California’s Economy Heading For Disaster As Companies Flee Socialist Insanity In Droves

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If you want to know what the left wants to do to the entire nation, look at California: unsustainably high taxes, soaring crime rates, filthy, dangerous cities full of insane and criminal homeless people — California is a leftist’s paradise. If Gavin Newsom is the Democrat nominee in 2024, as many are whispering now, and becomes the next president, that will be it for America. The companies that are fleeing California in droves now will flee all of America, and with good reason, as all they will be able to expect here will be robberies that go unprosecuted, confiscatory taxes, immense economic burdens due to climate fantasies, and worse.

“California’s Economy Could Be Heading For Disaster After Companies Fled In Droves,” by Arjun Singh, Daily Caller News Foundation, October 20, 2022:

California officials are sounding the alarm after recent statistics showed that fewer corporate and start-up activity in the state was leading to a decline in tax revenue, according to a report by Bloomberg News.

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This year, just nine companies based in the state had held initial public offerings (IPOs), which is when a company first lists shares for sale on the stock market – considered a milestone in its growth after strong activity and high valuation, the report revealed. In 2021, California – whose start-up ecosystem in ‘Silicon Valley’ is considered the most prodigious in the world – saw 81 companies conduct IPOs, making 2022 a year of a nine-fold decrease.

Moreover, the value of these IPOs was far lower than in the past, raising merely $177 million, or 2% of the total amount of money raised by U.S. companies that went public in 2022. By contrast, in 2021, California’s share of the revenue generated by IPOs was 39%, by far the largest of any state.

Over the last few years, many companies have departed from California for other states run by Republicans, with Texas being the top destination, gaining 44% of companies that left according to a report by BuildRemote, a business consultancy. These include high-profile departures such as that of electric carmaker Tesla, Inc., led by CEO Elon Musk, which moved its headquarters to Texas.

Musk and other entrepreneurs cite the state’s left-wing policies, enacted by a heavily Democratic state administration, of high taxes, permissive bail reform and drug-use laws, chronic homelessness and stringent COVID-19 regulations as reasons for leaving. Musk called the state the “land of overregulation, overlitigation and overtaxation” when describing his decision to leave….

California has some of the highest tax rates in the nation, with a 7.25% sales tax and a top income tax rate of 13.3%, both of which outrank all other states. The revenues it gathers far exceed the state’s regular expenditures, and it ran a budget surplus of $97.5 billion in 2021….

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Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Note to newsome. He who laughs first laughs last.

Andrew
Andrew
1 year ago

The Shine has gone off The Golden State.

Tom
Tom
1 year ago

Why stay where you are treated badly?

Hurtingangel
Hurtingangel
1 year ago

NYC could be next. Newsom is insane.

Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago
Reply to  Hurtingangel

He’s not insane….by San Francisco standards! I’m baffled by how anyone across the country would want someone from that area of the country, like Pelosi, near Washington.

Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago

Businesses were fleeing in the 90’s, and the democrats in Sacramento knew it, and were told. Retirees were also leaving for more affordable places to live.

The VIKING
The VIKING
1 year ago

Look at what we have here the Dickless wonder who says if I only had a brain.

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