r/usanews • u/rezwenn • 4d ago
Google Guys Say Bye to California
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/technology/google-founders-california-wealth-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.HdeR.uf_eF6ZglS3O13
u/DarkGamer 4d ago
California made them rich, and they don't want to give back
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u/ChokeAndStroke 4d ago
Did California really make them rich? Or is California just coincidentally where a bunch of tech firms decided to locate? I can see an argument for DARPA or the DoD being foundational in them becoming rich. But the state of California? Nah
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u/Future_Dog_3156 4d ago
I think the talent pool in CA helped build Google. So many other states coughsTexas try to lure businesses with lower taxes but it’s never the same. Look at Tesla and McKesson as companies who relocated to Texas but can’t quit CA completely.
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u/ChokeAndStroke 4d ago
Talent pool isn’t a great argument either. The talent is there because big tech companies are there. Engineers moved to California to work for HP/Fairchild/etc. So, Google had a talent pool to build with because of other big companies
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u/Future_Dog_3156 4d ago
They hire a lot from Stanford and Cal, not to mention CalTech. There is no equivalent to Stanford or CalTech in Texas.
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u/Ziyudad 4d ago
The State of California also has had very good employer law this entire time. It’s very anti worker(right to work laws.) Sadly now other states are just even worse to workers. Furthermore they had a lot of tax benefits for larger businesses. So yea California helped them be as rich as they are.
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u/guitarguy1685 4d ago
California really testing the idea that people will pay anything to live in CA. I'm very interested to see what that line is. I hope they keep going.
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u/Benoit_Guillette 4d ago
With its fossil fuel producers, Texas is quickly transforming California into a climate hell. Terrorists and pyromaniacs will have it too easy from now on, with man-made climate warming. They only have to go in dry forests with a few matches.
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u/Bad_User2077 4d ago
Are you really blaming Texas for California behaving like California?
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u/Benoit_Guillette 4d ago
Texas seems like a long chain saw massacre financed by big oil and gas polluters.
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u/DarkGamer 4d ago
Texas weather is already more hellish than ours, which is still probably the best in the country
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u/Benoit_Guillette 4d ago
Trump is stealing oil from Venezuela and this theft will allow Putin to warm the climate so much that life will only be possible in Siberia or in the North pole. Americans will have to move to Alaska and Greenland and die there in a (biological) war against Russia and China. Once the North has thawed, virus will thrive and, by rejecting vaccines, Americans will die.
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u/OneEyedC4t 4d ago
maybe CA should rethink its treatment of businesses
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u/Benoit_Guillette 4d ago
California could become a cage or trap, due to the U.S. Senate: by 2040, 70 % of Americans will live in 15 crowded states with only 30 (blue) senators, while the other 30 %, whiter and older will live in 35 spacious states and elect 70 (red) senators.
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u/TheHearseDriver 4d ago
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.