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Hmmm.. San Francisco/Silicon Valley, the technology innovation hub of the country/world. Businesses leaders from all over the world (like China) come here to study how they can mimic it's unique success. Seattle, another incredible technology innovation hub with businesses like Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world. Chicago, a world class economic powerhouse. New York City, for decades has been the economic capital of the country and world. DC, arguably the most powerful city in the world with some of the smartest people in the world working at places like NASA, NOAA, NSA, FBI, CIA, Smithsonian, DARPA, National Science Foundation, NIH, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, CSC. Many of the top innovative businesses in the country are in Maryland suburbs of DC. Maryland is often ranked the wealthiest state in the country. Boston, and economic and academic powerhouse of the country. All of these cities lean liberal and are in left leaning states. California, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York.
States with right wing economic policies like Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, etc have...............
And then there's this, from none other than the Harvard Business Review:
But meanwhile, McCrory and his puppeteers in the NC legislature are more concerned with keeping transgender people from going to the bathroom or allowing same-sex couples to marry each other legally than they are bringing business to the state or investing in sound education.
The smart folks who are creating businesses care more about innovation and making their business thrive than they do deciding what rules from somebody's religion to make their employees (and customers) follow.
States with right wing economic policies like Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, etc have...............
Alabama has Redstone Arsenal/NASA and Cummings Research Park, as well as the country's 9th busiest port by tonnage. SC has the highest amount of international investment per capita in the country. And of course, there's Texas.
I'm a liberal-minded guy myself but the typical left/right wing dichotomy doesn't tell the entire story when it comes to state economies, and I recognize that on the whole, Southern conservative states have a ways to go in that area. Historically NC has struck a good balance between taxes and economic development and was a model for the South.
NC is fine, it is the state government that is the problem and are trying to ruin the state. IMO, SC is a lot more business friendly than NC and at this point seems more progressive. Not much difference between Eastern NC and most of SC except for the license plates.
" it is the state government that is the problem and are trying to ruin the state."
Is your opinion based on the repbs have taken over?
Did you complain when the dems ran the state for 100 YEARS?
North Carolina's idiot legislature is great for reducing state income tax which benefits the wealthy the most ...and then sticking it to the poor and middle-class residents in the form of "taxes and fees". A sales tax on my electric bill - what a crock of you-know-what! Next, they'll want sales tax on your hospital bill!!!
"Conservative" in business, means "anti-worker" with the average worker getting paid a lot less than in the states you mentioned and they have little to no worker's rights. North Carolina never seem to make the Top 10 States Happiest Employees list!
Many people have moved to NC because of it's cheap housing and property taxes. But cheaper doesn't necessarily mean better. Mcdonald's is cheaper than Ruth's Chris Steak House. Charlotte is cheaper than San Francisco!
Perhaps, with the shrinking of the middle class, North Carolina is a better fit for those who have fallen a few rungs down the economic ladder from the higher and pricier rungs of the Northeast and California. If you're so enamored with NC, you'll absolutely love Mississippi, West Virginia and Alabama!
Let's see. . .you live in Pennsylvania, but you're telling people who live in NC that they aren't being taxed more by the Republicans in Raleigh. Frankly, I think that you did intend to be rude.
" I voted against the idiots in the legislature"
I note you did NOT call out the Emmisary for being rude!
The majority of middle and lower income workers would have more of their paycheck to invest in themselves if the current NC gov't hadn't put policies in place that have raised the sales tax burden and kept workers wages.
It is incredibly naive to believe that lower corporate taxes benefit the average middle or low income worker.
Texas has no income tax but has property taxes that rival those of the Northeast and has insanely high tolls on many of their roads (want to fly out of DFW airport; better have $20 for the toll road to get in!)
North Carolina has been attractive to business and innovators because of the presence of a the presence of higher-education institutions and and overall investment in education.
Mississippi has low taxes too...I don't see people flocking there.
"The majority of middle and lower income workers would have more of their paycheck to invest in themselves if the current NC gov't hadn't put policies in place that have raised the sales tax burden and kept workers wages.'"
""The Emissary quote'"
"No, I'm not keeping more of my paycheck, I'm shelling out more money and getting less for it!
Maybe so, BUT your money is going FURTHER then MOST states.
You MIGHT want to check out the REAL facts.
N.C is in the 2nd TOP bracket on "The relative value of how far $100 goes" at $109.05
That would be much easier to accomplish if we didn't have people moving from nanny states bringing law suits against our government. Our taxes in Union County just went up about 1/3 because of these bullies who moved here and started trouble.
Oh, you men like John Edwards, N.C native and Senator.
His "law suits" cost us a lot and the result was doctors LEAVING the state.
We are just now recovering.
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