We are of course relieved that Bimbo Bakeries is not closing or relocating its plant on Lycoming Creek Road.

The industry provides vital jobs, supporting our families, friends and neighbors. It contributes to the variety of economic opportunities our young people need if they are expected to remain in our region and remain confident of their future prospects.

While we feel everyone likely shares in that sense of relief, we must note that it still is not good news for our state that the company is relocating corporate offices from the Montgomery County community of Horsham, as reported in Thursday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette.

Republican nominee for governor and state Treasurer Stacy Garrity is correct that our state’s tax climate — and the government spending that requires it — plays a role in why company leave our state and our communities or choose to locate elsewhere from the start.

It’s why we remain committed to the necessity that our lawmakers resist the exorbitant budget proposed by the Shapiro Administration.

Higher taxes push employers out. Higher taxes push families away from Pennsylvania. And when employers and businesses and families leave, those who are still here have to shoulder the fiscal burdens their potential tax bills would have helped share.

A burden that, once the state reckons with the reality that funding education as extensively as Pennsylvania does with property taxes is disparate and unconstitutional, will only grow and apply greater pressure to families’ and employers’ finances.

We hope that our lawmakers recognize this reality and rein in excessive spending before this relocation becomes a pattern that Pennsylvania cannot reverse.