Two very interesting articles today. First, Florida ranked #2 nationally behind Texas as the best state for business according to chiefexecutive.net. By the way, California ranked #50 which is not surprising from the Wall Street Journal article we quoted yesterday. Second, from the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Boca Raton city officials are meeting today to determine what to do about a $5 million budget shortfall. While it is always a good thing to find ways to cut costs, if Florida is so attractive to business, shouldn’t we also be discussing how to recruit more companies into our area to create jobs, and stimulate new projects that will increase our tax revenue ?
In Chief Executive’s eighth annual survey of CEO opinion of Best and Worst States in which to do business, Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, the eighth successive time it has done so. California earns the dubious honor of being ranked dead last for the eighth consecutive year.