dentists, home air conditioner installers, carpet stores, and restaurants can not
even begin to contribute enough to maintain the suction of taxes the cali gvt needs
Companies Fleeing California
For Utah Over Confiscatory Tax RateBy Warner Todd Huston - Aug 25th, 2010 .
(Warner Todd Huston/The Union Label) - Computer software giant Adobe, computer game monster EA Games,
and Internet auction king ebay are
abandoning California to set up shop in Utah. Why? California's horrid
business climate and high taxes.
Adobe Systems, maker of a suite of graphics programs such as Adobe PDF, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign,
have announced that they are
building a $100 million facility in either Salt Lake City or in nearby Utah County,
Utah. The facility
will bring thousands of jobs to Utah over the next few decades.
In May the Internet auction company
ebay also announced a major new facility to be built in Salt Lake City.
The
$287 million data center will also bring hundreds of new jobs to the Bee Hive State.
Not to be forgotten, games maker Electronic Arts opened its new facility in July in Salt Lake City where around
100 employees are already at work.
These
companies fleeing California's horrid business climate are not alone. There has been a steady flow
of businesses out of California for the better part of a decade. As California's political morass worsens, as its budget
woes increase, and as her politicians are proven incapable of making the hard budgetary decisions to take power
from unions and chop unnecessarily lavish social programs,
the state's jobs are bleeding out. California is
an a freefall the end of which is still unseen.
Here is a
partial list of the large and medium-sized companies that have either moved parts of their business
or have left the "land of milk and honey" for brighter prospects altogether:
Abraxis Health, Adobr Systems, Inc. Alza Corp., American AVK, American Racing, Apple Computer Audix Corporation,
Apria Healthcare Group, Assurant Inc., Barefoot Motors Bazz Houston Co., Beckman Coulter, Bild Industries Inc.,
Bill Miller Engineering, Ltd. BMC Select , BPI Labs, Buck Knives, CalPortland Cement California Casualty Group,
CalStar Products Inc., Checks To-Go, Chivaroli & Associates CoreSite, A Carlyle Company, Creel Printing ,
Dassault Falcon DaVita Inc. , Denny's Corp., Digital Domain, Ditech DuPont Fabros Technology, ebay, Inc.,
EDMO Distributors, Inc. Edwards Lifesciences, Electronic Arts, Inc., EMRISE Corp., Facebook FallLine Corporation,
Fidelity National Financial, First American Corp., Fluor Corp. Foxconn Electronics, Fuel System Solutions,
Gregg Industries, Hewlett-Packard Hilton Hotels Corp., Hino Motor Manufacturing USA, Intel Corporation,
Intuit of Mountain View J.C. Penney , Kimmie Candy Co., Klaussner Home Furnishings,
Knight Protective Industries Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc., LCF Enterprises, Lennox Hearth Products Inc.,
Lyn-Tron, Inc. Mariah Power, Maxwell America, Miasol, MotorVac Technologies Nissan North America,
Northrop Grumman, One2Believe, Patmont Motor Werks, Inc. Paragon Relocation Resources, Pixel Magic,
Plastic Model Engineering, Inc. Precor, Premier Inc., Pro Cal of South Gate, Race Track Chaplaincy of Amer.,
Red Truck Fire & Safety Co. SAIC, Scale Computing, Schott Solar Inc., SimpleTech Smiley Industries, Solaicx,
SolarWorld, Special Devices Inc. StarKist , Stasis Engineering, Stata Corp., Tapmatic Teledesic,
Telmar Network Technology Inc., Terremark, Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Toyota, True Games Interactive Inc.,
TTM Technologies, Understand.com US Press shifted, USAA Insurance, Yahoo. And many more
It should be noted that Utah is a right-to-work state.
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