Texas governor Rick Perry wants California businesses (San Francisco, Sacramento: sales, 2013)

[bradleyyo]

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday dismissed the efforts of Texas Gov. Rick Perry to recruit California businesses to relocate as a political stunt motivated by a breathless media.

The story received wide attention Monday when the Texas governor launched a statewide radio ad urging California businesses to move to the Lone Star State to take advantage of what Perry called a more favorable environment for companies.

Speaking at a news conference in West Sacramento, the California governor quoted philosopher Marshall McLuhan as Brown dismissed Perry and scolded reporters for giving more attention to the story than it deserves.

Noting that Perry spent just $26,000 on statewide radio, Brown called the ad campaign “a big nothing.” He went on to say people have been seeking to take what belongs to California since the gold rush.

“You go where the gold is,” he said. Perry is “not going to Lubbock, or whatever those places are that make up that state.”

Gov. Brown dismisses Texas' job-poaching efforts as 'a big nothing' - latimes.com

[Senno]

That is a pretty small media buy. /shrug

[mongozx]

Rick Perry: There are 3 things that make Texas a competitive state to do business. 1--dirt cheap affordability 2--dirt cheap labor 3--ummmm. Ummmmmmm. Ummmmm. . .

Ron Paul: Department of Energy?

While CA forges ahead with new forward thinking innovations the rest of the country waits and hopes to land our table scraps.

Nothing new here.

[augiedogie]

Plenty of people leaving Calif. every week to find better jobs, lower cost of living, safe streets, lower taxes. Perry just trying to let them know, Texas will welcome them with open arms. Probably working. I saw two cars today with California plates: in Lubbock. One thing we know. They're probably not here on vacation.

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by Prairieparson

Plenty of people leaving Calif. every week to find better jobs, lower cost of living, safe streets, lower taxes. Perry just trying to let them know, Texas will welcome them with open arms. Probably working. I saw two cars today with California plates: in Lubbock. One thing we know. They're probably not here on vacation.

Two California license plates?!?! Whoa! Before you know it, the other 36,998,000 will be clogging your streets. I can't wait. Good for you guys!

Not there for vacation? You sure got that right.

[Pito_Chueco]

These California vs. Texas threads are always fun!

[smartaz]

Originally Posted by Pito_Chueco

These California vs. Texas threads are always fun!

True true. It's entertainment.

[18Montclair]

Rick Perry is smoke and mirrors.

When Rick Perry announced his candidacy for President the other day, he growled that his goal as president would be to make Washington “as inconsequential in your lives as I can.”

Except when it comes to job creation. Over the last few years, government jobs have been awfully consequential in Texas: 47% of all government jobs added in the US between 2007 and 2010 were added in Texas.

The chart shows that Texas employment wasn’t down much at all in these years, as the state lost only 53,000 jobs. But looming behind that number are large losses in the private sector (down 178,000) and large gains (up 125,000) in government jobs.


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[Zelva]

Didn't CA send a 'delegation' to TX a couple years ago to interview x-CA-businesses? Guess we didn't learn much.... (Oh well, it's only been a couple years.....)

California Dreamin'—of Jobs in Texas (April 2011)
Hounded by taxes and regulations, employers in the once-Golden State are moving East.
John Fund: California Dreamin'—of Jobs in Texas - WSJ.com

Calif. can’t compete with Texas, study says - Jan Norman on Small Business : The Orange County Register

California politicians visit California jobs … in Texas « Hot Air

“We came to learn why they would pick up their roots and move in order to grow their businesses,” says GOP Assemblyman Dan Logue, who organized the trip. “Why does Chief Executive magazine rate California the worst state for job and business growth and Texas the best state?”

The contrast is undeniable. Texas has added 165,000 jobs during the last three years while California has lost 1.2 million. California’s jobless rate is 12% compared to 8% in Texas.

“I don’t see this as a partisan issue,” Mr. Newsom told reporters before the group met with Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry. The former San Francisco mayor has many philosophical disagreements with Mr. Perry, but he admitted he was “sick and tired” of hearing about the governor’s success luring businesses to Texas.

[Zelva]

Snip from the study....

Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, said, “If Californians still have trouble understanding why so many of our former neighbors have gone to Texas, this scorecard spells it out in painful detail.”
California does outperform Texas on a few measures:

• State and local property tax burden per capita: California $32.89, Texas $36.50
• Sales tax per $1,000 of personal income: California $25.62, Texas $29.47

But on most measures that the study uses, Texas comes out ahead:

• State sales tax rate: Texas 6.25%, California 8.25%
• Marginal corporate income tax rate: Texas 1% GRT, California 8.84%
• Total state and local government expenditures per capita: Texas $7,763.49, California $11,256.83
• Average annual growth in government spending: Texas 7.02%, California 7.29%
• Recession-related job loss from peak employment to July 2010: Texas, -2.3%, California, -8.7%

“The lighter regulatory burden in Texas also helps its economy flourish in comparison to California, which overloads businesses in the state with excessive costs and burdens,” the 2010 study says.