The 7/12/2011 Boston Globe published LTEs from both Sylvia Bokor and myself responding to their July 8, 2011 story on how New Hampshire is luring businesses away from Massachusetts using the sneaky tactic of — get this — lower taxes and fewer regulations!

(The Boston Globe called a New Hampshire official a “thief” for using these as a selling points.)

Here’s my letter:

WHEN JOBS GO NORTH
Liberator, not thief
July 12, 2011

RE “New Hampshire’s secret salesman luring Bay State firms across the line,” Page A1, July 8: If Michael Bergeron can get businesses to defect from Massachusetts because of lower taxes and fewer regulations, then I’d call him a liberator, not a “thief”!

Paul Hsieh, Sedalia, Colo.

Here’s Sylvia’s letter:

WHEN JOBS GO NORTH
N.H. right to avoid overregulation
July 12, 2011

MICHAEL BERGERON, the New Hampshire business recruiter who is enticing Massachusetts businesses across the state line, evidently understands the importance of freeing businesspeople from the onerous regulations that are strangling our economy (“New Hampshire’s secret salesman luring Bay State firms across the line,” Page A1, July 8). If such consequences do not open the eyes of other business-choking states, they deserved to be vacated by businesspeople.

Sylvia Bokor, Albuquerque

This is the original story we’re both replying to:

New Hampshire’s secret salesman luring Bay State firms across the line
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff / July 8, 2011

CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire pays Michael Bergeron to be a full-time thief, sending him across the border in an unmarked black sedan to poach Massachusetts companies…

I’m pleasantly surprised that the Boston Globe would publish two out-of-state LTEs (and both on the free-market side) on this issue!