{"id":3965,"date":"2008-02-15T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:30:32","slug":"how-do-you-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"How do you get to be the lowest rated state in the country in terms of climate for business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easy. just have 25+ years of leadership from people named Cuomo, Pataki, and now Spitzer.<\/p>\n

Here’s a short, pathetic editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Virtual Steamroller – WSJ.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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New York recently finished 50th in Chief Executive magazine’s survey of the best states to do business. Respondents cited high taxes, regulation and Governor Eliot Spitzer’s "hostile image toward business." <\/p>\n

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Rather than competing for the title of most-taxpayer-unfriendly state, Mr. Spitzer would be wise to consider ways to attract more taxpaying businesses. A good start would be improving New York’s overall business tax climate, which the Tax Foundation ranks 48th among the states, just ahead of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

New York is 48th, New Jersey is next – I wonder who came in 50th?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s easy. just have 25+ years of leadership from people named Cuomo, Pataki, and now Spitzer. Here’s a short, pathetic editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal Virtual Steamroller – WSJ.com New York recently finished 50th in Chief Executive magazine’s survey of the best states to do business. Respondents cited high taxes, regulation and Governor Eliot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}