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I was born in California, and just get sick of all the lies and BS bashing. I've moved to get away from the overpopulation, but still am very close (2 miles away). If you want to bash California you better be able to take a dose of your own medicine. There's a reason it is the US economic leader. One of the best places to live weather wise, agriculture, jobs, and geographically the most diverse state. I never said it was the greatest, but being the economic leader really makes the statement for itself.
If Cali is the "US economic leader", then I'm jumping ship.
Isht happens. Quite literally. Let's not pretend that preventable industrial accidents don't happen anywhere else.
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Originally Posted by MrWillys
More people employed in California than Texas and with higher wages. Texas can be proud though with a higher per capita poverty rate than California. You can buy cheaper homes on the oil soaked gulf coast in Texas compared to the pristine beaches of California. And those brown lakes compared to Lake Tahoe and the Alpine lakes of California are to die for, or from. I'm sure the people from Toyota moving from California to a 3rd world state like Texas will be overjoyed.
Census Bureau says Cali still has more folks living in poverty, period. That's just the ones that actually answered the Census forms as you obviously know. Cali has its share of oil soaked goodness, too. Or did you just forget that tanker crash in 'Frisco last year? Evidently, Texas is getting plenty of your natives, but as long as they keep it to that dump that is Austin, fair enough. The project manager I am working for grew up in LA. Why did he move, I asked..."work".
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Originally Posted by tijlover
And why move so far away, when you have next door Nevada with no state income tax, far lower property taxes than Texas, and cheap housing?
Easy. You can't ship cars on cargo freighters down the Colorado River. At least I would not try it.
California's agriculture industry is being devastated by the Democrats in Sacramento in hellbent pursuit of their liberal extremist agenda, and especially the Central Valley, with millions of acres as desolate as something straight out 'The Grapes Of Wrath' or 'Nebraska'
Exactly. Yet there are many posters who want to turn it into a soapbox talk about taxes and regulations and CA vs. Texas. It's a move by headquarters and marketing/sales departments - which are administrative in nature and involves relatively few matters in terms of regulations (compared with a manufacturing operation).
As far as taxes - well, they'd still have to pay state taxes on business generated in those states which have state income taxes. I'd think if you sold a car in California, you're still liable for California state tax.
Toyota doesn't sell vehicles via this office - whether it is in California or Texas.
Toyota dealers collect sales tax (which is paid by the buyer) in each state where a vehicle is sold. Toyota doesn't see or touch this money.
Toyota Inc. will pay income tax somewhere - surely some is paid in Japan. I don't know how or if they pay any US corporate income taxes. That shouldn't change through a move to Texas.
Exactly. Yet there are many posters who want to turn it into a soapbox talk about taxes and regulations and CA vs. Texas. It's a move by headquarters and marketing/sales departments - which are administrative in nature and involves relatively few matters in terms of regulations (compared with a manufacturing operation).
As far as taxes - well, they'd still have to pay state taxes on business generated in those states which have state income taxes. I'd think if you sold a car in California, you're still liable for California state tax.
Why doesn't Toyota build vehicles in Ca? That's why Toyota moved out, this is a natural phase 2 when Ca lost the plant. Wonder if it has to do with high cost, taxes and Ca regs for plants! Think a little deeper Ca or you will never know what hit you when it all crashes on you. If you can't ID the real problem you have no hope to fix it or stop it.
Well, the Volunteer State did spend quite a bit of money to get VW to build their plant in Chattanooga. Also Nissan has a big operation centered around Smyrna...will they expand to your area?
Sadly, I would have to say no they will not expand this way. Yeah, southeast Tennessee has that big VW plant where they make the Passat. East central Tennessee has the Knoxville metro area and a lot of industry and a lot of tourism with the Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg, Dollywood, etc. This part of the state in NE Tennessee, there is very little big industry and mostly low paying jobs, despite also having a large metro area when you combine the "Tri-Cities" in the extreme NE part of the state with a metro population of 200,000+ people. We have all of the nice mountains as well to the east of the metro, but not the fancy parks and Dollywood like east central TN has. There are some factory jobs here and there, but not many. Most people work in supermarkets and restaurants. The only good paying jobs are hospitals and lawyers, lol. We do have several hospitals and obviously people are getting money somewhere, we have the big fancy subdivisions and $1,000,000+ houses here and there... many of those are probably people that have retired from somewhere else and moved here. In fact, our "neighbors" have a $1,000,000 house that we can about throw a rock and hit, but we can only see the roof over the hill and here we live in a $70K log house and the houses coming up the road to our house are $40K houses if that, but it is and older neighborhood, most of the people are elderly and have lived here for decades... some did a better job of upkeep. Our little city is growing quickly however, we have about 55K population and many more huge shopping centers are going up. I mean I do not know of many towns that will have both a Cabellas and a Bass Pro shop, but apparently our town thinks it will work with two of them (one in VA and one in TN, but same state). We will see, we do have alot of lakes, mountains and it is a outdoor paradise, many say it will be a disaster however. There is one HUGE factory called Eastman Chemical in Kingsport - which is one of the bigger factory jobs in this part of the state.
I was with you the whole way . . . until you said, "Texas is the greatest state". You were on a roll, than ruin it by saying something silly. Lost all credibility.
Chicago got its reputation as being the Windy City because of their long-windedness about how great Chicago is, the greatest city in the country!
Texas should then be called the Windy State for similar reasons!
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Evidently, Texas is getting plenty of your natives, but as long as they keep it to that dump that is Austin, fair enough. The project manager I am working for grew up in LA. Why did he move, I asked..."work".
