June 7, 2006

How About If I Just Post This Without Comment?

Filed under: Economy, Taxes & Government — TBlumer @ 1:07 pm

Willisms does have some good analysis of this government-supplied GDP growth map.

Since I’m in Ohio, I’ll hold my tongue, lest say something I regret about the worthless sc ….. I’ll stop.

StateGDPs

11 Comments

  1. Drop the focus on manufacturing and tell your kids to get “smaht”

    Comment by Kevin Irwin — June 7, 2006 @ 3:57 pm

  2. Will only takes tax policy into consideration, when he should also consider cost of living and cost of doing business. Those are the significant hurdles that businesses encounter when doing business in Massachusetts. Notice that there is a higher level of GSP in states which have massive plots of empty (cheap) land? That’s no coincidence.

    Comment by Kevin Irwin — June 7, 2006 @ 4:07 pm

  3. #1, Plenty of “smaht” people work in mfg, and the demands for smahts are increasing.

    #2, Points well taken, but whose fault is it that the cost of doing biz is so high and difficult? As to land, maybe it’s because I’m usually driving at might, but there seems to be a lot of undeveloped real estate between Providence and Worcester, and Providence and Baastin.

    Comment by TBlumer — June 7, 2006 @ 5:13 pm

  4. The cost of living is so high here because it is among the most desireable places to live in the US.

    Plus, the land between Worcester and Boston is reserved for golf courses.

    Comment by Kevin Irwin — June 7, 2006 @ 5:44 pm

  5. #4 that’s why I didn’t ID the area between Worcester and Boston, just the two Providential parts of the triangle.

    As to desirability, since you mentioned it, why is MA’s population declining? it couldn’t be because NH is more “desirable,” could it?

    Comment by TBlumer — June 7, 2006 @ 5:54 pm

  6. It’s surprising that Alaska is in the bottom quintile, considerig the “windfall oil profits” that everyone keeps yammering about.

    Comment by Jason Sonenshein — June 7, 2006 @ 7:45 pm

  7. #6, I have theories on that, but really can’t comment knowledgeably.

    Comment by TBlumer — June 7, 2006 @ 8:02 pm

  8. If anything, you’ll see the oil companies represented as part of Texas’ GSP.

    The area between Providence and Boston is actually pretty heavily settled now. We kept all the industry on the north shore, and left the south shore for lawns and cul-de-sacs.

    Comment by Kevin Irwin — June 7, 2006 @ 8:53 pm

  9. #8, I think they are able to track commerce by state regardless of where HQ is located. It must be an awesome process.

    Comment by TBlumer — June 7, 2006 @ 9:59 pm

  10. The bitter harvest of the Bush/Taft junta.

    Bush has given us nothing but slogans - maybe we should change our name from Ohio to Iraq.

    Comment by save_the_rustbelt — June 15, 2006 @ 10:50 pm

  11. #10, Bush’s tax cuts are the only reason OH’s GDP is positive. Nice try, though.

    Comment by TBlumer — June 15, 2006 @ 11:53 pm

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