New York businesses get shafted as Albany showers $5.5B, endless aid on Idaho’s Micron

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New York businesses get shafted as Albany showers $5.5B, endless aid on Idaho’s Micron

Every company in the state should apply “the Micron test” to identify all the ways New York makes it artificially difficult to do business here.

nypost.com

Horchul needs to get booted!

This here even proves it:

 

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Because most business owners are intelligent, NYS MUST offer money for them to come here.
My wife and I own 2 businesses in NYS and I know several other business owners.
It is truly amazing how things are done in other states. Just a mile South of where I live, taxes are less, regulations are less, leases are less........

 

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Because most business owners are intelligent, NYS MUST offer money for them to come here.
My wife and I own 2 businesses in NYS and I know several other business owners.
It is truly amazing how things are done in other states. Just a mile South of where I live, taxes are less, regulations are less, leases are less........

I've own/run a side business for two decades now, and I can't compete with other businesses in other states due to taxes. I keep it open only if I decide to move. However I'm only doing the very bare minimal to keep things on the "books". The pandemic didn't affect me, but the regime in NYS has like a bloody leech.

 

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I've own/run a side business for two decades now, and I can't compete with other businesses in other states due to taxes. I keep it open only if I decide to move. However I'm only doing the very bare minimal to keep things on the "books". The pandemic didn't affect me, but the regime in NYS has like a bloody leech.

My wife makes and sells dog and cat "cookies" at craft fairs, farmers markets, festivals....you know, the weirdo vendors that travel the state like gypsies.
So get this.......
If you sell human cookies for human children, there are very few rules.
But, NY considers little cookies made with literally human food....flour, almond flour, baby food......but made specifically for dogs, animal feed.
So, for every flavor she needs to have a company do nutrient tests and they must be labeled on the bag.
Then NYS wants $100 a year for each flavor, size and shape. If she makes ONE batter but makes it into 2 shapes and sells them in 2 sized bags (4oz & 1lb), that's $400 a year for one flavor of dog treats. She makes 6-10 flavors in 2 size bags, but each flavor is one size and shape to save money. So, you get the same size treat for your Chihuahua as for your Great Dane. This alone has lost customers. Again, NYS wants $100 for each shape....made with the same dough.....from the same exact batch.
Again, for human children, no nutritional information and no $100 a year for anything.
These cookies are $8 for 2 dozen little dog treats. They are NOT considered animal feed in any other state. NY is the ONLY state that considers dog TREATS as "animal feed".
As a veterinarian, I have a bit of knowledge about feed vs treats!
Now get this, if the dog cookies are made in another state, you don't need to pay NYS a cent. You still need the nutritional info to sell in NY, which is a one time $75 per flavor payment to a private lab of your choice unless you change ingredients.
This year we rented a kitchen in PA, about 15 miles from our house. This will save us about $3500 that NYS has got from us for 4 years.
Luckily she makes several thousand dollars a week from May-November when the vendor season is.
Sorry for the rant.