Muir Woods National Monument, California

You hear conservatives tell it, the key to a job-creating positive business environment is … drum roll … low taxes! So the conservative Tax Foundation will rank the best and worst business climate states:

California and New York are ranked way low (48 and 49, respectively), with New Jersey coming in last at 50. And on the “positive” side, you have Wyoming leading the pack, with Texas at #10.

CNBC has its own rankings, with Texas at #2, and California down at #27 and New York at #36. (These rankings, for example, favor right-to-work anti-union states.)

And how about crazy-ass ALEC?

Yup, poor ol’ California and New York and pretty much every Blue State totally sucking.

And Chief Executive Magazine really gets its hate on for California:

California is the Worst State for Business for the Tenth Year in a Row

But all those rankings really mean squat when compared to actual economic growth. So does being low-tax and “business friendly” actually equate to great economic growth? Um, no.