Posted on 04/19/2015 8:21:01 AM PDT by rktman
The most prosperous states in the past ten years were:
Utah North Dakota Indiana North Carolina Arizona Idaho Georgia Wyoming South Dakota Nevada
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Some story about a goose comes to mind...
Thought it said “preposterous”
LOL! Very fitting in a lot of instances.
Never mind the truth, Liberals will have apoplectic fits because this was ALEC research.
Well in GA we do attract business but if it moves it gets taxed. Income tax, sales tax, ad valorem tax on all vehicles. I’m talking $200 for the car tag on a 2006 Honda CRV last year. They just voted through an eight cent increase on fuel a couple weeks ago and $200 per year on all electric vehicles. A new $5 per head hotel room tax per night. Its endless taxes here. Endless.
LOL! Those plates for your Honda are cheap compared to NV tags. 8 year old Volvo for current year was $370. For the 2012 Hemi Ram it was $434. Quite a shock coming from FL where it used to be around $120 for 2 years. That may have changed since we left 4 years ago. But hey, it’s a dry heat here.
Wow big bucks.
In Indiana it goes down every year for the first 10 years and then is constant.
So three of my four are $12 each.
But a new 40 grand car is 500 bucks.
but for libtards, these are the policies that lead to white privilege, social injustice, and increased economic inequality, and so are evil
Kinda how it’s calculated in NV but I don’t think it will ever get down to $12. Say, how come you NEED 4 cars? Shouldn’t you be sharing with those less fortunate? LOL! My wife’s cousin from Germany was visiting and could not understand why we “needed” 3 cars at the time. Uh, because we can. LOL!
The joke of it is two of them combined total about 3000 miles a year. Garage queens.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Oh yeh I forgot that they charge per mile to drive in the HOV lanes on the expressway also.
Constant road construction and/or repair. The state bird of GA is the Industrial Crane. :-)
Conservatives should be just as concerned as anyone else about ALEC - it is essentially a market for selling legislation to donors and sponsors, and for developing political talent that is amenable to the appeals of the lobbying industry. This is not how things are supposed to work in a representative system. Skepticism is warranted, if for no other reason that than organization’s priorities are very different from, and often directly opposed to, those of a typical citizen.
Government should not be a profit center, but because of the unfortunate situation where open bribery is effectively completely legal, that’s what it has become to many types of large and powerful business interests.
“The evidence is ‘overwhelming’ that fiscally-conservative policies are successful for states, Moore claimed…
‘How do you explain the huge exodus out of California?’ Moore asked rhetorically, referring to the state’s ranking of seventh to last in the index. ‘They didn’t move because of the weather.'”
For those interested in Governor Walker’s presidential race, note that WI is not in the list of top 10.
However Gallup does a hiring intentions survey regularly and issues an annual state-by-state comparison. In 2009 Wisconsin was tied with 3 other states for 35th position. The results since, summarized:
2009: 35th tied with three others
2010: 18th tied with five others
2011: 20th tied with 7 others (Walker’s first year as Governor)
2012: 14th tied with two others
2013: 9th tied with two others
2014: 2nd tied with Texas and Nebraska (listed as 4th, but all three states had raw scores of 31% more employers hiring than laying off)
The study asks employees whether their employers are hiring, laying off, or making no changes, and nets out the first two numbers. It will be interesting to see if these hiring intention numbers lead to larger increases in actual employment and economic growth in the near future.
LOL! We’ve driven through the state of never ending road construction many times.
I wonder where Connecticut is on the list?
Chk the map graphic. I think it has the number ranking on the state
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