Those of us who live near Toyota’s U.S. headquarters in Torrance, California, know exactly why the company is moving. Obviously, the firm’s accountants have tallied the man-hours lost to Torrance’s maddening all-red traffic signaling and decided it would be cheaper to operate in St. Moritz. However, Texas currently pays big cash to locate there, so Christmas came in April for Texas gov Rick Perry and conservative acolytes everywhere when vaunted Toyota picked the Dallas suburb of Plano as its new base of U.S. operations. The ensuing schadenfreude for supposedly overtaxed and overregulated La-La Land exploded like an infected appendix as many Americans crassly triumphed at the plight of 3000 other Americans whose jobs are leaving (plus 1600 Kentuckians whose jobs are also going to Texas). Suddenly, people who don’t live in California seemed to know what is wrong with California, and their unhinged opinionating made a thunderous online racket. READ MORE ››
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