Toyota exit from Torrance inflames Texas/California rivalry

[pstokely]

"Fans of Texas say the state’s lower taxes, lower cost of living and light-handed regulatory system have created a booming economy and thousands of new jobs. People are flocking to the Lone Star State to find employment. According to the Census Bureau, those new arrivals included 64,000 emigrants from California in 2012 alone.
Texas boosters insist that the numbers are clear proof that people -- and businesses -- are fleeing the overbearing, big-government policies of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrat-dominated Legislature.
Unfortunately for proponents of that argument, the numbers also indicate that 43,000 people left Texas for California in 2012. As shares of each state’s population, 63,000 Californians and 43,000 Texans add up to the same insignificant number -- 0.0016%. And liberals could fairly ask: Were those 43,000 exiting Texans fleeing the appallingly low rates of healthcare coverage, the lack of investment in education, the wretched environmental policies and low wages in Republican-ruled Texas?
When Perry was running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, he boasted about how his state’s economy was a jobs machine, leaving it to his opponents to point out that the biggest share of those jobs were in government or in businesses that supplied the government -- not exactly pure fruits of an unencumbered free market.
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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-toyota-exit-20140501,0,699188.story#ixzz30TbyOkbW

[Indyfan53]

1. Never bought a Toyota...

And never will!

And screw Texas for letting West Fertilizer off the hook for killing those people in that factory explosion!

[GeorgeGist]

3. I bought one ...

but the service dept. was crooked so never again.

[upaloopa]

2. So what do we do when no one can afford

to buy what they make and their taxes are raised to cover the give away to the corporations?
If you want to tell me the quality of life in Texas is better than CA be my guest but misery loves company.

[FarCenter]

4. Jobs Aren't Leaving California For Texas, But People Are

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2013/02/12/jobs-arent-leaving-california-for-texas-but-people-are/

Who leads the charge out of California? Even though California’s richer residents face high tax rates, lower-income households are more likely to leave. From 2005 to 2011, California lost 158 people with household incomes under $20,000 for every 100 who arrived, and 165 for every 100 people with household incomes between $20,000 and $40,000. In contrast, just slightly more people with household incomes in the $100,000-$200,000 range left than came to California (103 out per 100 in), and California actually gained a hair more people in the $200,000+ range than it lost (99 out per 100 in). The rich aren’t leaving California, but the poor and the middle class are.