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Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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Another one bites the dust
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Date: February 24, 2017 04:42PM
Didn't any one tell them Fairfax co. is California light?
Nestle, a large company known for its food and drink products, is tired of doing business in far-left California. They are packing their bags and heading thousands of miles away to Virginia.
Nestle USA made the official announcement that their headquarters will move from a Los Angeles suburb to Rosslyn, Virginia and is taking more than 1,200 jobs with it.
California is just an awful place to do business, and the Republican-led state legislature in Virginia put together together an incentive package that would make President Trump proud:
The $26-billion-a-year food conglomerate is discreet, of course, about its reasons, citing a desire to be closer to its core customers and other bland corporate pabulum. But the fact is, Nestle and its corporate brethren in California that actually make things are overtaxed and overregulated, and elected officials treat them not as honored members of the community but as rapacious pirates.
A Glendale official, for instance, blithely insisted Nestle’s departure was no big deal, but rather an “opportunity.” Some opportunity.
Though Nestle has offered jobs to their affected California employees in far-off places like Missouri, Ohio and Virginia, the city seems to think it will be able to fill their own Nestle job void by growing the high-tech job base.
“We just completed a study two weeks ago, which shows that we have more than 1,000 businesses in Glendale that are tech-focused,” said Darlene Sanchez, Glendale’s deputy director of community development. “We’d like to see some more co-working space that would cater to this burgeoning technology industry that has organically grown here.”
Meanwhile, Virginia pulled out all the stops to get Nestle to come, offering tax incentives worth some $16 million. Glendale says it didn’t even find out about the move until Wednesday. But there were signs it wanted to leave. Glendale did nothing, as far as we can tell.
Occidental Petroleum and Toyota have recently left California for Texas. The state has lost as much as $68 billion in capital to other states in recent years, due to their unfriendly anti-business laws.
Nestle, a large company known for its food and drink products, is tired of doing business in far-left California. They are packing their bags and heading thousands of miles away to Virginia.
Nestle USA made the official announcement that their headquarters will move from a Los Angeles suburb to Rosslyn, Virginia and is taking more than 1,200 jobs with it.
California is just an awful place to do business, and the Republican-led state legislature in Virginia put together together an incentive package that would make President Trump proud:
The $26-billion-a-year food conglomerate is discreet, of course, about its reasons, citing a desire to be closer to its core customers and other bland corporate pabulum. But the fact is, Nestle and its corporate brethren in California that actually make things are overtaxed and overregulated, and elected officials treat them not as honored members of the community but as rapacious pirates.
A Glendale official, for instance, blithely insisted Nestle’s departure was no big deal, but rather an “opportunity.” Some opportunity.
Though Nestle has offered jobs to their affected California employees in far-off places like Missouri, Ohio and Virginia, the city seems to think it will be able to fill their own Nestle job void by growing the high-tech job base.
“We just completed a study two weeks ago, which shows that we have more than 1,000 businesses in Glendale that are tech-focused,” said Darlene Sanchez, Glendale’s deputy director of community development. “We’d like to see some more co-working space that would cater to this burgeoning technology industry that has organically grown here.”
Meanwhile, Virginia pulled out all the stops to get Nestle to come, offering tax incentives worth some $16 million. Glendale says it didn’t even find out about the move until Wednesday. But there were signs it wanted to leave. Glendale did nothing, as far as we can tell.
Occidental Petroleum and Toyota have recently left California for Texas. The state has lost as much as $68 billion in capital to other states in recent years, due to their unfriendly anti-business laws.
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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all you need to know
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Date: February 24, 2017 04:43PM
Good. Bankrupt that liberal haven of idiots.
The state has lost as much as $68 billion in capital to other states in recent years, due to their unfriendly anti-business laws.
The state has lost as much as $68 billion in capital to other states in recent years, due to their unfriendly anti-business laws.
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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Friedrich Hayek
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Date: February 24, 2017 06:23PM
More corporate welfare by Virginia repubs. So much for free markets.
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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Dr. Memory
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Date: February 24, 2017 07:18PM
Nestle is moving some upper management positions to Rosslyn. If they're trying to get away from liberals by moving to Arlington, Virginia, we can only conclude the decision makers were sadly misinformed.
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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Hershey Hi-Way
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Date: February 24, 2017 08:27PM
Isn't Nestle a French company?
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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Aramark Exec
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Date: February 24, 2017 08:49PM
This just in from Aramark food services....
In the new Nestle facility there will be a food court...
... With an Arthur Treacher's! Fish and Chips for all Nestle employees!!
In the new Nestle facility there will be a food court...
... With an Arthur Treacher's! Fish and Chips for all Nestle employees!!
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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dirkdiggler985678
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Date: February 25, 2017 01:10PM
Swiss
Re: Fed up with Crazy Liberals, Nestle is coming here to Virginia
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former cali noob
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Date: February 25, 2017 01:24PM
I'm originally from NOVA and lived in CA for a couple years. While it's gorgeous there, and is blessed with natural beauty, the state is a poorly-run cesspool of crumbling infrastructure, aggressive liberalism, and expensive feel-good pet projects that only hurt businesses. It's not surprising that people are leaving. One party-rule leads to bad things.