Which States Are Best for Business?(And the Worst!)

Tax Foundation ^ | October 11, 2006 | staff

[piytar]

"Hopefully, Ohioans will make the right choice and elect Ken Blackwell as governor. Maybe then those numbers will turn around."

Not going to happen. Taft has royally SUCKED. Even though Blackwell fought against Taft basically every step of the way for the past term, all people are sawing is, "Oh, Gawd, the Republican sucked, let's not elect another one!"

Strickland is going to be an utter disaster, but at this point, I think an unavoidable one...

[domenad]

Florida at #5 is 90% the work of Jeb Bush. Too bad there is so much caterwauling about his brother, Jeb would be a damn good president.

[MindBender26]

Florida is great. They leave us alone.

California? 12 years to build any manufacturing plant with all the environmental baggage, and by that time, plant is 6 years obsolete!

[RockinRight]

The red states on the list, like Ohio, are marginally red states with heavy union influence. Doesn't explain Nebraska though.

[timpad]

Ping!

[paratrooper82]

State of Michigan ranks the worst on Taxes on Corporations, at #50!

Hurry up and vote for the Canadian Socialist liberal Granholm. "You just wait in five years!"

No one in Michigan has a job NOW! And, Corporations are leaving in droves Mrs. Granholm! We cannot afford to wait for another five years!

[paratrooper82]

"California? 12 years to build any manufacturing plant with all the environmental baggage, and by that time, plant is 6 years obsolete!"

Not to mention broke!

[BelegStrongbow]

nc ping: we're 40th, or just good enough to be not the very worst.

Not very promising, come to think of it.

[paratrooper82]

All of that, and then you have to pass the environmental Nazi's and then the smoking Nazi's, and then you file for bankruptcy because more than 10 years have passed, and you still can't get your private business off the ground.

[bybybill]

Somebody is smoking some REALLY good stuff. OreGONE is a terrible place for any small business.In fact, Oregon has a law that says you must become a smaller business each year. (Nike is in violation)

[Adiemus]

Texas will re-elect Rick Perry, and Texas will continue to get better and better.

The choices for governor on the ballot this year are all horrible, IMHO. I will not vote for Perry because he favors more toll roads that already hit me in the pocket every time I drive to work. His current ads touting him as tough on the border are a joke. He did nothing about the border until he saw it was going to be a political issue. And I am against his privatizing the corridor as well. However, he has been great for business here - a positive for him. I wish we had a real conservative to vote for, but Perry is probably the closest. This year, I'll abstain in the governor section of the ballot.

[wjcsux]

You mean to tell me that the radio ads telling me that Michigan is a great place for me to re-locate my business aren't true?

[paratrooper82]

I apologize for this post, because I don't have a dog in this hunt, but, I have to ask, why would you abstain from voting for governor, possibly handing the democrat a win, someone you obviously really don't agree with either. Are you tryng to punish the Republican for being a RINO? I guess I don't understand giving the liberal socialist who have campaigned on the issue of open borders, amnesty for every illegal that is already in our Country, and they don't believe Americans should be able to own guns at all.

Again, I am sorry for sticking my nose where it does not belong, I am trying to understand this kind of thinking is all.

[wolfcreek]

Texas is # 6


We'll see where Texas stands after Perry's business tax goes into effect. In the Austin area, every new corporation that moves to town gets out of paying taxes for 10 or 15 yrs. and the property owners get to make up the difference. Perry's not fooling me.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

7 on the first list went for Bush, only three on the second list.

[brooklin]

I would have thought that the new health care plan that was passed in Ma. would have already done that. It seems to be even worse than Maines Dirigo health plan.(which is a failure)

[Big Horn]

I know this for a fact. Wyoming is very Republican. This is one reason I moved here.

[Almondjoy]

Oregon won't be that way for long with the way our current Governor is talking.

Heck I am even surprised it is that way now.

[Gay State Conservative]

would have thought that the new health care plan that was passed in Ma. would have already done that.

Certainly a reasonable assumption on your part...but the law hasn't gone into effect yet.

[VOA]

bump