After assessing such factors as state, personal, and corporate income-tax rates, property taxes, sales and death taxes, and workers' compensation rates, The Small Business Survival Committee, a Washington, D.C. think tank and lobbying group, ranked the best and worst states (with regard to taxes) in which to run a business. As reported in Fortune Small Business magazine, here are the results --
The winners: 1. Nevada 2. South Dakota 3. Washington 4. Wyoming 5. Florida The losers: 1. Minnesota 2. Kansas 3. Maine 4. Hawaii 5. Rhode Island (VH) The folks over at the Minnesota Legislature are trying to figure out why the State budget is already $2 billion in the hole. Here's a thought: The income PRODUCERS are leaving in droves, retiring, slowing down, and choosing to go on a private sector version of "strike." There's no law (yet) that requires us to be in business, create jobs, spawn tax revenue, keep the wheels of the economy moving. Going into business is not worth the risk any more, at least in Minnesota. It's nearly impossible to find competent people who are willing to work and we're tired of being taxed to death, regulated to death, sued to death, and vilified by the very people who we bankroll. I hope the people scratching their heads in St. Paul get it before it's too late: No business, no jobs, no tax receipts. Vicky Heller, [EMAIL PROTECTED], St. Paul _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
