California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds

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Re: California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds

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Post by strbean » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

DevKoala wrote: post #337

strbean wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reviewing them all, it seems the only remotely valid points where "LA permit approval is slow" and "California agriculture uses a lot of water"...

What about the tax on owning business items in LA? Does that sound fair? Also, don’t you think it is insane that at a time when we are in need of jobs for an increasing population, job creation is stopped due to bureaucracy? I love California, I am staying to create businesses too. However, there is way too much complacency among residents regarding the situation at which we have arrived due to our policies. These po…

> What about the tax on owning business items in LA? Does that sound fair?

From other comments, it sounds like this only applies to items exceeding some large dollar value. I'm all for increasing the tax base, especially with Prop 13 strangling our budget for things like education.

> Also, don’t you think it is insane that at a time when we are in need of jobs for an increasing population, job creation is stopped due to bureaucracy?

This certainly sucks, especially with how often regulation is abused purely to create barriers to entry and solidify the positions of entrenched players. This is a problem pretty much everywhere but Somalia though, so I'm not hugely moved by one particular instance of it in one county. We certainly have lessons to learn in this regard in California though.

Re: California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds

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Post by strbean » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

robomartin wrote: post #360

strbean wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And then there's the hundred billion dollar high speed train to nowhere that isn't even a high speed train and (if I remember correctly) might not even have ten miles of track built. The planned max speed for CAHSR is 220 mph, which is faster than TGV or Shinkansen, and well beyond the threshold for "high speed". Also, nowhere? The initial route is from SJ to Burbank. How is that nowhere? This is absurd.

You are confusing marketing materials with reality. The planned speed is what they used to sell it to voters. Actual speed is ridiculous due to the issues the train would run into (if it is every finished) in every town or region it crosses. There are parts where it probably won't be allowed to go much faster than 50 mph. So, yeah, nice selling point, but, no, fake news. Same with the San Jose to Burbank story. Forgi…

This is a gish gallop. It won't happen, and if it does, it won't work, and if it does, it won't work well enough, and if it does, nobody will want it, and if they do, it will be too expensive.

Somehow the rest of the developed world made them work, and they form a key part of the infrastructure. But, as with everything else that works well in the rest of the developed world, "It wouldn't work here because America is so special."

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