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| As a small businessman and former executive in large businesses, I understand how economic and business decisions are made. Unfortunately, many of our elected officials don’t, or else choose to ignore the unintended consequences of well-intended legislation, in order to appear to be acting in the best interests of the electorate. | ||
| If you raise the minimum wage above the levels of your neighbors, you drive jobs to your neighbors. | ||
You can’t fix the (broken) healthcare system by penalizing your largest employers…you just drive jobs away. (There are better ways of addressing these problems). See my healthcare positions. |
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| If you use fair market value assessments without really reducing the real estate tax rate (to generate tax increases no greater that the CPI) you contribute to the problem of unaffordable housing. See my tax positions. |
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| If you tax a business, you tax the electorate because businesses just pass the tax along to the consumer. It is a regressive tax and falls most heavily on those who might not otherwise be subject to regular taxes. | ||
| If you over-regulate small business, you drive them out of business…and they provide as much as 80% of the jobs in the nation! | ||
| If you use Eminent Domain to transfer private property to private individuals for private gain, under the guise of “public purpose”, you violate the constitution and you are guilty of (wrongly legalized) theft. | ||
| If you artificially freeze prices for five years, you create sticker shock when reality sets in. (Don’t put all the blame on BG&E…the politicians and the PSC created this debacle). | ||
| Calling an outright give-away to the State’s largest contractors, “a Fair Wage bill” is political corruption at its worst. (If you liked Haliburton’s contracts in IRAQ, you’ll love the so-called “Fair Wage” bill). | ||
Copyright © 2006 John R. Austin |
