[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
I own a California based business, and am in a technology partnership with UC San Diego. I cannot even begin to tell you the amount of bureaucratic red tape I go through to get the simplest things done. For him to assert that, because Apple is successful, all other businesses in California are successful, is the height of idiocy.
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Apparently you lack even rudimentary reading comprehension skills. That probably goes a long way towards explaining your lack of success.

Here’s what I said:

California is the home to Apple, the biggest, most successful company in the world. That fact blows a pretty massive hole in your theory that California regulations are stifling business.

What you need to ask your self is why you are unable to succeed when the regulatory environment in California is so conducive to business growth that the largest, most successful company in the world was founded and grew to became dominant here?

I’m clearly not saying that every company in California is successful. I’m saying that the California regulatory environment is very pro-business (so pro-business that it spawned the largest, most successful company in the world).

I also find it hilarious and the height of hypocrisy that your business partner is the University of California — a government institution. You are probably more dependent on the government than most welfare recipients.