Another business climate survey gives Texas an A+ and California and F

Chuck Devore:

Another business climate survey was just released, and, in what won’t be a shock for regular Breitbart readers, it assigns Texas a grade of A+ for small business friendliness with California netting an F. What makes this survey unique is both the surveyor, Thumbtack, and the methodology.

Thumbtack links nearly half a million service providers, from accountants to blacksmiths to Hebrew translators with customers online. For three years they’ve partnered with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to complete an annual business friendliness survey, the most recent one covering 38 states in 82 metro areas with 12,632 business owners taking the time to complete the online form. For Thumbtack, the business friendliness survey serves a greater purpose than simply comparing states’ attitude towards entrepreneurship, they hope to, as Thumbtack Chief Economist Jon Lieber said, “Spur states to improve their policies towards small business.”
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Illinois and Rhode Island also got an F.  What makes this survey interesting is that it goes through the service providers who are usually stuck with the compliance with regulations.