Taxes: Where do you live?

The ten states with the most business-friendly tax systems this year are: Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Texas, Delaware, Montana and Oregon.

The ten states with the least hospitable business tax climates are: New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, Vermont, Maine, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa and Arkansas. Read all of the study results here.

Listen, I know I have to move, my tax burden is intolerable. The tax climate in New York is so hostile, the sale of a family owned business was the most desirable option. New York is owned and operated by the Democratic party machine. It is a nightmare. The Republicans are not even a minority party here, they are nonexistent.
And while we are on the subject of New York and speaking of Slavery Taxation, go here and here

Comments

[MarkD]

Amen. I'm thinking San Antonio.

[Thomas Carney]

A friend of mine has an oil brokerage business in California of all places. The taxes have been brutal. She moved to Nevada and she's slashed her business taxes tremendously.

Wyoming is also very friendly to farmers. I'm glad at least one state is. Virginia is taxing their farmers into oblivion.

[Chip]

When I was a kid, Florida was the seventeenth most populus state in the Union. Now we're fourth. The road to the presidency not only comes through, but has its only rest stop, in Florida.

Point being: people vote with their feet.

[lowandslow]

I wouldn't even mind paying the taxes as they are now (Wisconsin mind you, nothing like NY) if they where spent responsibly but it just gets pissed away by the lawmakers, bureaucrats and everyone else sucking off the goverment. But the thing that really fries my a** are the civil servants always bitching they need more, bunch of f*cking leeches demanding their neighbors who already have less than them give up even more. *spit*

[elvis]

I think it's possible to incorporate in Delaware and Nevada without moving. Of course, that doesn't take into account all the other NY taxes.

There are no state income or sales taxes in NH, but property taxes are relatively high. Ostensibly, one might not mind since those monies would be aimed at one's own neighborhood. But now they've added a state property tax to fund less afluent school districts than those in which one may reside.

[raz0r]

Pamela,

We'll make room for you and the girls in Florida. Just think, no more snow shovels or heavy winter clothes. Just box them up until you go visit. We only have a handful of cold days and they don't last long past noon. Think about it. A friendly red state.

[Mark]

I'm managing ok in Indiana.

[jay]

How is California not in the top 10

[penxv]

Ohio has been strongly Republican for a while... so the professional politicians simply run as Republicans and then tax and govern people as if they were Democrats.

They basically run under the slogan..."Hey, at least I'm not a Democrat."

But outside of taxation... they aren't very invasive. There are way too many heavily armed drunk hillbillies in Ohio for that to happen.

[lowandslow]

Thomas Sowell agrees with me.
While unions are declining in the private sector, they are expanding among government employees. Government agencies are usually monopolies, so competition is no threat to their jobs. Taxpayers get hit with the high cost of these monopolies. There is no such thing as something for nothing.