Let’s see, the state of NY has deliberately refused to participate in the oilfield fracking boom that would have enriched its farmers/landowners and brought in thousands of high-paying, low-skilled roughneck oilfield jobs...
...and the city of NY has banned butter and giant Coke drinks.
Then you’ve got taxes and unions...and multiple overlapping government regulatory bodies.
Plus, Winters suck there.
Gee, why would workers and businesses leave NY?!
No business or hard working productive worker willingly wants to move to a high tax, high regulation, insane public union goon controlled and long term democrat ruled state.
Only the leeches of the free sh*t army like that kind of state.
taxes way way too high to permit much attracting of capital or business or jobs to NY
same problem Californicate and Taxachusetts have
and even, to a somewhat lesser degree, Michigan and Illinois
hint: business jobs and capital go where the investments pay off. if you have to give most of your profits to a state and.or local government — then that leaves a whole lot less return on your investment... and (usually, absent special factors) you
will simply take your money and jobs elsewhere.
Think, Texas, Florida, ....
I heard a NYS commercial I think on WABC77 radio that said that NYS would waive taxes for ~ 10 years to some businesses that move there, but we know its not all taxes.
Wouldn’t that be ‘giving tax subsidies to the rich’ ??
Cant NYS put up a wall like East Berlin did to keep its best and brightest from fleeing?
The sad thing is that the NY-ers will take their liberal voting patterns with them and create the same messes in their new states.
Here Are the 10 Freest States in the U.S. (And the Least)
Mar. 28, 2013(blaze link)
Freedom in the 50 States: New York(youtube vid, linked from blaze)
Expanding marriage to gays is freedom?
Coumo might have to switch to Plan B and fine people for moving from that communist hellhole.
Maybe he'll put up a wall and a minefield to boot.
The apparatchiks can only drain so much from Wall St, anybody with half a brain is escaping while they still can.
Moscow on the Hudson is about to collapse, just like Detroit.
Problem is they are MOVING to FLORIDA and bringing their LIBERALVOTING and IDEAS WITH THEM!!! STAY IN NEW YORK.....REAP WHAT YOU SOWED!!
If any business man or woman is STUPID enough to take the BAIT that Marxist Cuomo and his cronies are offering in Albany you deserve to LOSE your business because that is what will happen. The fine print of his deals means slavery.
NY will never reverse its decline until NY City stops being the tail that wags the dog. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen for a very long time.
Gov. Cuomo, lanches a 10 year tax holiday for business who relocate to New York.
At least some of them recognize part of the problem.
I lived in all parts of NY (NYC, Long Island, and upstate), most recently in upstate. It is quite a depressing place to live. The weather sucks, the industry is mostly gone, and the cities (Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, ad Buffalo) are rotting. While the property may be cheap, the property taxes are sky high.
I can’t wait to join the exodus of people leaving NY. I havent decided where to relocate but it will be somewhere that appreciates freedom and American values. A difficult place to find these days.
It's just nature's way of weeding out stupid companies.
NY has moved to Florida, turning it into just another dimocrat leftist state.
The entire northeast is a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.
Between the unions, the corrupt Liberal politicians, and the environmental busybodies they have managed to turn most of the upstate into the American equivalent of Moldova. Now that the Commies are in firmly charge in the City (as opposed to the greedy and asinine Liberals, who at least tried to keep the near corpse alive so they could continue to suck blood), the rest of the joint is going to move from barely on life support to DNR.
I say that sadly as one who was born there and lived upstate for many years until it just got too depressing and hard to make a living and the taxes became unbearable so I fled to greener pastures. It was a wise move although I still love the upstate - or at least what it used to be.
If ever there was a time and a place, it is NOW for the NewYork Upstaters to SECEDE - from that unbearable CITY !
(What am I trying to recall seeing about a map showing population/counties and info about NewYork diversity . . .