54 percent in Arizona. It’s 9.3 percent in California, according to the Arizona Sun Corridor.
Under the old rules, the tax burden imposed upon Californians was mitigated by federal rules allowing for the deduction of state taxes. But now the new tax bill has made some major changes, and some experts believe that this will actually accelerate the exodus out of the state of California. The following comes from CNBC…
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined “So Long, California. Sayonara, New York,” Laffer and Moore (who have both advised President Donald Trump) say the new tax bill will cause a net 800,000 people to move out of California and New York over the next three years.
The tax changes limit the deduction of state and local taxes to $10,000, so many high-earning taxpayers in high-tax states will actually face a tax increase under the new tax code.
Of course taxation is only part of the equation.
For many, the exceedingly high cost of housing in California is the primary reason that they have chosen to leave. At this point, the average price of a home in California is more than $200,000 above the national average…
According to Zillow, the average price for a home in the U.S. was $261,000 in February 2018. The average home price in California was $469,000. In Oklahoma, it was $116,000.
And that $469,000 figure is for the state as a whole.
In Santa Clara County (the home of Google and Apple), the median price of a single family home is 1.4 million dollars.
Yes, you read that correctly.
In some areas of northern California, the housing bubble is completely out of control. For example, just recently a burned out husk of a home sold for more than $900,000…
Real estate agent Holly Barr says she’s never had a listing generate as much attention as the one on Bird Avenue in the San Jose neighborhood of Willow Glen. The house caught fire two years ago during a remodeling job. What was left was a burned-out husk of a California bungalow sitting on 5,800 square feet of land.
When Barr put the property on the market in April for $800,000, the listing made international headlines. It sold for over $900,000 — in less than a week. The burned down house will be razed and a new property will be built there that will likely sell for far more.
Well, if families cannot afford to buy a home, why don’t they just rent?
Unfortunately, we have seen rents spiral completely out of control as well…
The median monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the Los Angeles area is $2,249, and in San Francisco it’s almost $3,400, according to Zumper. The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the Los Angeles area is $3,200 and in San Francisco about $4,500. By comparison, the median rent for a one-bedroom in Las Vegas is $925 and in Phoenix $945, and for a two-bedroom in Las Vegas $1,122 and in Phoenix $1,137.
Ouch.
Sadly, rapidly rising prices have greatly contributed to the homelessness epidemic that California is dealing with right now.
Even though we are supposedly in an “economic recovery”, the number of homeless people in Los Angeles has risen by an astounding 50 percent over the last five years…
The homelessness issue has achieved a special distinction in Los Angeles. Having increased 50% during the past five years, “it’s supplanted traffic as the topic everyone talks about,’’ says Tom Waldman, spokesman for regional homeless agency.
The homeless are as visible as the Hollywood sign. More than two years after Mayor Eric Garcetti declared a “state of emergency,’’ about 41,000 are “unsheltered’’ — sleeping in cars, outside City Hall, under freeway overpasses. The Los Angeles Times calls it “a human tragedy of extraordinary proportions.’’
And it isn’t just families that are leaving.
In fact, sometimes entire companies are picking up and relocating to another state. For example, Price Pump Manufacturing Co. is leaving the Golden State and is heading for Idaho…
Price Pump Manufacturing Co., an 86-year-old company that has operated in Sonoma for 70 years, bought 6 acres of land in the Sky Ranch Business Center for about $86,000. The company plans to build a 40,000-square-foot plant at the industrial site east of Interstate 84 and south of Franklin Road.
The high cost of manufacturing in California made it more difficult to compete with other sellers in the United States and across the globe, president and CEO Bob Piazza said. He said the marketplace helps determines prices, and Price Pump could not simply raise prices to maintain a reasonable return on investment.
And I found another article today about a company that has decided to leave California and is relocating to Phoenix, Arizona…
A company that manufactures workbenches and lab furniture is relocating to Goodyear, near Phoenix, Arizona, to save money, while creating 30 new jobs in Arizona.
Matt McConnell, director of sales and marketing for IAC Industries, said the move will increase the stability and longevity of his business. IAC is located in Brea, California.
“The commercial property costs in California versus the commercial property costs in other states” made the decision easy, he said.
As long as tech giants such as Google and Apple are thriving, the trends that are driving such dramatic change in the state are likely to continue.
So we are likely to continue to see a very large exodus out of California, and those that are leaving will continue to fundamentally change the communities that they are moving into.
Because there is such a disparity between the number of people moving out and the number of people moving in, it actually costs nearly twice as much to take a U-Haul from California to Texas as it does to take a U-Haul from Texas to California…
The cost of popular moving truck services, like U-Haul, is largely created through the ironclad rules of supply and demand. Turns out, there is much higher demand for trucks leaving high-tax blue states heading to low-tax red states than vice versa.
A route from California to Texas, for example, is more than twice as expensive as a route from Texas to California. Want to go from Los Angeles to Dallas? $2,558. Returning back? $1,232.
Once upon a time, millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to California. It was a land of gorgeous weather, movie stars and endless opportunity.
But now the California Dream has turned into the California nightmare, and people are heading out of the state in droves.
Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.
How long before Cali follows the example of their model the former DDR (East Germany) and builds a wall to keep the wage earners/tax payers in?
The state and local governments will compensate for the outflow by imposing more ad higher restrictions on land use and housing.
Good friend of mine is closing his California multi-generational family business, and moving it to another state.
Why?
Taxes, regulations, and ever-increasing bureaucratic interference. He’s getting out while he still can.
Gerry Brown loves being an ever growing Big Frog in a shrinking pond.
Plus snakes, fire ants, flying cock roaches, aligators, humidity so high you have to bring multiple changes of clothes every day, biblical hurricanes, truly a terrible place, yes colorado is where you guys should go.
“And, Liberalism is a mental disease with no cure.”
G.K. Chesterton called it a mental disease over a hundred years ago.
However, my opinion is that all leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of a George Clooney to the murderous horrors of Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot, is of and from Satan. Leftism is a contaminant in the human cognosphere, not a natural component of it.
Satan is smarter than we are, and he never sleeps. Those over whom he has the most influence are like maniacally evil energizer demons.
Every once in a while one of them escapes, as David Horowitz did, but who knows how or why?
Anyway, Satan knows that leftism is bad for humanity. That’s why he invented it, and that’s why he flim-flams those he can into trying to force it on us all.
“I contend it’s primarily related to the import of 3rd world culture and general lawlessness.
The native born just can’t take it anymore.”
AND you can’t arm yourself to defend against that lawlessness.
They move to Texas and bring their lib ideas. They also cause property taxes to skyrocket.
5 million people in 10yrs?
That’s all?
i WOULD HAVE GUESSED 2-3X THAT AMOUNT OF REFUGEES.
Or in Tennessee. That’s where we went when we fled SoCal in 2015.
My concern now is that Nashville is getting too popular with celebutards. The country music crowd is fine, but the wildly overpaid narcissists from Hollywood are starting to flock there.
It’s worrying that Marsha Blackburn doesn’t have a double digit lead over the dem.
It’s the socialism...
Does that question really need to be asked?
I'll answer it anyway:
"Democrat Party control of the state government."
(And control of the major cities and counties too.)
He smoked a lot of weed in his younger days with Linda Rondstadt.
Now, try to argue that pot doesn’t cause brain damage.
...and I’ll argue the state shouldn’t even be trying to “maximize” tax receipts. It should be doing the minimum necessary. The Laffer Curve makes a good point that lowering or raising tax rates my not have the desired effect but the government always assumes that maximizing should always be the goal.
Absolutely right!
Remember the Greenland/Iceland trick?
Absolutely right!
Remember the Greenland/Iceland trick?
Absolutely right!
Remember the Greenland/Iceland trick?
So why are housing prices skyrocketing?
“AND you can’t arm yourself to defend against that lawlessness.”
BS!!!
One can legally purchase and own the Mossberg 590S, Ruger Mini-14, just about any kind of pistol and the Marlin 336...and just about any kind of high powered rifle, to include the M1A.
“Why Are So Many People Moving Out Of California?”
Simple : Sane People dislike communists and other murderous parasites running their lives.
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