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But most people prefer to live in a beautiful, prosperous state that offers many opportunities to build a good life, and are willing to make sacrifices to do so. South Dakota ... not so much. #analogyfail
Commifornia is just reaping the rewards of cheap, illegal labor, just as they have always done. While the rest of us toil away for an honest living. But, there is no shame in earning an honest living. In fact, some people are proud to do so. These people are rich beyond calculation, and worth far more than any illegal laborer or business owner that employs them could ever be.
Yep. Just ask Californians about their Southern California water deal. Those crops they're proud of, well half of them are just to cover up the fact that owning their water is a huge business. They use slave labor on top of it and their conditions are a horrid mess.
There success benefits a few and is definitely made on the backs of the poor. I guess a few would be proud of that. So, congrats you few.
California is a mess. Stop posting nonsense. If it were not for the high tech companies. California has nothing except tax, tax, and tax.
Well, California was prosperous long before 'high tech' companies moved in.
I, as a Texan, will say: If not for the oil, Texas would have been in financial trouble long ago. We do not have an income tax, but our property and sales taxes are very high.
Oh, it has helped our Texas economy to have 'help' from south of the Border.
Well, California was prosperous long before 'high tech' companies moved in.
I, as a Texan, will say: If not for the oil, Texas would have been in financial trouble long ago. We do not have an income tax, but our property and sales taxes are very high.
Oh, it has helped our Texas economy to have 'help' from south of the Border.
Where do you live? in Odessa? Texas has AT&T, tons of aerospace , American airlines, Southwest Airlines, neiman marcus, Texas instruments , dell and every tech company you can think of has a huge presence in austin
California is a mess. Stop posting nonsense. If it were not for the high tech companies. California has nothing except tax, tax, and tax.
So if it's so terrible there for people and business, why aren't all those high-tech companies packing up and moving to Alabama or some other conservative bastion?
I know California is easy to bash, but it's the conservative Southern states that really have the most issues. Southern states have the highest crime rates, lowest upward mobility, highest rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases, worst schools, lowest education levels, crappy infrastructure, etc. Just because there might be lower taxes or cheaper housing in some cases hardly equates to a standard of life that is significantly better. In fact, it's usually the opposite.
Where do you live? in Odessa? Texas has AT&T, tons of aerospace , American airlines, Southwest Airlines, neiman marcus, Texas instruments , dell and every tech company you can think of has a huge presence in austin
True. All due to oil. Read. for instance, the book by Stanley Marcus (of Neiman-Marcus), whom discusses how Oil created the Texas economy, and Neiman's, back in the 1950s (Minding the Store).
Without Oil, Houston would not exist as it does. Argue as you will, it all goes back to black tea. There is also a book (I do not recall the name) that talks of how Houston became the home of the Texas space industry, due to Houston's wealth (and influence) due to its oil riches.
I know of what I speak. I live in Fort Worth, home of many oil pioneers, that made their wealth from oil, such as from Odessa (yet, choose not to live in that area). I grew up with the Wagners, I knew of the Hunts, knew the Rife's, and many others (due to my father's legal practice).
Heck, watch Dallas to get some idea of the influence oil had on the development of our state.
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