Fledermaus
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And.... you got dusted by dragging out the California example, which always tends to frustrate more than validate libertarians. It might sound like a ****hole to you, and perhaps me as well in certain respects, but at this point, given the facts, it seems you are blaming regulation on companies failing that couldn't survive in the biggest American market, while being blessed with three major ports on the Pacific....lol... Sometimes businesses fail because they suck.
If you can't survive in an regulated environment, while other businesses can, it's not the regulation, it's you.
California has a whole lot going for it. Great weather (save for fire season and mudslides). A effing awesome coastline. Mountains aplenty. Big trees... I could go on forever... (hyperbole)
It is also over regulated, over taxed, double taxed in some cases, high cost, billions on a train to nowhere, freeing felons left and right, etc.
So ****hole it ain't. But there are ****ty aspects.
California rates at the bottom for being Business friendly.
I am on a cell so I can't link to all the articles stating this.
And the "sucking" businesses include Toyota, Peterbilt, Chevron, Albertsons, etc.