{"id":20602,"date":"2014-05-01T20:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20602"},"modified":"2014-05-01T20:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:01:48","slug":"toyota-votes-for-texas-over-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20602\/toyota-votes-for-texas-over-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Votes for Texas over California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota is moving its U.S. headquarters from Torrance, CA to Plano, TX. The move is estimated to generate a combined $140 million annually in local property and sales taxes for the Dallas suburb.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes on the heels of at least 250 other California-based companies heading to the Lone Star State, according the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/editorials\/20140430-editorial-toyota-move-is-big-win-for-north-texas.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Industry icons include Occidental Petroleum Corp. moving some of its facilities from Los Angeles to Houston; Raytheon Co. transferring aerospace units to McKinney from Southern California; and Trend Micro Inc. changing its corporate address from Silicon Valley to Irving.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, California Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dalebuss\/2014\/04\/30\/texas-v-california-this-aint-over-when-toyota-leaves\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Brown isn\u2019t concerned<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a few problems, we have lots of little burdens and regulations and taxes, but smart people figure out how to make it [in the state],\u201d he said at an event when asked about Toyota.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe smart people will opt for pro-business locations that don\u2019t inflict \u201clots of little burdens and regulations and taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota is moving its U.S. headquarters from Torrance, CA to Plano, TX. The move is estimated to generate a combined $140 million annually in local property and sales taxes for the Dallas suburb. The announcement comes on the heels of at least 250 other California-based companies heading to the Lone Star State, according the Dallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,19,2035,27,561,4494],"class_list":["post-20602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-economy","tag-jerry-brown","tag-jobs","tag-texas","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20616,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions\/20616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}