{"id":9399,"date":"2011-04-22T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9399"},"modified":"2011-04-22T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T18:08:06","slug":"the-trouble-with-california-in-one-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9399\/the-trouble-with-california-in-one-paragraph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with California in One Paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704570704576275051374356340.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">John Fund<\/a> gives an excellent distillation for the reasons California businesses are relocating <em>en masse<\/em> to Texas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andy Puzder, the CEO of Hardee&#8217;s Restaurants, was one of many witnesses to bemoan California&#8217;s hostile regulatory climate. He said it takes six months to two years to secure permits to build a new Carl&#8217;s Jr. restaurant in the Golden State, versus the six weeks it takes in Texas. California is also one of only three states that demands overtime pay after an eight-hour day, rather than after a 40-hour week. Such rules wreak havoc on flexible work schedules based on actual need. If there&#8217;s a line out the door at a Carl&#8217;s Jr. while employees are seen resting, it&#8217;s because they aren&#8217;t allowed to help: Break time is mandatory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, California policymakers are enjoying an extended break from economic reality by focusing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/ca-senate-passes-bill-mandating-gay-history-in-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">everything else<\/a> but job creation.<\/p>\n<p>If the trend of 4.7 businesses a week abandoning California continues, pretty soon the great weather will be the only reason to visit the once Golden State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fund gives an excellent distillation for the reasons California businesses are relocating en masse to Texas: Andy Puzder, the CEO of Hardee&#8217;s Restaurants, was one of many witnesses to bemoan California&#8217;s hostile regulatory climate. He said it takes six months to two years to secure permits to build a new Carl&#8217;s Jr. restaurant in [&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":[1592,299,19,27,1530,300,561],"class_list":["post-9399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-business","tag-california","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-john-fund","tag-regulation","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399","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=9399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9405,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions\/9405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}