Small Business Group Issues 'Small Business Survival Index 2000'

The Small Business Survival Committee (SBSC) has published the "Small Business Survival Index 2000." This fifth annual report ranks the states according to how friendly their public policy environments are toward small businesses and entrepreneurship.

The states are scored according to 16 measures: top personal income tax rate, top capital gains tax rate on individuals, top corporate income tax rate, state and local property taxes, state and local sales taxes, state death taxes, average state unemployment tax rate, health insurance tax rate, electric utilities tax rate, workers' compensation costs, crime rate, right-to-work status, number of state and local government bureaucrats, tax limitation status, Internet access tax, and state gas taxes. These are tied into one Small Business Survival Index score for each state.

In terms of their policy environment, the most entrepreneur-friendly states under the "Small Business Survival Index 2000" are: 1) South Dakota, 2) Nevada, 3) Wyoming, 4) New Hampshire, 5) Texas, 6) Florida, 8) Alabama, 9) Michigan, 10) Mississippi, 11) Tennessee, 12) Alaska, 13) Indiana, 14) Missouri, and 15) South Carolina.

In contrast, the most anti-entrepreneur policy environments are offered by the following: 37) Vermont, 38) Iowa, 39) California, 40) New York, 41) North Carolina, 42) Maine, 43) New Jersey, 44) Oregon, 45) Montana, 46) Ohio, 47) Minnesota, 48) New Mexico, 49) Rhode Island, 50) Hawaii, and 51) District of Columbia.

A full copy of the "Small Business Survival Index 2000" is available on SBSCís website at www.sbsc.org. SBSC is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit small business advocacy group with more than 60,000 members across the nation.

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