Arnold should have listened to Buffett then California wouldn't be hock now for 15 billion.
CA is a perfect place for you, Suzie Q. The inmates are running the asylum and you're obviously right at home...
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Golden State Democrats just keep piling on the rules and regulations
Just keep it up, California Democrats. The Nevada economy thanks you for it.
"As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger crusades to make California more business friendly," The Associated Press reported Monday, "Democrat lawmakers passed an array of bills last week that would impose a variety of fees and higher costs on businesses operating in the Golden State."
The list of legislative meddling is mind-boggling in its expansiveness. There's an increase in the minimum wage; a measure to allow workers to sue employers for not protecting them against harassment from customers; a bill allowing employees to sue their bosses for myriad other offenses; new fees on chemical manufacturers; mandates for global warming labels on new cars sold; and a restriction on the state doing business with companies that outsource jobs.
And we haven't even mentioned the ban on teenagers using tanning salons.
All this will have a deleterious effect on the Golden State's business climate, of course. Yet Democrats blissfully whistle past the graveyard, dismissing any such concerns as the overwrought rhetoric of evil big business.
"Those corporate citizens continuing to cry foul should examine their checkbooks," said Art Torres, chairman of California's Democratic Party, "and see how much they're saving at the expense of the average man and woman out there."
Sure, Art, sure. Just remember that if it weren't for all the illegals streaming across the southern border, California would have actually experienced a decline in population recently. And at least a portion of those fleeing are business owners trying to get out from under the state's onerous tax and regulatory burden.
Nevada is only too happy to welcome them and the entrepreneurial spirit California Democrats so disdain.
Unfortunately for the Silver State, many of the above initiatives are unlikely to become law, given the new occupant of the governor's mansion in Sacramento.
`Should those bills complete the legislative process and come to the governor's desk, he'll have an opportunity to speak at that time," said a spokesman for Gov. Schwarzenegger. "But no one should doubt the governor's commitment to improving the state's business climate and increasing employment for Californians."
Which is in stark contrast to legislative Democrats, who seem intent on increasing employment opportunities for ... Nevadans and Oregonians and Arizonans ... |
