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The IRS is currently strapped for manpower/funding so they're as willing to negotiate as they've ever been. CA is a terrible place to do business (because of a

The IRS is currently strapped for manpower/funding so they're as willing to negotiate as they've ever been. CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) unless that business is tech or selling metaphorical pickaxes to the metaphorical miners. Your statements appear to be specifically calibrated to be totally false yet believable to people who know nothing about the subjects in question and I find this dishonest and disagreeable.

callmeal 8y ago
> CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag on what business is: exploiting labor and the environment.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  You don't have to be exploiting people or trashing the environment in order to have the costs associated with complying with laws specifically designed to prevent you from doing those things.
- Kalium 8y ago
  Given what CEQA enables, there need not be any form of exploitation involved for overhead to become expensive and painful.
gamblor956 8y ago
CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) unless that business is tech or selling metaphorical pickaxes to the metaphorical miners. Ah, that explains why California leads the nation in agriculture, manufacturing, entertainment, logistics, and service industries (except finance). Because it's such a terrible place to do business that it can't possibly be the 5th largest economy in the world (and in the top 10 largest economies in the world for the last 3 decades straight). Within several blocks of my office are hundreds of successful small businesses, none of which are tech companies. They're all doing fine. On my way to and from work, I pass hundreds more similar companies ranging from small mom-and-pops to multi-billion dollar multinationals, all so busy that they're hiring employees like crazy. But sure, go ahead and tell people that CA is a terrible place to do business. Reality says otherwise.

callmeal 8y ago

> CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag on what business is: exploiting labor and the environment.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
You don't have to be exploiting people or trashing the environment in order to have the costs associated with complying with laws specifically designed to prevent you from doing those things.
Kalium 8y ago
Given what CEQA enables, there need not be any form of exploitation involved for overhead to become expensive and painful.

gamblor956 8y ago

CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) unless that business is tech or selling metaphorical pickaxes to the metaphorical miners. Ah, that explains why California leads the nation in agriculture, manufacturing, entertainment, logistics, and service industries (except finance). Because it's such a terrible place to do business that it can't possibly be the 5th largest economy in the world (and in the top 10 largest economies in the world for the last 3 decades straight). Within several blocks of my office are hundreds of successful small businesses, none of which are tech companies. They're all doing fine. On my way to and from work, I pass hundreds more similar companies ranging from small mom-and-pops to multi-billion dollar multinationals, all so busy that they're hiring employees like crazy. But sure, go ahead and tell people that CA is a terrible place to do business. Reality says otherwise.