California businesses are leaving the Golden State at a record-setting pace[on target to be five times the record set in 2009.] And here goes another one!
The latest company to split, number #129, is a rather surprising and damning testimony to the lack of faith in Democrat governor Jerry Brown’s leadership: Silicon Valley stalwart Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems, is starting up ……in…. Colorado:
Sun Microsystems co-founder and ex-CEO Scott McNealy has a new startup, WayIn LLC. Silicon Valley Biz Blog reported that:
”Thanks to [McNealy’s] Twitter feed, we know the company [will] be headquartered in Colorado. Wait, what? Colorado? What happened to Silicon Valley?” McNealy “explained his reasoning, tweeting a Top 10 Reasons it’s Better to do a Startup in Colorado than California:
10. Rocky Mountain powder beats Tahoe bunny slopes.
9. 11% income tax in CA vs. a 4.63% flat rate in CO
8. CO is a safer distance from Sacramento (but it is closer to DC…)
7. $1.5 million buys a dump in Silicon Valley, a ranch in CO.
6. In CO, the water is from CO. In CA, the water is from CO.
5. In CO, a traffic jam still moves, but the earth does not.
4. From CO, the redeye to New York is only half as bad.
3. In CO, I can hit my drives 300+ yards again
2. LoDo, CO has better views than Mountain View, CA [LoDo stands for Denver’s Lower Downtown]
1. WayIn is HQ’d in CO, home of our CEO @TomJessiman and a great team.”Obviously, he’s not being entirely serious with this list, but there’s some legitimate gripes in there as well.” Source: Silicon Valley BizBlog June 16, 2011 story, “Sun founder Scott McNealy shuns Silicon Valley for startup.”
[…]“WayIn is not alone in avoiding CA. Sacramento, are you listening? http://t.co/XkIhoEJ”
“Cost of living in CA just got higher. Congrats to Sacramento for keeping the dream alive…somewhere else. http://t.co/C4NuZ6L”
Hmmmm… Wow! I can think of a whole bunch of things that would stall the ideology of Liberal California if all the ‘Big Bad Capitalists’ move out…. However I am not sure if it is worse than the freak show that has been playing out there for years…. you reap what you sow…
I will be really, really angry if sometime in the future we have to bail out California…
This is so eerily reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged, where companies started relocating into Colorado. I wonder how long before a government edict comes down prohibiting companies from moving away from the state they’ve been located in. Oh, I forgot. It’s happened already with the NLRB and their fight against Boeing. How many other such closely related instances must happen before more people start saying, “You know, Ms. Rand might have had a point there.”
This is outrageous, who will support the illegal alien welfare, education, medical, and incarceration costs if the wealthy Liberals who ushered in and supported these worthy projects all move to CO. These idealists need to take responsibility for their Social Justice Dreams or do they plan to ruin CO as well.
Watch out CO, they will sell you down river for their dreams of Social Justice and then they will move to Idaho or Montana. Count the silverware each night. LOL
@Skookum:
Well, don’t count on our uber-liberal Congresswoman, Skookum.
Laura Richardson has abandoned properties all over CA (well before the housing bust, I might add).
She is finally being investigated by a Congressional ethics committee.
Well overdo.
Yet she talks the talk nonstop.
And….
@johngalt:
How could you know this?
Wait a minute.
It’s coming to me.
Who is John Galt?
Before the people of CO. cheer the move of these companies to CO. remember with the companys come the same prog twits that ruined CA.
I think what is ruin CA, is the OPEN BORDER THEY KEEP OPEN,
AND It’s ruin other southern states too.
@Skookum: There used to be a Bumper Sticker in Colorado whuch advised:
DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!
And another, which said:
“HONK IF GARY HART OWES YOU MONEY!”
Does anyone out there remember jerry brown during his first term as the “gov” ? His administration was a flop/0..The only thing he brought to the office this time was a bald head and a political brain still in the ’60’s. Unlike “bill”, jerry inhaled a lot of the grass grown in Ca. An MRI with contrast of the brain should have been done on him before the election, not now. Inflation and corporate relocations/exits were high in brown’admin. Mark Twain ..”never under estimate the stupidity of the American people”
Californians started moving into WA State way back in the 1980s. Housing went through the roof. And unfortunately, it is now almost impossible elect a GOP, let alone a conservative, in our state. The only GOP you will see comes from E WA now except for one GOP rep. on the westside, Dave Reichart, from the Bellevue area. He is the guy whose perservance caught the Green River Killer. He has a good reputation so being a GOP doesn’t hurt him.
Getting Californians to move into your state can only hurt. They bring their liberalism with them.