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2014-05-20 Economy

California Wages Economic War With Sriracha Hot Sauce Factory

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Posted by Fred 2014-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 This is just sad. really.

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2014-05-20 02:09|| 2014-05-20 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Most disturbing is the proposed "exit tax" that the California legislature is attempting to put in place.

Back during the Cold War it was often remarked that one of the differences between us and them was that Americans could leave any time but the Soviets built walls to keep people from leaving.

California is now at that stage of leftist thought. Today they seek to keep people in with fines. Can bullets be that far off?

There is nothing, in the end, that the ruling elite and their publicly funded wannabes and footsoldiers will balk at to continue to parasitizing the private sector.

Posted by no mo uro 2014-05-20 05:24|| 2014-05-20 05:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Exit tax? Now that really is getting screwed both coming and going.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-20 07:09|| 2014-05-20 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 "Exit tax"?

Any businessman is going to see that as a likely cost of business, and it will act more akin to an "entry tax"..

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-05-20 08:06|| 2014-05-20 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Sacramento will not be happy until everyone is eating gov't rice and beans.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-20 08:14|| 2014-05-20 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 "Exit tax"? I made a joke about that last month, not thinking anybody'd be so stupid as to make up such a POS. I forgot about the DEMS in Cali-F-U legislature.
I'm sure Gov Moonbeam would be happy to sign such garbage because,remember people, they have a railroad to finish.
Hey, Rick, here's another business to take away.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-05-20 09:33|| 2014-05-20 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Relocate to Avery Island.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-20 10:40|| 2014-05-20 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Slavery. Pay to buy your way out, too. True Marxism in the US of A.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-05-20 12:51|| 2014-05-20 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Who was there first, the factory or the neighbors who complain about the smell? If the factory was there first you have to wonder why the city permitted residential development downwind of a smelly factory. If the neighbors were there first the question then becomes why did the city allow that factory to be built in a location where it was certain to stink up the neighborhood? Either way the city council members end up looking like a bunch of crooked morons. But that's par for the course in California.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-05-20 14:02|| 2014-05-20 14:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Texas is telling them to come on down, they'll fund a good site for them. Probably by the river in a place with prevailing winds that blow from the US into Mexico.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-05-20 15:11|| 2014-05-20 15:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Is an "exit" tax legal/constitutional? That's interstate, which should mean CA doesn't have the authority.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-05-20 15:11|| 2014-05-20 15:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Relocate to Avery Island.

I'm thinking somewhere near Jefferson Island would be better, you'd be able to drive to Temple and back without having to go on Highway 90, about which, the less said, the better.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-20 15:21|| 2014-05-20 15:21|| Front Page Top

#13 When has that ever stopped the Leftists, OS?

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-20 15:23|| 2014-05-20 15:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Exit tax is easy enough to defeat if its high enough - seen in a post elsewhere:

You simply start a second company, a new one that competes with your old one, doing the exact same thing. Then you double all the prices at the old company, and tell all your customers they can get the same services at half the price from the new company, especially since you let them hire all of your key employees.

Then you let a couple months go by, and file bankruptcy for the old company, [selling the brands etc to the new one] and you are left with a brand new company in a new state. No exit tax.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-05-20 15:38|| 2014-05-20 15:38|| Front Page Top

#15 I love it OS.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-05-20 16:21|| 2014-05-20 16:21|| Front Page Top

#16 OS, that's obvous. I'm sure there are more creative solutions, too. 8^)

Saw this same fight 35 years ago here in Taxachusetts. Pig farm had been there for decades. Next farmer sold land to developer. Developer build McMansions on the land. New home owners (left-wing yuppies) sued over the smell from their old neighbor.

Town meeting about the permitting went rather loudly against "WHITE COLLAR COMPUTER IDIOTS!!"

Much amusement for rational, conservative types. The pig farm is still there.

Posted by AlanC 2014-05-20 19:26|| 2014-05-20 19:26|| Front Page Top

#17 From what I understand it was 2 brothers and their wives that did the complaining. A total of 4 persons. The factory only emits the dubious chili smell 3 months out of the year.
On the other hand...The Miller Brewery, within a mile, emits a stronger odor 24/7 but these 4 complainers seem to have no trouble with the Miller odor from batch upon batch of brewing hops and yeast.

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2014-05-20 21:28|| 2014-05-20 21:28|| Front Page Top

#18 Will no one declare a just or righteous War of Annihilation agz Blatz Beer - WHY, GOD, WHY!?

lol.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-20 23:11|| 2014-05-20 23:11|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm tellin' y'all, the Bud-chelada heretics got what was coming to them.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-20 23:34|| 2014-05-20 23:34|| Front Page Top

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