"Perry, who made two visits to California to lure employers to his state, said Texas offered Toyota $40 million in incentives from the taxpayer-funded Texas Enterprise Fund. The Republican governor said Toyota is expected to invest $300 million in the new headquarters."
Nothing wrong with that. The employees will get a 10 percent raise with no taxes incurred. As a job seeker it is good. California is going to lose a lot of business and fast. They are at the top of highest taxes in a lot of things in the continental US for a long time and companies are finding it better to leave that god forsaken state.
California can't afford incentives. Texans make more with less taxes than California. My company in Iowa after Mexico send their stuff to Texas as when we had facilities in California and dealing with the union, they packed bags and sent more to Texas. Cheaper to deal with them with same pay as the Californians. Hell if I didn't marry my wife, I could make 140k a year in Texas now with my position with the company. She is thinking if she gets pregnant, she might want to move there and get a bigger house with 3 kids. She has no problems starting a business with her CPA and my old company want me back badly and offered six figures salary.
This is interesting, California tax business kills companies.
besides, California’s business climate is becoming an even bigger downer. California has become infamous with business executives and owners there not only for high tax rates and complex taxing schemes but also for overzealous regulations and regulators that have managed to stifle the entrepreneurial energy of thousands of companies.
it has gotten so bad that Hollywood movies are being produced outside the state because of taxes and regulations.
I guess when you are the most populous state with the most illegals and most unemployed and have to take care fo them you tax business and movie industry too death to pay for them and your pensions.
Good job California, no wonder you stink as a state but have the good weather that even old folk avoid because of your climate.
is Texas the 8th largest Economy in the world?
Silicon Valley is still as valuable as anything going on in Texas economic wise.
Texas is horrible. Pretty much everyone I know who's lived there hates it. But then again they're the same as California largely too.
or higher, yes. I have a few friends and family members that live there and love it.
Texas is horrible. Pretty much everyone I know who's lived there hates it. But then again they're the same as California largely too.
Texas is 14th
i will let you take a guess on who is 8th
a friend who lived there for a little while has this shirt:
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i liked Austin and Houston surprised me on how much i liked it. Lockheart for the food is great too
find print is hard to read and i have good eyes with no glasses being in the mid 40's.
Austin is great because it's kind of like a liberal college town, and certain areas of Houston are liberal.
Austin in particular is nothing like the rest of Texas,probably the only place I'd want to live.
And cost of living is always going to play a major role anywhere you go. My family could've moved to San Diego where all of my dad's family is (my mom's side is in San Fran). Mom and Dad were aware of the cost of living and how 200k will get you a small townhouse with 5 feet of front yard, while 200k in Georgia can get you a house in a residential community living next to Doctors and Lawyers.
The reason we decided not to move there was simply because we like being on the other side of the country by ourselves. There's no family drama of aunts and uncles and cousins, and you know my folks have been here since the 70's, so we kind of started our own little community here of friends.