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Old 02-13-2021, 05:03 PM   #487
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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0 View Post
So Elon Musk leaves Texas because of taxes and regulations (according to some here), and then he says...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/elon...arbon-tax.html

Elon Musk: ‘My top recommendation’ for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a carbon tax

...I’m so confused.
what's to be confused about?

Musk leaving CA is just fodder for the average person to hate California. It's no different than other auto makers going to another state, they have their own legitimate reasons but all you and I see are "these states are so much more business friendly than California" and not see what actually happens behind the scenes. At the end of the day, if Musk is going to start selling some of his personal gains from TSLA's stock price rise, he's better off in a state with no personal income tax. I have no problems with that if I made that much money in a year.

It's like all this recent talk about bringing chipmakers back into the US for manufacturing. Great... who the hell are going to man the factories? There aren't enough graduates with advance degrees in the US as-is, you think we can just grow people with education overnight?
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