Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin

Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by brightball on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:13PM (#28793893)

I’ve long suspected that the Democratic obsession with federal policy is to try to reduce the appeal of other states where companies may want to move.

It’s often seemed like people in California would prefer that a manufacturing operations operate in Asia and come through their ports rather than operate in the middle/south US.

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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by 8note on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:44PM (#28794723)

Tax havens are bad for the places where economic activity actually happens. From California's perspective, I don't think it matters whether that haven is in Asia or the middle/south US. It's just as bad for California either way

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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by SavantIdiot on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:33PM (#28794101)

Naw, Cali just wants clean air and water, and manufacturing doesn't want to pay to not screw the planet. That's why companies pillage Asia: their environment is for sale to the lowest bidder. Capitalism without regulation, baby!

You're making the same conservative argument about wages: if you pay a living wage companies will flee. No, if a company can't pay a living wage, it shouldn't exist. Likewise, if a company can't manufacture products without destroying the environment, it shouldn't manufacture those products.

I'm just a conservative. A nature conservative.

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Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin by outside1234 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:27PM (#28794034)

I don't understand any of that - if anything - the opposite is true.

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