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My family and I are recent transplants to North Carolina having moved here almost two years ago from Las Vegas. We have enjoyed our new home here but there are a few things that could be better. In Nevada, there are no state income taxes--a definite plus. The job situation here is very difficult, as is the situation nation-wide but it seems that the prospects for improvement are worse here than in many other places with the erosion of the traditional economic base of manufacturing continuing its downward slide. One other thing that I see is that there seems to be an increasing government intrusion into the private life of its citizen in terms of increasing regulation and laws that limit individual freedoms. An example of this has been ordinances reported in the media to limit parking vehicles on a person's lawn, whether an individual can tether their dog on their private property and other increasing legislation to regulate business and commerce. Trends like this are what has caused California to become less and less attractive and is reflected in its declining population (if you ignore the number of illegal immigrants). North Carolina would do well to see what the California model has done to cause that state to be at the edge of bankruptcy.

For jobs, NC needs a university system that is focused on education, not sports.

Why would any company (not bribed) want to move a business to North Carolina? We are the highest taxed of the 12 Southern States. Our government school system ranks near the bottom in achievement. We have one of the highest gasoline taxes in the country.

This is a state that has been controlled by tax happy Democrats for far too many years. We now have folks in the legislature trying to push Cap & Trade, which Harvared economists say will push gasoline prices to around $7 gallon, while preventing off shore drilling.

Companies would be crazy to move to such a hostile business environment.

Nevada? Unless you work in an big 100 story high rise massive luxurious hotel casino where else is there to work? And you wonder why they pay no state taxes?
California? The main problem with this state other than scumbag aid infested homo oriented Hollywood libs is there are 25 million Mexicans who mooch off the state and fed govt and think their ancestors owned the joint. They were of the Aztec empire formerly conquered by Spain. They were not in America.
The main reason America is experiencing a great depression other than fighting 2 bogus wars is because of the influx of 50 million Mexicans getting everything free off taxpayers. The reason California is sinking in red ink is because of these Mexican freeloaders and thise goes for much of the rest of America and any other freeloaders on welfare.

America once took in vagabond Europeans on Ellis Island but that ended 90 years ago. Fighting too many wars and 80 million total mooching illegals have sunk this nation to hell. It will only get worse.