Toyota’s decision this week to leave Torrance, California, for the pro-business environs of Plano, Texas, sent shock waves through the Southern California community where Toyota employs more than five percent of the workforce. According to MSN Money, the move brings to mind Nissan’s decision eight years ago to move 1,300 jobs to the no-income tax state of Tennessee. A former Nissan executive recalled how the move equated to the company’s employees “getting a 20-percent raise.”According to the 2013 City of Torrance’s Comprehensive Annual Report, the city stands to lose more than $473 million in property taxes. Plus, just over a year ago, Moody’s downgraded Torrance’s credit rating, citing a weakened general fund and increasing public expenditures.
Toyota’s Torrance-based employees would benefit from doing their own calculation of how a move to Texas could affect their personal income. Financial planner and fellow Fobes.com columnist Robert W. Wood lays out a scenario that shows how some workers potentially could save more than a million dollars over a lifetime. The innovative automaker Tesla surely must be taking this into account when deciding which state offers the best opportunities for its new battery factory. Right now, California is in the running for the new plant, but so are several no-income tax states.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/rexsinquefield/2014/05/02/toyotas-tax-exodus-sends-shockwaves-through-job-impoverished-california/
Great, in some ways. Unfortunately those transplanted workers (California liberals) will bring their failed political beliefs with them to Texas. I can hear them now... blaming high taxes, big government, high unemployment, oppressive regulations......on the Reagan years.
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