Ebay, Adobe, EA Games, Many Others Leaving California For Utah Over Confiscatory Tax Rate
August 25, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Business, California, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Politicians, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
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 |
| Miasolé, 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 |
Details on these moves can be seen HERE.
It should be noted that Utah is a right-to-work state.
Recently, Fox Business Channel also discussed this issue:
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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