"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in message
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On 5/14/2012 2:25 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
"ChairMan" wrote:

Not really. if it cost more for them to sell their products there vs
the rest of the country, I see it as a savings.
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That is a very big "IF".

Walking away from a market (California) in excess of 38 million people
when the entire US market is less than 310 million is just not going
to happen.

Actually it does happen, there are numerous companies that will not do
business with/in California because of the silly paranoid laws. There is
simply too much risk. The writing is on the walls. You warn that your
product may cause cancer with and you have opened yourself up to future
litigation.

I often see shipping comments that a product cannot be shipped to AL, Hi,
or CA.

Yep, I used to work in the specialty coffee industry. There is a whole
bunch of Italian espresso manufacturers who refuse to sell their machines in
the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia. Many individual Health Departments
passed regulations that the local health department had to "approve" of each
espresso machine in that county. This approval had to take place on a
county by county basis. They would have to pay for each county "approval".
Like the morons in Kalifornia knew more about espresso machines than the
Italian manufacturers. It was a ploy to get lots of money for "Espresso
Machine Approvals". Many of the espresso machine manufacturers recognized a
shakedown when they saw it. They now sell their machine in every state
EXCEPT Kalifornia. Only Kalifornia would do such nonsense.

I was working for a publication at the time and asked a number of
individuals why they were putting up the money to get such an approval.
They talked about how it was challenging and they would derive much
satisfaction in getting the local health department "approval". Totally
demented and stupid. And totally Kalifornia. These stupid people have to
pay much more for products and receive less service, compliments of an
oppressive state and county government who wants to meddle in all kinds of
affairs that serve no useful purpose. Kalifornians deserve each other.