NC Speaker of the House, Paul "Skip" Stam, Offers to Help PayPal Find a New State to Do Business In | Eastern North Carolina Now

    To show that there are no hard feelings between the state of North Carolina and PayPal, Speaker of the House, Paul "Skip" Stam has generously offered to help PayPal find another state to do business in. Check it out.

    Rep. Stam's Memo:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 12, 2016

I WANT TO HELP PAYPAL

Find a Suitable Place of Service
    On March 16, PayPal announced that it would gladly receive $3.6 million from the state of North Carolina to locate a new facility near Charlotte. Then on April 5, PayPal President & CEO, Dan Schulman, announced that it would not move to North Carolina because of the passage of SL 2016-3. Certainly, this was not because of the bathroom/locker-room situation since the bill did not even apply to private business facilities. PayPal was incensed at the so-called failure of the legislation to include extra special protections for sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity. PayPal lawyers apparently did not realize that this was the same law in effect on March 16. PayPal currently maintains its operations center and main office in Nebraska and has a technology center in Arizona as well as a data service office in Texas -- all states with similar discrimination policies as North Carolina.

    The problem for PayPal is that 31 other states (and the federal government) also lack those categories for extra special protection. So PayPal would be limited to 20 states:

California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Illinois
Iowa
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Maine
Maryland
Minnesota
Oregon
Rhode Island
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
    But PayPal will need to narrow its list further. In the publication Rich States Poor States and the publication by the National Tax Foundation on Tax Policy, the following states are in the bottom 15 in economic or tax climate. PayPal would certainly want to avoid these states.

    The 15 worst state rankings for fostering business development include:

36. Washington
37. West Virginia
38. Maine
39. Pennsylvania
40. Montana
41. Oregon
42. Hawaii
43. Illinois
44. Delaware
45. Minnesota
46. California
47. Connecticut
48. New Jersey
49. Vermont
50. New York
    The 15 worst state rankings for tax climate include:

36. South Carolina
37. Louisiana
38. Arkansas
39. Georgia
40. Iowa
41. Maryland
42. Ohio
43. Wisconsin
44. Connecticut
45. Rhode Island
46. Vermont
47. Minnesota
48. California   
49. New York
50. New Jersey
    Now PayPal is down to only 5 states: Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Utah.

    But PayPal has another problem: It does business in 25 nations where homosexual acts are a crime. So it would certainly want to reduce its footprint there. It would also want to stop its plans to expand to Cuba and would want to eliminate its operations in the People's Republic of China. Each have brutal communist dictatorships.

    Hopefully this research will be helpful to PayPal in its search for a new location more compatible with its principles.


    Reference: http://paulstam.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/I-WANT-TO-HELP-PAYPAL.pdf

poll#94

Should Americans be thankful for North Carolinians setting precedent in taking a stand for their state's right to manage the safety of their public facilities, where separation of the sexes remains, or should they follow Bruce Springsteen's lead and boycott the state as bigots since they will not allow grown Transgender men to use the same bathrooms /locker rooms as pre-pubescent girls?

  North Carolina is right to control the separation of the sexes as a matter of decorum and safety.

  North Carolina is a bigoted state to not require that children of opposite sexes share the same public facilities with adults of the opposite sex, although misidentified - the Transgender.

  I generally prefer the natural environs of the vacant, although rather public, large tree.

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