{"id":1942,"date":"2006-12-27T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/and_its_not_like_jersey_city_isnt_already_really_happening.html"},"modified":"2006-12-27T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T17:01:31","slug":"and_its_not_lik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/and_its_not_lik.html","title":{"rendered":"And It&#8217;s Not Like Jersey City Isn&#8217;t Already Really Happening*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can certainly see why officials expect such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/future_shock_on.html\">an unprecedented population boom<\/a> in years to come when the economy here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12272006\/news\/regionalnews\/n_y__state_of_hock_for_local_business_regionalnews_kenneth_lovett.htm\">so conducive to growth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The cost of doing business in New York is a whopping $35.3 billion more than the national average, an alarming new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>New York businesses are paying significantly more than their out-of-state counterparts in state and local taxes, as well as for health care, energy and workers&#8217; compensation, said the report, released yesterday by the state Business Council&#8217;s Public Policy Institute.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Taxes pose the greatest burden for New York&#8217;s businesses. Previous studies have shown New Yorkers pay the highest combined state and property taxes in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>New York businesses pay $8.1 billion more in property taxes, $14.4 billion more in income taxes and $2.8 billion more in corporate business taxes.<\/p>\n<p>New York businesses also pay nearly $7 billion more in energy costs, $1.7 billion more in health care and $1.3 billion in additional workers&#8217; comp, compared with the national average.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*At least <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/25014\/index.html\">I thought I heard that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can certainly see why officials expect such an unprecedented population boom in years to come when the economy here is so conducive to growth: The cost of doing business in New York is a whopping $35.3 billion more than the national average, an alarming new study shows. New York businesses are paying significantly more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}