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Article: NEW YORK.(Brief Article)
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- Plants Sites & Parks
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- June 1, 2001
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"If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere ..."
For so many years, the business community understood just what the song meant. It was HARD to make it in New York, an uphill climb all the way. Surviving in the Empire State was a badge of honor (maybe) or else an unnecessary headache, depending on how you looked at it.
Either way, those days are long gone.
The state has cut taxes by $100 billion in the last five years. Workers' compensation costs are down 40 percent in that same time. The overall cost of doing business in New York has dropped 33 percent in five years, and Governor George E. Pataki has been pounding the pavement, meeting with ...