Posted on 02/24/2021 7:18:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) best exemplifies the reason thousands of businesses are departing California.
Her attitude toward one of the state’s most successful companies, Tesla, was made clear with a childish vulgarity she aimed at the company’s CEO after learning that he was threatening to leave the Sunshine State. “F*** Elon Musk,” she tweeted unapologetically in early 2020. This wasn’t the first time Gonzalez dropped the “f-bomb” in a public forum.
The assemblywoman wasn’t “too concerned” about the innovative billionaire packing up his manufacturing plants because she believed the CEO needed the state more than taxpayers needed him. Tesla receives numerous green grants from Southland taxpayers.
Apparently, she misjudged the balance in the relationship. Musk’s response to the assemblywoman signaled his next move at the time: “Message received.” Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly held the same ill-advised view and wasn’t too concerned about Musk moving his billions in revenue and more than 40,000 employees to a friendlier business environment.
They have learned otherwise. Tesla joins a formidable list of high-tech companies fleeing bad government and relocating to Texas, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Oracle Corp. McKesson Corp., and expansions of Apple, Google and Facebook. There is a new name for the trend: “Techsodus.”
Musk will be the first to admit that insults are hardly the tipping point for a CEO deciding to relocate to another state. The best reason is summed up by a relocation specialist cashing in on the trend: “California’s regulatory environment is the most costly, complex and uncertain in the nation,” Joseph Vranich recently said. And it’s gotten worse.
The laws have become so confusing and so complex that California has earned the dubious distinction as rated among the top “judicial hellholes” in the nation, according to CEOs polled by Chief Executive magazine.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It has reached a point to where the lawmakers fail to understand what’s in the laws -- all 10,000s of new pages.
Assemblywoman Gonzalez has contributed to this bureaucratic quagmire with her job-killing AB5 bill, targeting independent contractors. Her aim was to dismantle the gig economy (labor market with short-term contracts), specifically hurting part-time workers for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. Now they will be taxed as “employees,” forced to absorb the myriad layers of additional taxes, while struggling to earn a living.
The mandate ended up hurting not only adults, but children, too. Parents desperate to establish learning pods -- as an alternative to school closures -- were particularly upset dealing with the rigid standards of the mandate. Numerous conditions of the legislation must be met before hiring private tutors and teachers. Parents can wade through the legislation and take the law’s prescribed “ABC” test, to determine whether they meet the onerous definition of being an established business, according to the mandates.
When people are confused by the law they fear the law. Fear of the state is the objective. Fear equals control. Watch closely as the CA legislature passes a law that requires a huge "Relocation Fee" on business and citizens that sell their homes.
It would not surprise me if undercutting homeschoolers and tutors was the principal purpose of AB5 all along. From a strategic standpoint, that’s a far bigger issue to the left than Uber and Lyft drivers.
After 10 years of working in Silicone Valley my youngest left to take a year off to live abroad.
She’ll never go back and now unlikely to even work for any company based in California. Her job offers are impressive, many allowing 100% remote working but she’d still have to pay California income tax if that company is based here.
She’s considering living in Oregon and though Oregon has no sales tax it’s state income tax is actually higher than California’s and appears she’d be taxed by both states.
There’s still a lot of business to be had here and sunny California with its 40 million people many of them are very wealthy
The $4 billion corporation I work for is headquartered in Delaware if you look at the records but their headquarters is in San Jose
Our main office is in San Leandro
If you’re in the contracting business you have to be where the action is at
You have to be where customers can afford your product
...hmmmmm - this article seems to contradict what has been posted in most media for some time, viz:
“Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk said he has moved to Texas, taking aim at Silicon Valley and becoming one of the highest-profile executives yet to leave California during the coronavirus pandemic.”
Texas is not “the Sunshine State”........
Senora Gonzalez is typical of the members of the Communist/Democrat Party which is desperately — and quite effectively — driving this single party-run state into the toilet (oops! I meant bano).
Do you always have to be located where customers can afford your product? No.
Marathon Coach is an example. They build motor homes for the rich and famous. New models currently in stock list for $2,458,044.00 and above. They are selling stock models for $2.6 million and above that haven’t even started on the production line.
Marathon Coach is located in sleepy Coburg, OR, just north of Eugene.
She refers to California as the Sunshine State. Florida is the Sunshine State. I just wish writers would get their stuff right. It is a simple thing to get right and sloppy writing.
California’s gain is Texas’ loss. Yah, that’s what
I said and that’s what I meant. California became the
way it is because of the enormous population growth
over a few short decades. And, some of that stemmed
from the fact that the state recruited businesses
from the Northeast and Midwest. Unfortunately IMO
the depopulation of my home state won’t convince
us to return to simpler, less regulated times.
One of the historic attributes of California is
that it was populated by those with a “live and
let live” attitude. The problems arose when the
the Democrats became the “live and make others
live like you” party.
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