The magazine pulled data from 10 sources to compile its ranking, which is based on six factors that are important for businesses — costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life. Business costs, including labor, energy and taxes, are weighted most heavily.
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obviously the forbes folks have never actually TRIED to run a business in the people's republic of maryland.
Then why are so many businesses leaving MD? My friend rents uhauls they aren't for local moving but out of state!What about the "quote business trips the gov" is taking and we are paying for and no results~~! This is a no brainer you can spin the numbers any way you want to, he sold out Catalyst RX based in rockville that provided RX to state employees and retirees and said goodbye to the tax dollars to Md...He sold it out early from may not july to Express Scripts in Mo YOU CAN SPIN THE NUMBERS ANY WAY YOU WANT THEM TO REFLECT, THE GOV IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD AT THIS
I'll tell you why businesses are leaving MD. Forbes made a grave error in their assessment. Forbes officials have not seen the samplings of the business closure list that has been published on SBYnews. And so that leaves it to me to help set the record straight.
First thing in the morning I am going to send the Local Business Closure List to Forbes magazine and invite the gentlemen to a personal tour of our Tri-County area. I'll even pay to rent the passenger van for the occasion so that I can take these officials to the businesses former sites.
Forbes is connected and is buddy buddy with the Washington, DC employees, and yes, they make lots of money and Maryland and Virginia benefit money wise from DC employment! The rest of the country is suffering, though. Manufacturing is not government, so there's that. There is retail, but without manufacturing jobs, retail gets flat. We need to shrink government to boost manufacturing to increase the tax base and get the debt reduced so we don't spend all our money on interest.
DUH.
But it won't happen in my lifetime unless we revolt. In spades.
O'Malley da man!
Was that Forbes or Madd magazine?
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