From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   This was totally unexpected!   
      
   More WA businesses considering leaving the state due to high taxes.   
      
   "The latest Association of Washington Business quarterly survey shows   
   bad news on the economic front, with 44% of business leaders saying they   
   are considering moving their personal residence out of state and   
   businesses indicating they are now more than twice as likely – 30% to   
   14% – to expand outside the state than within it.   
      
   The results of AWB’s winter survey are based on 429 responses collected   
   by email from business owners and operators across the state between   
   Jan. 12 and Feb. 2.   
      
   “Washington employers signaled a continuing collapse in confidence in   
   the state economy in this quarterly survey, with significant   
   year-over-year deterioration across multiple metrics driven largely by   
   the state’s growing tax burden,” according to the survey’s executive   
   summary.   
      
   I wonder if part of the “no hire, no fire” economy is due to uncertainty   
   created by ham-fisted blue-state governance." - Posted by Stephen Green   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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