The Collapse of Seattle - Another Dem City Destroyed

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

I would argue that population growth - of any city - is related more to the availability of jobs that the availability of handouts.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dell Computer are companies that contributed to the growth of their cities/regions via innovation and creating jobs. They didn't just locate where they did because of population, but a trained, skilled workforce certainly helps. Each of these places has a world class research university.

But the fact is, you can track the growth of Austin with the growth of Dell, and of Silicon Valley with Intel, Google, Apple, etc. In that sense, these companies were the CAUSE of the growth, not just businesses reacting to opportunities.

Very well thought out. How do you explain Bowing so many parts of their business to more tax-friendly states?

And once again, where there is liberal government, the homeless will congregate to suck up as many tax dollars as they can.

[gil]

I would argue that population growth - of any city - is related more to the availability of jobs that the availability of handouts.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dell Computer are companies that contributed to the growth of their cities/regions via innovation and creating jobs. They didn't just locate where they did because of population, but a trained, skilled workforce certainly helps. Each of these places has a world class research university.

But the fact is, you can track the growth of Austin with the growth of Dell, and of Silicon Valley with Intel, Google, Apple, etc. In that sense, these companies were the CAUSE of the growth, not just businesses reacting to opportunities.

Very well thought out. How do you explain Bowing so many parts of their business to more tax-friendly states?

And once again, where there is liberal government, the homeless will congregate to suck up as many tax dollars as they can.

Thank you. I've always thought that Boeing moved production to places like Kansas and South Carolina for cheaper, non-union labor. HQ moved to Illinois (certainly not a low tax state), then to Virginia (about average, from what I can tell).

Boeing's employment in Washington went up 10% last year.