Sadly it has changed Texas for the worse. While some of the economic gain was great, we have people here now who do not love Texas and are trying to make us like California, Seattle or wherever whence they came.
This must have helped moved California’s “income disparity” numbers closer to equality, right?
“Roughly 9,000 California companies moved their headquarters or diverted projects to out-of-state locations in the last seven years...”
And not to mention the tens of thousands of small businesses have also moved or shut-down. I was a small business owner with 5 employees in addition to my wife and myself, but closed the doors and went back to work for somebody else due to the excessive taxation and regulations imposed by the state. It just wasn’t worth it any longer and I’m happier now without the stress.
They replaced their businesses with government spending, paid for by the US taxpayers. That will come to a screeching halt when the government runs out of Other People’s Money. Their sizable parasite population of illegals would have to get off the dried up teat of state subsidies. Texas should build a fence all the way around its borders.
They lost 9,000 business.
Yet welcomed 900,000 illegals to their welfare roles.
I’m in CA, and it’s baaaad. My area (San Diego) has remained right of center, but it’s getting worse by bounds. My company, founded in San Diego, moved its HQ to the NoVA high tech corridor, and now we’re a shadow of our former selves in CA. Buck Knives moved out to Idaho. We still have WD-40, Qualcomm (struggling), Jack-in-the-Box, and others, but the ‘RATS led by Gov. Moonbeam 2.0 are crushing businesses and the entire state in every conceivable way.
Hollywood is even slowly, incrementally moving out.
Most of the studios are ending up in Georgia.
The downside of this is that those Liberal businesses people brought their stupid Liberal California disease with them.
They will undermine the states in which they settle to be more like that mess they came from.
Heeeey, man, bummer, man.
Pass me that joint, willya?
None has moved to Missouri.
(not you smartyaz, the headline)
All coastal elite counties except SJ. I will enjoy the melt down of the once great state. Sadly though, the libs will spread out and vote for the same policies in other states. Maybe by then I can move back.
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