Courtesy of The Blaze.com.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship, and Thumbtack.com have released a study ranking the “least” and “most” business-friendly states in the U.S.
Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah all got an A +. New Hampshire got an ‘A.’ The only respectable grade in the Northeast. (Notice how the failing states are all shades of blue?) The next closest was Maine with a ‘D+.’ Massachusetts and Connecticut got a ‘D,’ Vermont and Rhode Island received the big ‘F.’ You have to go all the way to Pennsylvania to get a ‘C.’
The survey was completed by actual small business owners so it is encouraging but hardly definitive. But we know we have a good thing going on. Highest average income, lowest poverty, best quality of life, safest, lowest overall tax burden, and –surprise!— a business friendly climate. A business friendly climate that four years of democrat rule tried to destroy. An advantage the progressives would happily exchange, enthusiastically exchange, for what the other New England states have if given the opportunity. (D’s and F’s if you were not paying attention.)
