CNN Small Business has Des Moines as the Number 8 mid-sized city in America to launch a small business. Dubuque, Waterloo and Ames are ranked eight, seventeen and eighteen among smaller cites.
Four cities in the top 50. That is eight percent of the total. Considering that Iowa is the 30th largest state, I’d say we are punching way over our weight. So why do some people persist in saying that somehow Iowa’s tax rates are making us less competitive from an economic development standpoint?
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