[cloudmountain]

It's more than just taxes.
I've dealt with a number of businesses in light to heavy industries that fled New York State because they say it has the highest workers' compensation insurance rates in the nation -- by a huge margin.
The saga of the GE plant in Hudson Falls and the massive clean-up costs they've been forced to pay is another case in point about why New York is such a miserable place to do business.

You've made your point, in spades.

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks. Something else to think about is that one of the biggest political issues in New York these days is the pressure that the state government is putting on the Federal government to reject the license renewal for the Indian Point nuclear power plant in the Hudson River valley.

New York is already making plans to make up for the lost power transmission capacity once that plant is shut down. It will involve purchasing more and more power from Hydro-Quebec, and the long-term prognosis is likely to be for higher utility rates.