Posted on 02/22/2013 7:44:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Lone Star State Governor Rick Perry seriously amped up his West Coast recruiting efforts this month in response to California’s passage of Proposition 30, a statewide vote that dramatically increased the state’s personal income tax rate. Taxpayers there will be paying up to 3% more on earned income, and that increase is retroactive to January 1, 2012. More than a thousand miles away from Sacramento, a far more positive outlook counters the frustration felt by many California employees and business owners.
Just last week Governor Perry met with 200 Golden State business owners, and two weeks ago he purchased $24,000 in radio ads intended to lure entrepreneurs with lower individual taxes and a business-friendly climate. The 30-second spots tout Texas’ “zero income tax, low overall tax burden, sensible regulations and fair tax system.” The targeted campaign and face-to-face marketing efforts appear to be paying off… in spades.
According to the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, since the passage of Prop 30 in the November election, California-based company relocation inquiries have doubled, possibly tripled, in Central Texas. West Coast entrepreneurs feeling the personal financial stress of an out-of-control state budget and tax policy have heard Texas’ message, and they’re responding.
Even California’s Democratic Lt. Governor, Gavin Newsom, has serious concerns about the economic impact of his state’s tax policies. According to John Fund of National Review, Newsom declared after visiting with former California-based companies that now call Texas their home, “I am impressed with the focus on job creation I’ve seen here. We need to have a more balanced business climate in California.” This sign of further working wealth migration from California into Texas brings a more fiscally relevant meaning to George Strait’s country classic, “All My Exes Live in Texas.”
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California Gun Retailer Abandons California for Shiner, Tx.
Shield Tactical moving retail division to Shiner, Tx.
From their Facebook page:
Shield Tactical is pleased to announce that we are moving our retail division to Shiner, Texas. We are pleased to have neighbors such as TBRC and the Spoetzl Brewery (home of Shiner Beer). Shipping etc will not be substantially affected.
Out training division will remain in CA until the legislature outlaws everything.
Link: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/02/21/gun-retailer-abandons-california-for-texas/
And Florida where the Big Cities and their parasitic suburbs continually elect:
The mentally deranged psycho Alan Grayson- he’s like a viral spore, when one district wises up to his mental condition he sails with the wind and “pops” up somewhere else getting elected by the low info voters in his “new” district
or the convicted felon Alcee Hastings
EXODUS...delivering risk takers from evil!!!
All I can say is “Watch out Texas”. Some years back, I lived in Colorado. At the time, Californian’s were moving into Colo. at an alarming rate due to better jobs and lower taxes. Also at that time, Colorado was a fairly “common sense” state with equal ranks politically, except for Bolder, the mecca of liberalism. Take a look at Colorado today and it has pretty much become just the opposite from what it once was. Now it is more like Bolder and California. I rest my case stating once again, “Watch out Texas!”
Good one!
“As I have mentioned to my local rep and all I know in the state capital the down side is enticing all these Californians to move here and bring their politics with them.”
Well, it’s time Texas took them for a while. We in California have had them here for too long! California has been a magnet for “migrants” from the East Coast for half a century. They came her to crap in our state because it’s a nicer place to live. Personally, I’m glad to see them leave, because it will improve our situation quicker if the California government looses the revenue that they provided. Good luck with “controlling” them. We failed.
P.S. can we send Boxer and Pelosi? Boxer came from Brooklyn and Pelosi from Baltimore!
No, but we’ll take Duncan Hunter... and Camp Pendelton.
I grew up in Minnesota. That state is now an embarassment!
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