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

Tax Foundation ^ | October 11, 2006 | staff

[peggybac]

From Pacific Research:

http://www.pacificresearch.org/press/clip/2004/04-11-24lm.html

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump for later research.

[Alia]

NC *Ping*

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[metesky]

42. Maine

I'm surprised Maine isn't #50 as the governor's idea of economic development was to visit Cuba and make a $10 million deal for dairy cows and to suck up to Hugo Chavez for a few gallons of "low cost" heating oil.

To hear the locals grumble about "big money from away" is to realize you're dealing with economic retards.

[Madame Dufarge]

She is an expert at raising fees instead of taxes, and then claim she has balanced the States budget without raising taxes, which is just a bunch of crap!

Maine's governor Baldacci uses the same playbook.

[goldstategop]

People are leaving high tax states to move to low tax states.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Zhangliqun]

I doubt it - NH has had a pretty serious libertarian streak to it [low taxes and not too generous social services]. That's how it has always been. Thus I would suspect that its place near the top is a more or less a permanent fixture.

I've been considering a move to the Lakes Region lately, so your lips to God's ear. Do NH'ers and Vermont-ites don't get along okay? Two different fiscal policy universes there...

[GSlob]

The one tax they DO have is the property tax. Check it beforehand.

[SheLion]

42. Maine

I'm surprised Maine isn't #50 as the governor's idea of economic development was to visit Cuba and make a $10 million deal for dairy cows and to suck up to Hugo Chavez for a few gallons of "low cost" heating oil.

To hear the locals grumble about "big money from away" is to realize you're dealing with economic retards.

Not to mention Baldy bringing in all those Somali's that are sucking on our welfare! heh!

42. Maine

I'm surprised Maine isn't #50 as the governor's idea of economic development was to visit Cuba and make a $10 million deal for dairy cows and to suck up to Hugo Chavez for a few gallons of "low cost" heating oil.

To hear the locals grumble about "big money from away" is to realize you're dealing with economic retards.

Not to mention Baldy bringing in all those Somali's that are sucking on our welfare! heh!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I think Vermont has fewer than 700k people. Their biggest city, Burlington, probably has around 100k people. Not too much business there to begin with.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Right to Work bump! Go Florida!

[alancarp]

The big NC Ping is that my Tar Heel state has been run by DEMs for close to a couple of DECADES now... and we're ranked the worst in the entire south BY FAR -- 40th overall. The closest Deep South state ranking is Arkansas (is that a surprise?) at 35th.

[Chena]

Bookmark for Alaska. ;)

[Alia]

You are bang-on right. I was stunned, when I moved here to see how high the taxes were, the expensiveness of food. I learned that in order to work at any "government" job, one had to be a Democrat.

And then I watched liberal after liberal authoring stories about "obesity" in the red states, about the dumbness of the South.

I see how hard the people here work. But some do not seem to understand WHY their taxes are so high, why buying highcarb foods is a necessity, why there is so much incompetence rifling through state and local bureacracies.

[hawkeye101]

Iowa should be number 50. This state chases out businesses at any chance it can get. We have no Fortune 500 companies based here, and zero venture capital. Iowa is the only state not to double in population in the last century. We have a backward state legislature that bows down to the 19th century hog and tractor lobby, and works very hard to keep this state in the dark ages. This state has had an incredible education system over the last few decades, only to serve the rest of the country, as Iowa's best and brightest vacate this state by the thousands every year. It's amazing how a state with such an educated population can be so mind-numbingly stupid about business and economics.