Even the garbage guys are moving out of California. Waste Connections, a collector of Golden State trash, can no longer conduct business in California. It is considering a move to Texas.
Company chairman and CEO, Ron Mittelstaedt, cited over-regulation as the reason to move the Folsom-based headquarters to Austin or Houston.
“This is the worst state in the country to do business,” he said, adding that “there doesn’t seem to be any improvement on the horizon,” according to a piece in the Sacramento Bee.
Mittelstaedt went on to declare the state legislature “dysfunctional.” Assembly Bill 1178 stands in the legislature right now. Its passage would make it possible to export trash to other counties and cities. But the Senate Environmental Quality Democrats hold it “in Committee.” No help for Mittelstaedt in that, making a move out of California mandatory for the business to remain solvent.
State Assembly Republicans like Dan Logue try to disable the dysfunction the Democrats create in the legislature. They visited Rick Perry in Texas to discover the secrets of economic success in a state. Logue articulated a vision for California’s revival in the Texas model, only for hack Democrats to thumb their collective nose at the plan for prosperity.
Like a growing number of California companies headed south, Waste Connections may take its $3.91 billion business to Texas. California will need to fund its government waste in other ways and carry out the waste it creates in other ways as well.
The whole state is headed for the trash can and wasting away. The Democrats in Sacramento seem to like it like that.
Source:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/01/3876485/waste-connections-threatens-to.html