{"id":16464,"date":"2014-02-18T07:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16464"},"modified":"2014-02-18T07:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:50:45","slug":"drip-drip-drip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/drip-drip-drip\/","title":{"rendered":"Drip … drip … drip."},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this yesterday via Tam<\/a> and have been thinking how to comment\/elaborate on it: “Assortative Relocation, Remington, and You”<\/a> by WeaponsMan.<\/p>\n

He’s taking the long look at Remington’s just-announced decision to open a plant in Huntsville, Alabama. <\/p>\n

Remington has been identified for nearly two centuries with an otherwise unheralded burg in upstate New York. Ilion. That’s where a man with the marvelous name of Eliphalet Remington<\/a> designed his first gun. And since 1816, apparently not much else has ever happened in Ilion other than … Remington. <\/p>\n

The company says it has no intention of abandoning its plant or employees there; it’s just expanding (and good for Remington). Furthermore, a Cuomo spokesthing waves its arms and frantically shouts, “New York isn’t losing any jobs! New York isn’t losing any jobs!”<\/a><\/p>\n

But this is how it works. Even a union official (member of a crowd that tends to be oblivious to ways in which actions produce consequences) understands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SAFE Act … general nannying … high costs of doing business … crushing regulation = eventual goodbye.<\/p>\n

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Drip … drip … drip.<\/p>\n

Remington isn’t abandoning New York now<\/i>. But five or ten years from now, if they need to downsize, will they close the plant in the state that hates and taxes them to death? Or the state that welcomes them? Five or ten years from now, if they need to expand, will they expand in the state that hates and taxes them to death? Or the state (or, hate to say it, country) that welcomes them?<\/p>\n

Drip … drip … drip.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

There are no surprises here. This is just human history in action. Sometimes we could wish it happened faster, though, so that more people would understand the connection. <\/p>\n

It’s easy to see what’s happening when a pogrom or a famine or a military coup drives people and their money and their creativity and their entrepreneurial energies out of a country or a region. The smartest leave<\/i>.<\/p>\n

In a way, we’re seeing pogrom-like results right now as firearms-related companies move out of, or at least diversify out of, states that just passed laws to damage them. You and I see that clearly. Unfortunately, we’re in the seeing minority.<\/p>\n

So much harder to perceive when decades of regulations put the squeeze on businesses or when minimum wage laws gradually make it pointless to hire the unskilled. (When McDonalds and Starbucks replace burger-flippers and baristas with dispensing machines, it’ll be because “big business is evil,” you know, not because the skills of burger-flippers and baristas aren’t worth a $15\/hour minimum wage. And yes, such a minimum has already been mandated for some employees here in the Northwet, and there’s active agitation to spread it.)<\/p>\n

So it goes.<\/p>\n

Drip … drip … drip.<\/p>\n

I know most readers of this blog aren’t much interested in emigration or the tax benefits of going offshore. But that’s next, folks. Businesses have already done it en masse<\/i> of course. But even though we all already know that, the specifics still have the ability to shock. (JB sends word that the U.S. is now almost entirely dependent on China not just for cheap clothing and iDevices, but for antibiotics<\/a>; think on that, preppers).<\/p>\n

When Alabama — or Texas or Wyoming or New Hampshire — is no longer protection enough, there’s always someplace else. <\/p>\n

Drip … drip … drip.<\/p>\n

And even though it’s still a small movement, individual Americans are increasingly understanding that there’s always someplace else for them, too, just as individual companies have understood for a long time. For now, Alabama or Texas or Wyoming or New Hampshire may be sufficient for worried Americans.<\/p>\n

But when that’s no longer true, there is always someplace else<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Drip … drip … drip.<\/p>\n

Or, alternatively, somewhere to make a stand. <\/p>\n

But that’s a story for a different day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this yesterday via Tam and have been thinking how to comment\/elaborate on it: “Assortative Relocation, Remington, and You” by WeaponsMan. He’s taking the long look at Remington’s just-announced decision to open a plant in Huntsville, Alabama. Remington has been identified for nearly two centuries with an otherwise unheralded burg in upstate New York. Ilion. That’s where a man with the marvelous name of Eliphalet Remington designed his first gun. And since 1816, apparently not much else has ever happened in Ilion other than … Remington. The company says it has no intention of abandoning its plant or employees<\/p>\n

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