Are You A Business Owner?

[RoyalOrleans]

The Tax Foundation has done a study on which states are best suited for businesses ... and those that are set on punishing the achievers. The study ranked the "business-friendliness" of the states' tax systems based on five different aspects: corporate, individual income, sales, unemployment insurance and property taxes. The states with the best tax systems were "business-neutral, broad based, and transparent, and that states whose systems most reflected this ideal were the most competitive."

 

Want to know the states that met this criteria? In descending order ...

 

-- South Dakota

-- Wyoming

-- Alaska

-- Nevada

-- Florida

-- Montana

-- New Hampshire

-- Delaware

-- Washington

-- Utah

 

My home state of Georgia is bordered by Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Caroline and ... Florida. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation reports that Georgia's business tax climate has become worse .. moving from 27th to 29th in the nation. That's a dangerous trend when Florida, with it's 5th most business-friendly tax climate is just down I-75. The only neighboring state that ranks worse than Georgia would be North Carolina. In the meantime property owners in Atlanta were just hit with a 45% property tax increase. Sh!t.... I might take my shop up to South Dakota, Ali.

 

At least Georgia isn't at the bottom of the list. The states that ranked absolute worse for businesses were New Jersey, New York and California. Hmmmm ... could that be why we see so many people from New York and Jersey in Florida? Fukken carpetbaggers!

 

Now ... speaking of California, perhaps they see the problem and are getting ready to take some action. A commission studying California's tax structure has come up with some ideas:

 

•Repeal all sales and corporate taxes

•Flatten the income tax rate

•Reduce the tax burden on the high-achievers a/k/a the "wealthy."

•Levy a new tax on business net receipts.

 

Democrats are already attacking the recommendations. What's not to like? Well .. right there at the front of the list would be, as the critics present it, letting the "super-wealthy .. off the hook from paying their fair share." Oh how the lefties out there like to use the antiquated "fair share" line, based on nothing more than envious stupidity, on the achievers in our society.

 

In the meantime the producers and high-achievers continue to move out of Taxifornia. The left will never learn.

[Ahhlee]

Sh!t.... I might take my shop up to South Dakota, Ali.

 

I'm in NORTH Dakota, dummy.

 

Actually, it's not bad here and there are perks in places like ND and SD who really, really want businesses to help feed their economies and keep people in the area. One nice thing I got when I purchased my business was a complete buy down on the interest I pay on my mortgage. The city has a program in place to help small businesses and that was one of the advantages I received.

 

I will definitely read your link and add more a bit later. Interesting stuff though, RO!

[RoyalOrleans]

I'm in NORTH Dakota, dummy.

 

When did you move?

[eddo]

Do we really need 2 Dakota's?

 

really??

[ImWithStupid]

Do we really need 2 Dakota's?

 

really??

 

 

No more than we need 2 Carolinas, a Virginia and West Virginia, or an old Mexico.

[Ahhlee]

When did you move?

 

Brat. Go buy some shoes.

 

Do we really need 2 Dakota's?

 

really??

 

YES!!!!! We're the only thing protecting you from the evil ambitions of those blood-thirsty Canadians!!!!

 

Oh wait...that's just us.

 

Yeah, South Dakota is pretty useless come to think of it.

[timesjoke]

Gotta love Florida

 

Your right RO, I call it the story of the Golden Goose on the Government level.

 

They see these "rich" people making a good living and decide that they are unfairly making "too much" so they decide to take it away. Not all at once, they slowly turn up the taxes a little here, a little there, and one day the business owner looks around and wonders when his business yurned into a non-profit group because the Government is stealing away all of what used to be his profit.

 

In the Government's "greed" to steal as much money as possible from the business owner in the guise of "helping" the less advantaged, they instead drive away the business owner and not only does he take his tax money with him that the Government cannot get anymore.......but he also leaves with the jobs that the people used to have and are now forced onto the welfare system.

 

 

There business hostile Governments are shooting themselves in the foot.

[RoyalOrleans]

What you should really take from this story is the true way our Founding Fathers envisioned how this country should work. That is, the vast majority of the power over our everyday lives residing in our state and local governments with our Federal government only being responsible for a very narrow list of items.

 

And why, you might ask, is this so important. Because when a state or local government becomes corrupt: YOU CAN MOVE.

 

This was the ultimate check and balance on governmental power. How can a government be oppressive when it has no one left to govern? And it works no matter which side of the political spectrum you sit on.

 

You think gay marriage is a great idea but your state doesn’t recognize it, move to a state that does.

 

You believe the 2nd amendment guarantees your right to carry a concealed weapon, move to a state that allows that.

 

You think government healthcare is the solution, move to a state that provides it.

 

You think low taxes and minimal government regulation is the kind of place you want to start a business, move to a business friendly state.

 

You see, our Founding Fathers understood that there is no such beast as a "perfect government". They didn’t write the constitution to be conservative or liberal. In actuatlity, based on my interpretation, they created a system that would allow the different governmental ideas to compete within a framework of liberty. As long as a state government doesn’t violate the Constitution, it is free to be as socialist or as capitalist as it wants, with one important restriction, you can’t lock your citizens in or keep other citizens out.

 

You see, if a state government screws up so bad that they ruin the prosperity of the citizenry, the citizens can move to a different state or stay where you are comfortable. When the Federal government screws up, then we are all stuck with the consequences.

[Ahhlee]

[ In the meantime property owners in Atlanta were just hit with a 45% property tax increase.

 

I just noticed this.....a 45% increase just within Atlanta?????? Highway fukken robbery! That is terrible, RO.

 

God, how do you even manage?

 

You see, if a state government screws up so bad that they ruin the prosperity of the citizenry, the citizens can move to a different state or stay where you are comfortable. When the Federal government screws up, then we are all stuck with the consequences.

 

Amen! Our free range is being choked off slowly but surely.