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Your taxing will end when a billion dollar company lands its HQ here on LI.
Yep. That's why taxes are so low in Virginia. The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor#Notable_companies"]list of companies[/URL] with headquarters or major regional offices along the Dulles tech corridor is impressive: AOL, AT&T, Cisco, DynCorp, a bunch of auto companies, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Symantec, Oracle, to name a few.
JProfess noted in another thread that Canon broke ground on its new headquarters in Melville. That's good for about 2,000 jobs.
And I have it on good authority that Adecco is going to be headquartered in Melville, as well. Not sure how many jobs that will bring.
But more of that needs to happen. That's really what's going to make a difference. Cutting you-know-whats is like putting a band-aid on a stab wound. It's a gesture that would appease the masses, but in the long run, it's not going to do a whole heck of a lot. If you want lower taxes, you need commercial growth.
And I say that knowing full well that aside from Melville, the other area that would be primed for such growth would be my backyard because of the airport.
But which one comes first? The lower taxes to attract businesses or businesses to lower the taxes? If I wanted to start a business somewhere, I would pick the place with most profit potential, which means more income and less expenses. Nova is just as expensive as LI and it's overpopulated as well. I suspect the teachers/cops salaries never reach $100k in VA and taxes would be lower than ours even without the companies. If taxes keep on going up the way they have been, how long will the companies stay even if a few come?
05-06-2010, 09:08 PM
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But which one comes first? The lower taxes to attract businesses or businesses to lower the taxes? If I wanted to start a business somewhere, I would pick the place with most profit potential, which means more income and less expenses. Nova is just as expensive as LI and it's overpopulated as well. I suspect the teachers/cops salaries never reach $100k in VA and taxes would be lower than ours even without the companies. If taxes keep on going up the way they have been, how long will the companies stay even if a few come?
Neither come first- Businesses nowadays with the magic of the internet will locate to a place that's cheap and convinent for them, as well as a place where they can find hires and live well.
NoVA is in many ways the well developed commercial and residential suburb to Washington, with many of the Gov't offices especially military being in NoVA. NoVA has the quite posh urban cities of Alexandria and Arlington. NoVA has a fantastic Metro, poor traffic but the roads on an okay day can get you into DC in 30-40 minutes. NoVA has George Mason, UVA, and VA Tech.
Long Island is a sub-par developed residental suburb to New York. There is little to no major commerical business remaining here. There are no towns/cities of noteriety (save the East End which is a completely different story). We have a rip off railroad, and traffic that's so poor, generally the 40 minute trip to Manhattan takes 90 minutes and costs 5.50 each way. LI has Hofstra, C.W. Post, and NYIT.
Well, what does LI have that's a bigger plus- it's proximity to NYC is far more valuable than anyones proximity to DC, but you know what- if a business wants to be in NYC... there's plenty that's closer and cheaper, hungrier for their dollar, and willing to work with big business.
So the taxes will not end. Even if you can have your way with your massive public service cuts, taxes here will never stabalize to what other people pay- nothing will ever equate to what commercial business base can do to an area.
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