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Our "Dear John" Letter to the State of California

• jellicle 15y ago
  Well, good riddance. > Don't worry, you could keep the futon, VCR player and Charoodles--but our 100+ employees and the state income taxes they pay each year would be coming along with us. Laughable. Sure, move the company out of state. And maybe 10 of your employees will move with you, if that many. And then the second time I ever hear of savings.com - this being the first - will be when they go out of business. Taxes are the cost of civilization. Anyone who takes advantage of the things that taxes buy, but whines about paying for them deserves ridicule and derision.
  • philwelch 15y ago
    Doesn't moving out of the state mean they're no longer taking advantage of the things that CA taxes buy?
  • nostromo 15y ago
    Did you read the article? They agree that taxes need to be collected, but the way CA went about doing it is making businesses like Savings.com hard to operate in the state. In effect, it's not their decision to stay or go, it's CA and Amazon's. They will be required to move all of their employees out of the state to stay in Amazon (and others') good graces -- one interpretation of that statement is what you assumed: that they will try and relocate everyone. Another more plausible interpretation of that is that the jobs will move but the people may or may not not.
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