OT: Twitter and SpaceX HQs moving to Texas
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That's a few tax dollars leaving the state.
California is insane. 4th largest economy in the world and crazy as hell.
Their budget deficit is only $47 billion. . . . . .
California Will eventually break. So many people leaving. It will fold on itself once their tax base leaves
But yet Biden will give them our tax dollars to bail them out at the last minute.......again.
Tech sector and business friendly. Better than Houston or Dallas traffic. Tech people want to live there and that's all that matters
I just had an Aunt and Unlce and one of their kids and her family that moved from CA to Florida within the last year. I kid my uncle about paying his "exit" tax. It hasn't passed yet but it's being proposed. Not sure how you would enforce it but nonetheless.
You could not be more wrong.
Been hearing it my whole life, it just keeps growing. I expect it will continue to my whole life.
The problem is they bring their ****** politics with them
Exit tax only applies if you still have business interests in CA. So they could probably enforce it. But it wouldn’t affect most people leaving.
There’s quite a few tech companies already there. They make it very enticing to move there.
CA population growth just went negative last year.
Damn, he renamed a town Starbase, before he even moved! That's brilliant.**
@Boom Boom not all populations are equal when it comes to funding. The homeless (sorry de-housed) not only don't pay taxes, they're paid to be worthless, drug abusing, drains upon society in most progressive cities, i.e. seats of power, in California.
No. I don't have a research paper or an article from The Post Modern Anthropological Nomad to cite facts.
@Boom Boom not all populations are equal when it comes to funding. The homeless (sorry de-housed) not only don't pay taxes, they're paid to be worthless, drug abusing, drains upon society in most progressive cities, i.e. seats of power, in California.
No. I don't have a research paper or an article from The Post Modern Anthropological Nomad to cite facts.
love this guy - balls the size of the sun. don’t F with elon!
Mississippi routinely ranks as one of the most federally dependent states in the nation.
Yeah - it’s basically California. Elon’s Twitter rant is going on and on about some trans bill and homeless people in San Francisco. I don’t know if you’ve been to Austin lately, but……
It’s like I got fed up with the Mississippi heat and moved to Georgia.
Start in Denton and drive down 35E through Dallas and follow 35 through to the south side of San Antonio, then tell me the worst part of that drive.
I’ll save you the trouble. It’s Austin.
It's not growing in anything but budget deficit and the number of piles of ****
on the city streets.
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I wish Mississippi would be the benefactor of a huge tech HQ reloc. Its embarrassing that 2% of the state's GDP is from one hospital.
Come on over, Elon. We've got plenty of Tex-Mex to share. As far as the traffic goes, I just let somebody else drive. Seriously, though, I can pick worse things than putting more money into the Texas economy.
Feels weird when Mississippians get fired up another state fails or suffers. It's not sports. It's people's livelihoods. At any rate...maybe it'll be a net win for the country. I'll root for that.
Moving to Austin won’t get him away from homeless or liberals. State wise it will get him away from liberal policies but not in Austin itself. Homelessness was awful the last time we visited and that was before Covid. I assume it’s worse now like most cities.
Congrats Texas. Enjoy the new taxes.
Congrats Texas. Enjoy the new taxes.
been to LA SF seattle austin and houston all within the last year - there is a night/day difference between tx vs shtholes. austin is limited on their shtholeness
democrats get the govt they deserve
You’re probably right and I really can’t figure out why. What exactly is the draw to Texas? It does have beaches I guess but they are not good. It’s hot as hell. I understand the energy/oil draw to Texas and people involved in that field. But I don’t understand why tech people flock to Texas.
Here ya go:
“Domestic out-migration slowed in 2022-23, to a net domestic migration loss of 260,400 people.”
He’s getting away from the state politics. Your comparison isn’t even close. He may not be getting away from homeless people but he wouldn’t be able to do that in any city. There’s a big difference between the homeless and CA homeless. Plus TX state laws aren’t ridiculous like CA’s.
You do understand that, yes?
Since the 80's Austin has been home to numerous tech companies, and it's grown since then. Less of the crazy arse business restrictions that California has. And as mentioned, younger professionals like to live there for many reasons.
The reality is that no matter where you are, the bill always comes due and these cycles repeat themselves all over the place.
Places get popular, the grow, they get mismanaged by greedy people who fail to do upkeep while overspending on other stuff, things go south and the whole process starts over somewhere new.
we will see where Austin is in 50 years
Places get popular, the grow, they get mismanaged by greedy people who fail to do upkeep while overspending on other stuff, things go south and the whole process starts over somewhere new.
we will see where Austin is in 50 years
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