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    LISA NELSON: The best states for business
    The states experienced a major upheaval of the economic success that preceded the pandemic this year, but, like clockwork, we have overcome one step at a time.
    We didn’t get a free pass to fall behind, and neither did our state leaders. It is important now to hold our elected officials and ourselves accountable for the sake of the years to come.

    Businesses did not take a free pass either. They are open, and they are eager to succeed. To hold states accountable to improve pro-business environments means more jobs and a smoother recovery for the nearly 14 million Americans currently unemployed. And this month Area Development released its state ranking of top states for doing business in 2020. Publications, rankings and analyses are more important than ever before because they tell us, the voters, how our state or state leaders are stacking up, and who we should be taking cues from.

    At the top of the list is Georgia – its seventh consecutive win – followed by Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas and North Carolina, respectively. In fact, every state in the ranking’s top ten is in the South aside from the 7th, Indiana. But separate from a clear geographical majority, the 13 variables used to rank the state’s pro-business environments included corporate tax structure, the state’s regulatory environment and state government cooperation and responsiveness.



    Similarly, organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council release comprehensive reports annually to check in with how the states are doing in specific policy areas. Last month the 13th Edition of Rich States, Poor States released, which ranks the economic competitiveness of states using 15 equally weighted policy variables. Right-to-work, top marginal corporate income tax rate and state minimum wage are among them, and Area Development’s top 5 states are ranked in the upper half of these Rich States, Poor States variables.

    While Area Development makes a ranking to help states create a pro-business environment – which would no doubt help states identify steps to build business strong in the recovery unfolding before us – it’s also important to stay attuned to what priorities best serve the taxpayers in our states.
    Stronger business means more jobs, and more jobs mean more opportunity for Americans. Good economic policy is obviously a win for the residents of every state, and trends have shown people will flee the poor states to find success in those better-prepared states. We saw it this year with New York, and we will likely see it again.

    Luckily, we also know the policy solutions that make up good economic policy thanks to the many publications, rankings and analysis that tell us how our states did. Even before the pandemic, when our economy was thriving, neglecting to make policy changes in the right direction was enough to fall behind. This is even more true today as we grapple with the fiscal shock of the global crisis.


    That is why it is so important we stay informed, and we check in on our elected officials’ and our state leaders’ performances to make sure we’re making the right decisions as voters, taxpayers and community leaders. We should keep up with our state’s ranking in business, in economic competitiveness and how our governors are performing. These variables have proven to work, they are based on individual liberty and free enterprise and they lay the roadmap to success.
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    From a SC businessman that has to deal with govt ineptitude- this is fake news and BS govt propaganda

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    Where would you rather live?
    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

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    Unfortunately I don’t think a state exists where it is ‘easy’ to do business. I see this as more of a sucks the least, or tallest midget kind of deal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck Tape View Post
    Where would you rather live?
    Tennessee

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    Small local private businesses and business owners are raped, pillaged and treated like trash while larger national companies are courted, given tax breaks and incentives, including free land, to then take their profits elsewhere.

    This article is a bunch of bunk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenn View Post
    Small local private businesses and business owners are raped, pillaged and treated like trash while larger national companies are courted, given tax breaks and incentives, including free land, to then take their profits elsewhere.

    This article is a bunch of bunk.
    And they bring in all the damn yankees, reduce the quality of life of locals and take over smaller local governments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenn View Post
    Small local private businesses and business owners are raped, pillaged and treated like trash while larger national companies are courted, given tax breaks and incentives, including free land, to then take their profits elsewhere.

    This article is a bunch of bunk.
    Truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenn View Post
    Small local private businesses and business owners are raped, pillaged and treated like trash while larger national companies are courted, given tax breaks and incentives, including free land, to then take their profits elsewhere.

    This article is a bunch of bunk.
    Some truth to your statement, but large companies provide the bulk of local tax revenue (either directly or indirectly). Show me a poor county and I’ll show you a county that has no industry. The incentives given to large companies are paid back 10 fold every time. I don’t necessarily like it, but that’s the way it is.
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    Why is it that states that are "good for business" are the ones that have exploding populations?

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    and this, my friends is what is called “another media article astro-turfing the dumb masses”


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    It may surprise you to know a small business is a business with 500 or less employees. In my mind far from it.

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    And some of you would complain a bag of gold was too heavy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck Tape View Post
    And some of you would complain a bag of gold was too heavy.
    Not me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duck Tape View Post
    And some of you would complain a bag of gold was too heavy.
    Me either

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    Look at the port in Ga. They built warehouses for all the big companies & went from a small port to overtaking Charleston & becoming a top 3 container port in the US. They’ve given the port an open checkbook for investments & it shows. Charleston had its chance & dropped it when they didn’t build the terminal on Daniel Island.

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    No heavier than a bag of lead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tugted312 View Post
    Look at the port in Ga. They built warehouses for all the big companies & went from a small port to overtaking Charleston & becoming a top 3 container port in the US. They’ve given the port an open checkbook for investments & it shows. Charleston had its chance & dropped it when they didn’t build the terminal on Daniel Island.
    Tugted is correct, drive on any major road in Chatham , Effingham and Bryan County and their is cranes , concrete batch plants, dump trucks working 24/7 . The only problem is no labor at ports, truck drivers. If I was in my 20’s I would be knocking on GPA / ILA door for a job and retire at 55.


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