Posted on 06/24/2015 2:33:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For the past 11 years, Chief Executive magazine has been polling hundreds of CEOs from across the nation and evaluating state budgetary and economic growth metrics to determine the best and worst states for business. And for the 11th straight year, California has come in dead last.
Texas repeated as the best state for business, aided by its lack of corporate or personal income taxes, and Florida, also without an individual income tax, once again finished runner-up. Rounding out the bottom five of the list were New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts, which remained unchanged from last year’s survey.
“California is the highest-taxed state in the nation, highest gas tax, 60-plus cents per gallon, which, combined with [California Air Resources Board] regulations, makes delivery within the state extremely costly,” said one CEO. “Added to this is the disdain for any and all manufacturing as Sacramento wants this to be a Green State. Add to that a pension debt that is largely ignored but very real.”
High-tax and onerous regulatory policies have consequences, and businesses certainly take such surveys seriously when deciding whether to start, expand or relocate a business to California.
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California sneezes and the rest of get pneumonia.
Pretty soon they’ll be leaving in droves and bringing their ideological disease with them.
Governor Malloy: “Thank you, California!”
WOO HOOOO!!!!! WE’RE NEGATIVE #1!!!!
The Browning of California!!!
Nigh comp!ete! Just the wrong Brown.
They already are. We have to put up with them in middle TN.
Well FL has something like a 9% corporation tax. But we do have an almost unlimited fresh water supply.
Been in SoCal for over 40 years. I am looking forward to moving out. It is rather impossible for the middle class here.
But it looks like the weather might not be enough anymore.
Assuming Californians wear this as a badge of honor. They’ve voted for a hostile business climate for decades and doubt that any politician sees the ranking as a negative.
“Pretty soon they’ll be leaving in droves and bringing their ideological disease with them.:’
BINGO! Keep the Dummycrat morons in mexifornia instead of them fleeing to destroy your red state and city. See Colorado and Oregon..
I was born and raised there. Got transferred in 1991 and haven’t been back for the last two years. Don’t plan to ever go back.
Hope you’ll be able to get out one day.
Big business keeps on coming.
Facebook was invented in Boston, but Zuckerberg had to move it to the silicon valley. Moves like this offset small business. The 49 state migration is now a net inbound to California.
Imagine what a small business friendly climate would do? Population would explode, but there are too many impediments for building new housing withing 50 miles of the coast.
Jerry Brown is anti suburb, which means anti population growth.
So being DFL for small business: no big deal.
What is left in this garbage dump with our leader Moonbeam and his communists legislature and Administration is the reason we are 50. This illegal Mexican State is in the shi! can. Example, they had years and finances to solve the water problem but crap like a fast rail to nowhere but gambling casinos was more important. How about that stupid little fish that keep our lawns dry and the farmers soil parched..
Yah, FL and TX
| RANK | STATE | LAST YEAR'S RANK | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Florida | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | Tennessee | 3 | -1 |
| 5 | Georgia | 10 | 5 |
| 6 | Indiana | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Louisiana | 9 | 2 |
| 8 | Nevada | 8 | 0 |
| 9 | Arizona | 7 | -2 |
| 10 | South Carolina | 5 | -5 |
| 11 | Colorado | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | Wisconsin | 14 | 2 |
| 13 | Iowa | 19 | 6 |
| 14 | Virginia | 11 | -3 |
| 15 | Utah | 13 | -2 |
| 16 | Oklahoma | 20 | 4 |
| 17 | Wyoming | 18 | 1 |
| 18 | Idaho | 28 | 10 |
| 19 | North Dakota | 12 | -7 |
| 20 | Delaware | 23 | 3 |
| 21 | New Hampshire | 24 | 3 |
| 22 | Ohio | 27 | 5 |
| 23 | South Dakota | 15 | -8 |
| 24 | Alabama | 17 | -7 |
| 25 | Nebraska | 21 | -4 |
| 26 | Missouri | 22 | -4 |
| 27 | Kansas | 26 | -1 |
| 28 | Kentucky | 25 | -3 |
| 29 | Montana | 31 | 2 |
| 30 | Maine | 36 | 6 |
| 31 | Minnesota | 34 | 3 |
| 32 | Washington | 33 | 1 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 29 | -4 |
| 34 | Alaska | 32 | -2 |
| 35 | Pennsylvania | 42 | 7 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 30 | -6 |
| 37 | Rhode Island | 40 | 3 |
| 38 | West Virginia | 35 | -3 |
| 39 | Mississippi | 37 | -2 |
| 40 | Maryland | 41 | 1 |
| 41 | Vermont | 39 | -2 |
| 42 | Oregon | 38 | -4 |
| 43 | Michigan | 45 | 2 |
| 44 | Hawaii | 43 | -1 |
| 45 | Connecticut | 44 | -1 |
| 46 | Massachusetts | 46 | 0 |
| 47 | New Jersey | 47 | 0 |
| 48 | Illinois | 48 | 0 |
| 49 | New York | 49 | 0 |
| 50 | California | 50 | 0 |
At least once a week, I take the time to write back to recruiters trying to poach me into a job in Silicon Valley. I always tell them, “I will never move to California”. Only to some 3rd worlder does California look attractive.
Doesn’t shock me. This state is the embodiment of misery.
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