Amazingly - something liberal politicians seem unable to understand - when you reward certain behaviors, you get more of them, and when you penalize other behaviors, you get less of them.
That applies to many things, of course. And it's always an amazing thing to see when liberals choose to reward a behavior, like, say, illegal immigration, and then act shocked - shocked to find their communities overrun by illegal immigrants. The same rule, of course, applies to businesses. California has become an increasingly hostile environment for business over the last decade or two, while another, larger state is openly trying to recruit businesses by advertising low taxes, low regulations, and low real estate prices. That state is Texas, and now another major corporation has decided to bail on California and move to the friendlier environs of the Lone Star State.
A real estate giant has joined the growing list of companies abandoning California and heading to Texas
Realtor.com, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, announced it is relocating its headquarters from Santa Clara to Austin.
The real estate listing site's move comes after companies such as SpaceX, Chevron and Oracle have all made the move from the Golden State
Texas has waged a charm offensive on companies touting its low taxes and limited regulation.
Texas, we should note, is booming. The formerly Golden State? Not so much. That's sad, actually, because California really has a lot going for it, if you can exclude the government. I've spent quite a bit of time there, in fact on two different occasions, for over a year, I maintained an apartment while working there - a year and a half in Santa Clarita and a year in Silicon Valley. California's a beautiful place. The climate is salubrious (the winters, I will say, are much milder than Alaska's) and if you are suffering from the heat inland, as I did my first summer in Santa Clarita, you can drive to the beach and realize a 30-degree drop in temperature. There is a wide range of landscapes, from deserts to beaches to farmland to mountains.
California's just a lovely place. But boy, have the Democrat super-majority in Sacramento really messed it up. And businesses will keep leaving until things are set right.
The Lone Star State has also established new business courts to tackle corporate disputes, a factor that many companies find attractive about incorporating in Delaware
Realtor.com CEO Damian Eales said he was also attracted by Texas' expanding housing stock, low cost of living and growing talent pool off workers.
'There is no better place for us to call home,' Eales said in a statement.
'Over the coming years we are committed to growing our presence by hiring great local talent and by bringing new recruits to Texas' he added.
Is it really taking this long for this message to sink into California Democrats?
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Things may be changing. The recent wildfires, most especially the destruction wrought on Pacific Palisades - not to mention the impeccably coiffed Governor Newsom's insistence that the property owners there can't restore their homes as they were - may have some voters looking at alternatives. That's a hopeful note, one it would be great to see come through. I have friends and colleagues in California, good, solid conservative people who love their home and would like to turn it around.
In the meantime, as long as the Democrat super-majority remains in Sacramento, California will keep losing employers.
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