Thursday, January 04, 2007
New Jersey's continuing war on business
Behold New Jersey's position, relative to the other states, ranked from the best environment for business to the worst, all according to a rather lengthy report(pdf) from the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.
Blessed as we are with a governor who used to be the CEO of the world's most profitable financial institution, you would think that we would do better.
7 Comments:
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Thu Jan 04, 11:23:00 AM:
The top three states have some of the worst weather in the country. My American business friends continue to move most or all of their operations to hassle-free environments overseas. America's glory days are slowly coming to an end.
By cakreiz, at
Thu Jan 04, 11:29:00 AM:
I'm not surprised. Jersey's always had the reputation of taxing anything that moves (as does NY).
By 
, at
Thu Jan 04, 12:21:00 PM:
DEC may have noted something intrinsic in his comment. To equalize the disincentive of "bad weather", these states have created a more business-friendly tax climate.
PS. I would guess that most of the "business friendly" rating of Nevada is centered on Reno and Las Vegas, beneficiairies of California's "anti" business climate. California, however, is the richest (per capita) state in the country, so they must be doing something right at some level.
-David
By Dawnfire82, at
Thu Jan 04, 12:43:00 PM:
Those levels being Hollywood and Silicon Valley, I imagine...
Did anyone notice the more than 10 point difference separating New Jersey from DC? Sheesh...
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Jan 04, 04:24:00 PM:
For decades states in the north east have been sowing, now they reap.
I drive from FL to upstate NY and back a few times a year. I make it a point to avoid NJ entirely by swinging N/W towards Harrisburg when I hit Baltimore. Then I take 81/83 up to Binghamton and 88 into the Albany area.
The state of NJ is dead to me and I refuse to spend as much as a dime there subsidizing their foolishness.
By , at
Thu Jan 04, 06:52:00 PM:
"Blessed as we are with a governor ..." Do you really feel Corzine is a blessing? He hasn't challenged the out of control spending in NJ state government, or done anything else.
By TigerHawk, at
Fri Jan 05, 06:30:00 AM:
Anon re "blessed..."
I was being droll.
Having said that, I'm fairly convinced that Jon Corzine is a good guy, honest guy, dressed up in statist liberal attire. In New Jersey, though, that's about the best we can hope for these days.
