{"id":16248,"date":"2012-10-22T17:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16248"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:43:51","slug":"go-west-young-man-just-stop-before-you-hit-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16248\/go-west-young-man-just-stop-before-you-hit-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Go West, Young Man &#8230; Just Stop Before You Hit the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take it from this Californian &#8212; the Golden State is no longer the destination du jour for starry-eyed dreamers looking to turn ambition into fortune. The rest of the west, however, looks pretty good. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/10\/22\/wyoming-south-dakota-rank-among-top-business-friendly-states\/#ixzz2A4AczRqr\" target=\"_blank\">From the <em>Daily Caller<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are looking to start a new business, Wyoming might be a place to consider moving. According to the Tax Foundation\u2019s annual State Business Tax Climate report, Wyoming ranks first among the fifty states for most business-friendly tax code.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Wyoming are South Dakota, Nevada, Alaska, and Florida. Washington, New Hampshire, Montana, Texas and Utah rank in the top ten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you keeping score at home, that&#8217;s eight of the top ten states for business located in the West. And if a pro-energy candidate wins the White House, expect the numbers from those states to become even more impressive, given <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14199\/forget-obamas-energy-scarcity-more-oil-in-three-u-s-states-than-rest-of-the-world-combined\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tremendous amount of resources in the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>California has chosen gilded decline and reaped economic disaster. The rest of the west, however, has chosen freedom. And prosperity is following closely behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take it from this Californian &#8212; the Golden State is no longer the destination du jour for starry-eyed dreamers looking to turn ambition into fortune. The rest of the west, however, looks pretty good. From the Daily Caller: If you are looking to start a new business, Wyoming might be a place to consider moving. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1592,299,582,803,71],"class_list":["post-16248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-business","tag-california","tag-federalism","tag-free-markets","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16250,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}