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Biz tax credits for local hires equal less car trips
Conference Survey Questionnaire
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| 1. Would you employ someone from your community if you received a tax credit for doing so, even if that potential employee was not the number one prospect on your list? |
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a. And though some might consider this hiring practice discriminatory, aren’t hiring practices of companies inherently discriminatory on the basis of a selective process that sets up specifications intended to eliminate before a final preference is made toward one candidate?
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| 2. Do you believe local economies and businesses can really thrive by creating more jobs for non-commuting local residents, with a result that contributes to robust local economies, with improved air quality to boot? |
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3. The manifold consequences of utilizing Biz Tax Credits for Local Hires is more than just a solution to the problem of getting there. It’s a change that would build up our neighbors and neighborhoods and increase a company’s bottom line by expanding the number of home-town employees, who would gain increased family time, including time to spend money at local businesses. Is this a win-win for both the employer and the employee?
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4. Hiring local job seekers and getting tax credits in return, contributes to fewer cars on the roads, increases incentives for businesses to establish and promote services central to a community.
If business leaders only want to talk about efficiency and productivity-- and how to get rid of more employees, and outsource jobs for lower pay, workers will remain jobless, families will move out of the area and business sales will decline. Do you agree? |
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| 5. Even if the economy is experiencing a down trend, those who are employed might spend less; but they'll still pay taxes, make purchases and give back to the economy, while an unemployed worker will buy much less, and pay no taxes. Do you agree then that the real solution to increasing jobs nationally is to employ and train US Workers living in the US for skilled jobs as well as investing in new technologies and new businesses in the US? |
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| 6. The Human Employment Tax Credit unlike the Investment Credit spends money on human, not just machine productivity. The government’s Technology Assessment Office has said that a company is deemed to be investing if it purchases a new machine, but not if it pays for the employee training needed to use that machine efficiently. The results to this policy are that we’ve seen service workers on the rise and technological jobs decreasing. Should businesses invest their own capital for employee training? |
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| 7. The Local Job Creation Tax Credit would grant companies tax breaks in proportion to the number of permanent local workers and jobs they add to their payrolls. Companies could still purchase equipment. But, their corporate tax bill wouldn’t be scaled down if they are unable to take on more permanent employees from their own area. So they would have an incentive to hire and train local workers. Would your company support tax breaks that would encourage hiring of local employees? |
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| 8. The Local Job Creation Tax Credit would also give incentives to car manufacturers to base the price of car leases on use, and insurers and state drivers’ licensing rules to create fees on the basis of use. In turn that would encourage drivers to drive less, with a resulting reduction in fossil fuel use and an incentive to produce vehicles that use other sources of energy. The result would be less dependence on fossil fuels and road infrastructure and more time to look at innovative ways to move people around in an environmentally compatible fashion, as well as supporting local job creation, increased rental and sale of local apartments and homes, use of local services and reduction of sprawl. Do you agree? |
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| 9. One way the job pattern we are in now can be measured, that employs less people and still claims to offer great service, is to look at the new retailers: giant home improvement centers—discount stores—who claim that the customer is always within easy reach of an employee who can help them find what they’re looking for. We all know this is a fallacy. If retail businesses like these received local job creation tax credits, they could hire more workers to not only sell, but to reinvigorate cottage industries that make local goods. The result would be less congestion and pollution, and a boost to businesses, which would enhance the local economy. Do you agree? |
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| 10. Since Minnesota businesses are highly taxed, a solution could be a program like the Ohio Job Creation Tax Credit Program, which was established in 1993, and provides a refundable tax credit against a company's corporate franchise, or income tax, based on the state income tax withheld from hiring new, full-time employees. This project would increase state wide employment and could also attract new companies to the state. Would you support this kind of tax incentive program for Minnesota businesses? |
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