Sunday, March 1, 2009

Georgia Republican's Own Economic Stimulus

Here in Georgia, the legislature has introduced their own economic stimulus which seeks to help small businesses and the unemployed.

“We believe the hard-working people of Georgia -- not big government -- are the key to our economic prosperity,” said [Rep. Tom] Graves, R-Ranger. “If consumers and investors have confidence in the economic environment, then spending, investing and job creation will occur.”

Atlanta Business Chronicle, Feb. 18, 2009

The bill gives tax credits to small businesses which hire the unemployed. It will eventually phase out the corporate income tax. Small businesses in Georgia account for 98 per cent of all employers in the state. Legislators hope this bill will result in increased confidence in Georgia's economy, thereby attracting more business -- and thus more jobs -- to the state.

More jobs = less unemployment, to make it simple for any government weanies who might be reading this.

Unlike Obama's pork laden "stimulus" -- which only stimulates the growth of big government -- this legislation will actually help Georgia's economy with real, long lasting results.

See what states can do when the feds leave them alone? And these were evil Republicans who introduced this legislation.

The left may want to portray businesses as evil and greedy but as Neil Boortz says, if you think rich people are evil, go get a job from a poor person.

(HT - Herman Cain's Intelligent Thinkers Movement)

1 comment:

Soapbox Jill said...

Deb, You are so lucky to have pro-business legislators. Here, in Wisconsin, our tax-happy governor and majority Dems just passed a bill of over $1 billion in new tax provisions! We're moving to Georgia when we retire.