Analysis: Toyota Could Bring $7.2 Billion To Texas Over Next Decade

Yea not like our high speed rail or the Trans Texas Corridor proposals. /sarcasim

The politicians in California government ARE the special interests. Their special interest is a social ideology that vilifies all business/money-making. The OTHER special interests want insider business dealings with no regulation or restraints. California was successful only when neither extreme held the upper hand.

No worries. They'll probably be fired and their jobs given to people who will work for less anyway.

@Steve65 I'd rather have an additional $10k per year in my pocket by avoiding state income tax. Actually, I'd probably pay an extra $10k to not be married.

@JD23 For some people marriage is not about the $$$. Lesbian and Gay folk have been fighting for universal (all 50 states) marriage equality for years. Something straights take for granted. As it stands now LGBT married couples taking what amounts to a mandatory transfer to Texas will lose many legal rights and protections. At no fault of their own.

@April Is LGBT a sandwich or something like land based game fishing?

@April It never ceases to flabbergast me that people who consider themselves Conservative could wage a jihad against *people who work but don't breed*. They are the exact polar opposite of the plague that's bankrupting us. Crazy christian crackers are killing the Right.

@April Kenmore, I believe you are reading this wrong. No one gives a shit about what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own space. What rubs most normal (straight) people the wrong way is this "in-your-face" acclamation that a society MUST accept deviant and unnatural behavior as normal. What's next? Will the government mandate that we accept pedophiles as normal? How about NAMBLA? That's "love" too. How about a man marrying his ewe or his dog? Hey, I'm a straight dude. Been married to the same gal a for 48 years. I love getting kinky with her! Have done so on many occasions. But I have no need to declare myself to the world the way that homosexuals do. This legality crap is just crap. Civil unions would do that trick without the drama, and have done so for decades. There's nothing happy about being homosexual. It is their ever-present need for respectability that drives their agenda for recognition as being different. They may be hard working, pay their taxes, but that isn't enough for them. They want to be recognized as being better, and have more rights than everyone else. Hence the intrusion on websites, like ttac, that have nothing to do with homosexuality.

@April kenmore, my comment is awaiting moderation. I think you are reading this all wrong.

Now ain't that just the greatest problem the world faces as of now..... At least in Texas, they can carry a decent pistol, to defend themselves when all those mean gay bashers come to Gitt'im...

@April HDC, It won't be a real long time, as societies are measured, before your notions about gays and mine about race are six feet under along with the rest of us. Then the kids will find something else to fight about.

@April Kenmore, to me these are non-issues. I don't judge anyone because of the color of their skin, or what their sexual preferences are. What I resent is having these issues constantly rubbed in my face! And now on ttac of all places! America being the melting pot that it is, there is room for everyone. But let's not give groups differential treatment because of their agenda. My dad was very dark complected being a Portuguese fisherman and was often mistaken on the US East Coast as a half-breed negro (which he was not). My mom was German and very, very fair complected with rich blonde hair. When they moved West to CA, the whole skin-color thing became a non-issue. And so was homosexuality, a non-issue. In school we knew who they were and we left them alone, and they left us jocks and surfers alone. No big deal. In ANY society there are bigots and racists. And there are laws to deal with them when they break the law. Pushing ANY agenda only results in alienating more people and causes resentment against those with the agenda. My #2 son and his wife own a couple of beauty shops in the San Diego, CA, area and many of their male stylists are homosexual. It never was an issue for anyone there, and it still isn't today. Still, why would anyone bring up the homosexual agenda on a site like ttac? I've noticed intrusions on other sites, money sites, as well.

@April HDC, She just brought it up, meekly and only once, because it's an unarguable consequence of Toyota employees being forced to move to TX. And she didn't identify herself as gay; she could be merely empathetic to gays as I am. Because since the 3rd grade I felt *funny* around girls and since the 6th grade all I've wanted to do was dive down cleavages. I am a roaring hetero. But what if someone is wired the other way, and I do believe it is purely an involuntary neuro-hormonal thing, and they have to spend an entire lifetime hiding that kind of passion? No matter how exemplary a citizen they may otherwise be?

Right. Because it's people on "the left" who see things like the water in a river actually making it to the ocean as "wasteful".

@Steve65 Absolutely! The ocean doesn't need any more water, especially the unsalted variety that's ideal for swimming pools and toilets. The Oceans get 3/4 of all the rainfall, let them be satisfied with that. If you think that's crazy, you're probably a left brain righty; we lefties are the only ones in our right minds.

Parasites thrive on the fattest hosts thelaine. They'll make California into a sunny Detroit. Give them time.

thelaine, I was born in Huntington Beach, CA. Went back there recently, and it is a dump! It resembles a Mexican Barrio these days where the Community Reinvestment Act has not dared to tread. My parental home in Palos Verde where one of my brothers now lives, is worth over a million bucks today, but it is still a house that was built in 1959, when my parents bought it. And the rest of the neighborhood there is just as old, and it shows. My #2 son lives in San Diego, in the Clairemont suburb, on Waco. A house built in 1953 and since upgraded and updated to where it is worth at least $350,000 these days. That's a far cry from the $12,500 his wife's parents paid for it in 1953. My grandson and his wife live in Fallbrook, CA, in the house given to his wife by her parents. There's no way he could afford to live there on GS-9 pay and his wife's Deputy Sheriff's pay, if they had to pay the taxes on that house. Her parents still do that although they live in a Motorhome and travel all over America, Canada and Mexico, all year long. They all have one thing in common. Stifling taxes, exorbitant cost of living, and the desire to leave bankrupt California for anywhere else but California. Quite a number of people have already cashed out of California, and left the state. This has been exceedingly good for the real estate business in adjoining states. Even for us in New Mexico, and in Texas.

@Lorenzo Pools are nicer with salt water....

California will be fine, just like the earth will. The people living there may or may not, but it's not like the sunshine cares.

@highdesertcat The real etate bonanza you are referring to, is at the root of lots of Calis dysfunctionalities. It has to a large extent severed almost all correlation between who works, and who has. randomly buying a shoddily slapped together shack that wouldn't last a single winter in the Dakotas back in the 50s, have ever since resulted in wealth gains far beyond what most people could amass by saving. So, you end up with a caste of people who's only goal is to preserve the only way they know how to stay ahead of the other Joneses, which is to try to maximize the advantage of being a "home owner." tax the heck out of work? Why not? We don't do that anyway, but instead just live off of home appreciation. Support any amount of money printing for Goldman Sachs? Again, heck yeah, as long as some of it finds it way into lower mortgage rates, so people can bid up the price of my shack.... Create zoning laws to make sure noone else gets to build anything nice enough to compete with my shack in other neighborhoods? heck yeah, it's called "preserving the communities." Ban all productive work within 30 miles of me, since factories and stuff are smelly, and working people don't look posh enough to drive up my home price? Of course! They don't need to work. Much better if they're on welfare, so I can feel good about being all liberal and taking care of them.... And on and on it goes. Unless someone with an above pea sized brain manages to turn the Fed around, the idiocy will probably continue to go on for awhile, but when it crashes, it is incredibly far from where homes are priced today, to where they can be supported by earned income. Like, an 80% drop or something.... The weather is nice, and the nature is stunning (Huntington Beach ain't that bad. Go to Gallup....), so there will always be takers. But the complete disconnect between the short term interest of the landed-by-historic-accident and those needed to produce something, does not bode well for Cali's near and intermediate future.

Stuki, the Californians cashing out and moving out of state have been a boon for real estate in Nevada, Arizona, and even New Mexico and West Texas. El Paso, TX, is doing a booming business in building new houses of pretty decent quality and price. No housing slump here. We bought a house in West El Paso for my daughter when she moved here from LA. At $172K, 4600 sq ft, all white brick, three car garage, downright palacial! I live in Southcentral New Mexico and we have seen a fair share of people from California move to this area as well. Even sold a couple of homes to them Californians. I'm sure there are people who move to CA every single day for all sorts of reasons, but for CA natives like myself, things have changed. Where I remember the Huntington Beach of my youth, I now see the Barrio of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez in its place and that makes the wide-open spaces of Gallup seem like the Garden of Eden.