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How Red States are Winning the Jobs War

July 31, 2018 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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It turns out that one of the keys to business success is lowering costs. That doesn’t just mean for raw materials, but also for government imposed costs like taxation.

The places doing the best job of lowering those taxes and attracting more business are red states like Texas. In The Wall Street Journal, James Freeman explains how one private equity firm is making money moving software firms from high tax states to low tax states like Texas.

Yesterday I told you that CNBC had classified Texas as the best state for business. This is an example of what makes that so. Freeman calls it the “Red State Business Model.” He writes:

This week the Journal notes that Robert Smith’s Vista Equity Partners has achieved exceptional results by buying software companies and then applying a standard formula for operating them. Miriam Gottfried and Laura Cooper report:

Vista, which has done more than 300 deals, tells investors it has never lost money on a buyout—notable in an industry known for big hits and misses. Its largest fund has consistently been in the top quartile of comparable funds formed the same year, measured by annualized returns after fees, according to data provider Preqin. It now manages more than $31 billion, up from just $7 billion five years ago.How does Vista generate its fabulous returns? The chairman isn’t telling. According to the Journal, “Mr. Smith has kept the details of his firm’s methods largely secret” and the firm’s best practices are “stored on a company server that makes a record every time anyone downloads or prints them.”

But at least part of the secret recipe has now been revealed. The Journal reports:

Former employees say cost cutting is critical to Vista’s model. Some of the companies Vista takes over are located in markets with a high cost of living, such as Southern California or New York City. To tamp down wages and other costs, Vista will relocate part or all of the company to a less-expensive city such as Dallas. Many employees won’t make the move, allowing Vista to hire cheaper replacements. Vista often keeps a company’s headquarters in place and encourages it to expand in lower-cost markets.Of course a big reason living costs are so high in blue states like California and New York (and of course New Jersey) is the cost of government, whether directly imposed via taxes or indirectly via regulation.

The alternative approach—call it the red-state model—seems to be working not only for the companies Vista buys but also for Vista itself. While Mr. Smith has made significant political donations to Democrats, his donations have lately been coming more from Texas than from California. Vista has offices in both, and several years ago moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin.

Read more here.

Originally posted on Yoursurvivalguy.com.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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