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Related: About this forumSuck it, conservatives: By any objective measure, California is the most business-friendly state
Remember how California is a state burdened with a high tax rate, significant regulation and extreme housing costs? Conservative think tanks like to claim it, and so does this New York Times writer. Yet if those burdens were so determinative, why would that same writer find this?
California is the capital of American business [...]
From 1965 through 1979, 10.07 percent of public companies were based in California. The number has continued to grow, so that from 2000-13, 19.46 percent of public companies had their headquarters in California.
Thats an astounding number. A state with 12 percent of our population now accounts for a fifth of all public companies. (In the 1970s, California was about 10 percent of the United States population.)
To be clear, the cost of housing in my adopted home state are definitely burdensome, trailing only those of Hawaii and Washington, DC (when did that happen?). But those supposedly burdensome regulations and taxes? They buy something. They buy a social safety net, security, the best public university system in the country (if not the world), culture and arts, sensible urban growth, a world-feeding agricultural sector, and a business climate that encourages not just the worlds entertainment center, but the worlds most innovative technology incubator. All the while, those regulations and taxes protect some of the worlds great natural wonders (Monterey Bay, Yosemite, Death Valley, Lake Tahoe, the Sierras, Redwood National Park) amidst great challenges, like massive population growth and drought.
Perhaps the real burden would be to lack those amenities, a burden most other states cannot overcome?
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/24/1572668/-Suck-it-conservatives-By-any-objective-measure-California-is-the-most-business-friendly-state
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Suck it, conservatives: By any objective measure, California is the most business-friendly state (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Sep 2016
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SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)1. K & R
vinny9698
(1,016 posts)2. Two Reasons
1. the weather
2. the quality of life
Auggie
(31,169 posts)3. Call it what it really is: Social Progressivism
This thread is so recommended!