Adobe Systems, maker of a suite of graphics programs such as Adobe PDF, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, have announced that they are building a $100 million facility in either Salt Lake City or in nearby Utah County, Utah. The facility will bring thousands of jobs to Utah over the next few decades.
In May the Internet auction company ebay also announced a major new facility to be built in Salt Lake City. The $287 million data center will also bring hundreds of new jobs to the Bee Hive State.
Not to be forgotten, games maker Electronic Arts opened its new facility in July in Salt Lake City where around 100 employees are already at work.
These companies fleeing California’s horrid business climate are not alone. There has been a steady flow of businesses out of California for the better part of a decade. As California’s political morass worsens, as its budget woes increase, and as her politicians are proven incapable of making the hard budgetary decisions to take power from unions and chop unnecessarily lavish social programs, the state’s jobs are bleeding out. California is an a freefall the end of which is still unseen.
Buck Knives moved their factory from California to Post Falls, ID years ago. Socialist policies are inherently anti-business, and the only state more socialist than California might be Massachusetts. Maybe. But the chickens are coming home to roost for California right now. Unfortunately, the same ideology and the same mindset that control California now control this country. How many business are going to leave or shut down under more and more regulation and taxation?
Just how high do you want your unemployment, people?
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Having lived in either Salt Lake or Davis counties for the last 20+ years, I love hearing things like this. People like to criticize Utah for being too conservative but this just shows that we are business friendly and not a bad place to raise a family either. That's just my opinion.
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