Posted on 03/26/2011 1:09:14 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Doug, Bring yourself and your Big Ol’ Company down here to Mississippi!
Unfortunately, business leaving liberal states (and/or countries) may be the only way to get their attention. Even then, I have my doubts...
You mean like it got Detroit’s attention?
Wisconsin woke up among the real working people of the state. Many companies made the announcement they were leaving the day that Quinn made the announcement with several mentioning Wisconsin.
Mr. Oberhelman should be receiving a letter from Gov. Scott any day now. When he became our new Governor, one of his first announcements was that Florida was again open for business. Although casting plants seem to be better suited for colder climates.
Buffalo, New York was kept afloat bt Bethlehem Steel for years. The local pols taxed the crap out of them. What are they going to do, they said amongst themselves, move the steel mill? Then, about thirty years ago, they just left. Buffalo has been circling the drain since there. I guess that it is impossible to get a liberal attention after all.
Liberal politicians in high tax states would rather sacrifice their economies to their unworkable Socialist policies, than implement conservative practices which actually promote growth and economic prosperity.
Liberalism is a mental disorder that makes one immune to facts and reason.
Sad to say, Detroit has been a lost cause for some time now. Even the middle class blacks are leaving in record numbers to the south as reported in an earlier story posted here earlier today.
So that leaves Detroit to the Islamists, I guess.
Like Reagan said, the more you tax something the less of it you get. But the Liberals know better dontchyaknow.
The board of directors has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. If growing in IL is more costly than growing elsewhere, and there are no business judgment reasons to choose Illinois, then the company is set up to be sued for growing in Illinois.
When the Caterpillar gets ILL-n-annoyed locked in a taxed cacoon then it sprouts wings and butterflies onward to greener pastures. Good luck with that Quinn the Dimwit.
In all seriousness, what’s apt to happen is an exemption/exception, or similar favors toward CAT. States and localities do tax favors all the time. This letter is just setting a public stage for a tax favors meeting. Pressure, if you will, from CAT. Give us favors, or we split.
Texas has free parking!
Maybe they will move to Wisconsin
Liberalism is a mental disorder that makes one immune to facts and reason.
^This^ should be printed on 3x5 cards and handed out to everyone on Earth, starting in America. Well put.
In 2015, both taxes are set to decline but remain above the prior rate.
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When was he last time you saw a tax rate decline.
Yo, Cat, as a resident, my advice to you is: you want to be one of the companies that starts the death spiral, not one of those hanging on at the end of it. Start crawling to the border now.
When you see kalifornia running ads portraying their state as a playground state, then you know it MUST really be BAD for them to have to be begging people to come and live over there!
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