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U-Haul Index: Californians are hustling to Texas

Nov. 23, 2012 11:05am Meredith Jessup

The U-Haul Index is a study of where Americans are moving and how much they’re paying to move there. For example, renting a 20-foot truck from San Francisco to San Antonio costs an estimated $1,693, but going in the opposite direction costs only $983 for the same truck. In other words, there’s much more demand heading from San Francisco than to San Francisco.

Since first being publicized by economist Mark Perry, the U-Haul Index has become one of the best indicators of a state’s economic health and attractiveness to business. This year, the numbers continue to look promising for continuing growth in Texas:

According to the Tax Foundation, “Tax Freedom Day” arrives earlier in Texas than it does in California, due to its zero individual and corporate income tax and a lower sales tax. Put together, Texas’ state and local tax burden is less than eight percent of income, well below the national average of nearly 10 percent, while California’s is almost 12 percent.

This enormous disparity puts California the 48th out of the 50 states in the foundation’s overall business tax climate index, while Texas ranks ninth.

It isn’t all about taxes, however. Its regulatory environment and yawning fiscal deficits are chasing companies away to more favorable locales. Part is the state’s determined efforts to increase still further its tax burden on high income earners — now an astounding 13 percent — along with its implementation of policies favored by the Obama administration in Washington.

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Comments (34)

daisy k
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:28am
Don’t mess with Texas and don’t mess up our state, we can smell a liberal far away. We love our state. God Bless Texas. Even if it means to not hired those liberals. Economy is booming here. I pray to keep those liberals away.

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- sibomama
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 12:05pm
  The conservatives in California have had it! We know all about hard work and freeloaders wanting to reach in our pockets. You are right…the good ones will move to Texas and stay.
  
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tharpdevenport
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:30am
Glenn needs to make a correction; he should start saying,

“By the way, CONSERVATIVES: have I mentioned ‘Move to Texas’? Oh, and liberals, go to Hell, I mean Virginia!”

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taintso
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 11:18am
People should be worried, those Californians want every service imaginable from the State they just don’t want to pay for it, and leave when the bill comes due. The should be exiled as Socialist.

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taintso
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 3:06am
California doesn’t need to worry, Mexico has plenty of replacements.

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DennisMetz
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 7:40pm
this is one of the biggest reasons Texas should become a country. It would provide a decent nation for decent companies and workers to build a taxbase and the no loads that did not want to work could move to new orleans or memphis or something. then Texas as a nation could pass laws to limit the number of children can have and get tax deductions for them and they would not be sending money to a hateful nation like egypt and the other trash that burn the star and stripes

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agswin
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:41pm
Not to worry. In the early 1980′s, Michigan residents streamed into our state. After 6 months they discovered that there was no welfare, all you heard on talk radio or in letters to the editor were comments on “how we did it back in Michigan.” Finally, we Texans said if it was so great in Michigan, what don’t you move back. Many did.

Soon those Californians will be saying the same thing. Our advice is you can be very successful if you move to Texas, but you will have to work. There is still no welfare.

Perhaps you can get one of those cheap U-Haul’s back to California, if you don’t want to work.

Welcome to Texas but get to work.

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- Cosmos102
  Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:33pm
  I’m wondering if those Californians aren’t escaping their Ca Gov who will give in to every demand made through Obamacare.
  
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demsrtraitors
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:50am
The last thing Texas needs are liberals , especially white traitorous liberals. They screwed up California, and they can’t fix it so now they are going to a Conservative state. Stay out of Texas! They have enough trash, mexicans and liberals , ESPECIALLY IN Austin.. Do not go there if you are White, Conservative, Military or a Christian. You’re not wanted. Just warning you.

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- Cosmos102
  Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:03pm
  New Jersey and New Yorkers have moved to North Carolina in droves over the past 5 years and we finally elected the first Republican Gov in 20 years along with a veto proof GOP majority in our Legislature. Just saying…
  
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Diane TX
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:28am
There are already liberal enclaves in Texas. Austin is the Capital of Texas, and is filled with “far-lefties”. Another hot spot is Houston, TX. This where a Sheila Jackson Lee was elected. Also, the Dallas/Forth Worth area, (they might as well be one City, since they’re so merged, is another enclave.

The good news is that there is still a great deal of Texas that remains Commie free. I live in one of those areas. My neighborhood was pro-Romney in the past election, and came out for him in large numbers.

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Joel Knows
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:59am
There goes the neighborhood. I live in Washington state at the end of the Jimmy Carter fiasco. Californians started moving up there and the whole place went down the tubes. They loved the way it was, but then had to turn it into a new California and killed what was good about it off. I seem to remember they did the same thing to Colorado.

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tharpdevenport
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:40pm
I’m going to go ahead and give a Genn Beck “WARNING! WARNING!”:

Exactly WHAT is a GOOD thing about a bunch of left-wing hippie Obamaphone-voting nuts jobs moving to Texas in DROVES, where they can then vote for the neck despotic Democrat candidate, and them give all of Texas’ delegates to him or her?

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- sibomama
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 12:07pm
  The people who are not happy with California are not the liberals! It’s people like us, who are sick and tired of this insane state who want to get out. The liberals are just fine here.
  
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mr. parker
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 6:17pm
When you CA people leave and cross into Mohave County, just keep moving on I-40 and don’t stop at the Grand Canyon- you can come back to visit sometime, Flagstaff is already infested with liberals.
A test of marksmanship is to hit those stupid pennants off the reclining bicycles of those Birkenstock wearing old useless hippies.

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dopie joe
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 5:13pm
That is what’s wrong with Texas now.Back in the late 70′s and early 80′s there was a big migration of people from Michigan and New York.There used to be a sign on the side of the old road from Ft. Worth to Grapevine that said “Would the last person who leaves Michigan please turn out the lights”. Since then Texas has been on a downward spiral ever since,and that is putting it politely.It makes me cringe to think about what it will be like in another 20 years.Maybe I won’t last that long,but if I do I will probably be in jail for ripping someone’s head off because the older I get the less tolerant I am becoming.
A native Texan of 60 years.

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RCAFRAF
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:32am
I’m a former Californian and conservative. I left California because it was becoming a welfare state. Voted against Gov. Brown back then. I hope those that continue to leave are doing so for the same reasons. Come to Texas and get a taste of freedom, independence ans self-reliance.

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DangerDawg
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 5:20am
They ruined Washington State. It wasn’t always “Blue” but it is now. Good luck Texas..

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- safetharbor
  Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:09pm
  CALIFORNIFICATION. Just ask Oregon and Washington. There should be a law that if you’ve lived in CA for more than 5 years you are required to stay there forever.
  
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RAMJR
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 12:42am
I think there should be a 4 year move on any Liberal who voted for Obama, to be allowed to move to ANY red state. Much like many illegals and some new ‘citizens’, they bring their mindset and beliefs with them (and entitlement) to a country that they want the freedoms and rights, but also want what their country did to make them a socialistic dictatorship that rewards crime and criminals, and punishes legal law abiding citizens. I would also outlaw pundits, media, teachers, union workers, celebrities and politicians from being able to destroy other states by their ignorance, arrogance and lies. I also believe more cities are going to change city laws, in making it mandatory for home owners to have and trained with weapons. That would take care of a lot of Liberal mindsets coming to Conservative cities and states.

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Distress
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 10:28pm
Just great! I was planning to go to Texas when things go south, but now their going to ruin it too. I don’t want to sound crazy, but why does it seem like they need to be contained or eradicated to control their disastrous spread.

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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:30am
  They’ve already wrecked Nevada. And Massachusetts has wrecked New Hampshire.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:22pm
  what! New Hampshire passed an income tax ban, i think its going good there so far.
  
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environmentalandawake
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 6:08pm
Go to North East Oregon and ask them folk If you would like to have these Californians moving to Texas.

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starcross1
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 5:46pm
Californios are by and large similar to termites and fire ants. They breed and breed and breed and sooner or later reach a critical mass and are forced to swarm, migrate to areas of better potential. They exhibit feeding-breeding concerns only with no thought for the fouled and decimated areas that they just left. Big liberal money flowing unhampered into areas of stable, normal homes and populations, quickly drive the property values thru the roof. Taxes are raised to the point that the original residents can no longer live in their own homes due to tax explosions. Example Seattle Puuget sound area, Santa Fe NM. All of Arizona, and now Texas, mountains of Colorado. By the time you blink, modest houses in the 40-60K price ranges will suddenly become $300.000 infested with west coast liberals and their politics. Many will scoff and deride for my opinion–however–I have seen it, I have lived it. No belief? –check out the first mass mass migratinfrom Simi Silicon valley, when the techs went down. JUST MY OPINION, OF COURSE, but TEXAS beware, they’re ‘comin.

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- blackyb
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 8:23pm
  Those houses selling for 250 thousand dollars all over the country were probably built for 30 thousand, if that. Most of that real estate ‘boom’ is nothing but greedy people who are suckering people into buying homes they cannot afford, then taking them back. I think all of that should be stopped.
  
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- 65Mustang
  Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:48pm
  STARCROSS1: never been to California and have no desire to ever be there…I believe everything you posted. What I would like to know is, will there ever be a limit to the number of children single mothers, illegals and even married mothers can have if my tax dollars has to pay for them? I’m tired of breeders.
  
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lwilli201
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 3:53pm
People seem to take the political beliefs with them. They are not leaving because of the politics, they are leaving to find jobs. They will end up turning Texas in a liberal cesspool just like California.

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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 7:59pm
  Everywhere that liberals move to, they turn it into a craphole.
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 8:21pm
  Send them to Michigan or Baltimore. They should feel at home. Many are too doped up to work and produce or some of them who are leaving may want to go where they have plenty of free ‘stuff.’ Just hope those leaving are leaving to open businesses. You will know before long. Of course if they are accompanied by the massive doses of illegals in both states, then you better learn how to speak Farsi and Spanish. Watch the mosques go up and the Christian churches start being vandalized. Know what you are dealing with. All who appear Mexican or Latin are not. They are invading and mooching in many instances.
  
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auntmoxie.com
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 12:57pm
My only hope is that these folks don’t come here and vote for laws that ruin us, as liberal Bostonians did when they infested New Hampshire.

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- SELECT
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 3:33pm
  ….too say the very least!!! don’t allow Pelosi to rent any trucks going to Texas. sooner or later the liberal voters being controlled in Marxists states will wise up and either vote liberals out or move to a conservative state.
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 8:16pm
  Not to worry, they will. You already are allowing false history books to come out of Texas. These text books are going across the states and are being used in schools to distort history, portray our founding fathers as losers and dumb down the students. Maybe they are coming there because they realize there are those like them in your state. Close down those re-writing history.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:23pm
  i thought yall pasted an income tax ban in NH.
  
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