Ebay, Adobe, EA Games, Many Others Leaving California For Utah Over Confiscatory Tax Rate

by: warner todd huston | published: 08 25, 2010

Computer software giant Adobe, computer game monster EA Games, and Internet auction king ebay are abandoning California to set up shop in Utah. Why? California's horrid business climate and high taxes.

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.

Here is a partial list of the large and medium-sized companies that have either moved parts of their business or have left the "land of milk and honey" for brighter prospects altogether:

Details on these moves can be seen HERE.

It should be noted that Utah is a right-to-work state.

Recently, Fox Business Channel also discussed this issue:

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