Voting with their feet

Our friend Earl Glynn of Kansas Watchdog reports on a local entreprenuer moving out of state to save on taxes. And he only had to move 100 feet.

Normally the opening of a new QuikTrip store is not a news item. But, tomorrow the QuikTrip Convenience Store at 27 Southwest Blvd will reopen in Kansas City, Missouri after ”moving” about 100 feet from Kansas to avoid higher taxes and more burdensome regulations in Kansas.

In late August the store closed its operation in Kansas and was torn down. The store was then rebuilt on the same site, but with the store, cash registers, and gasoline tanks on the Missouri side of the state line.

Amendment X: Tax Competition

Our friends Paul Souter at Kansas Watchdog and Steven Allen Adams at West Virginia Watchdog take a look at how their states fared in the 2010 State Business Tax Climate Index.

Kansas becoming less business friendly

W.Va. ranked 37th in "Business Friendliness"