$15/hr minimum wage

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(08-07-2018, 10:35 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Thanks for the insight, as I was unfamiliar with the author.  Though, with just a minute or ten's research time, it's not hard to see why Texas is a soft landing spot for businesses looking to exodus over taxation.  

Rick Perry was known to parrot the claim that Texas steals business from California, but I remember reading some articles that said that wasn't very accurate. At the time, taxes on businesses were actually lower in California than Texas and more start ups were forming in California.

Texas has more manufacturing of things like cars, but more tech is made in California. Texas throws out a lot of cash for businesses to move there, with the goal of having the economic growth outweigh the corporate welfare, but economists were finding that these businesses were not the ones leading growth in Texas and many were going to move to Texas regardless. California enacted a similar policy, but they gave out tax breaks instead of upfront money, requiring the businesses to actually do what they said they're going to do. California was finding that, even as they were leading the nation in jobs moving to other states, it was less than 1% of their total jobs

I think the interesting thing is that as you court more businesses reliant on highly educated employees, your politics begin to shift towards the left and the culture begins to change. This funny article noted the adoption of Californian culture in Texas:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/05/29/its-no-contest-california-really-is-better-than-texas/?utm_term=.a5e2e86b0c2a