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To: aladin who wrote (42718)	5/7/2004 1:59:54 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793716

The Hawaii legislature just ended their session. Our Workmans comp situation is worse than Californias. The employers were asking for a law to be passed to investigate the fraud. So what do they get? A Union backed law to investigate employer fraud! No wonder our Business over here is so bad. Self-Congragulatory Post - The Agitator blog Several weeks ago, I pointed out that the states most likely to lose jobs to outsourcing also happen to be the states with the crappiest tax and regulatory schemes, crappy meaning "hostile to business." A piece at FEE points to a new report from the National Association of Manufacturers that further makes the case: The central finding by NAM is this: “While manufacturers have many challenges in the current global environment, it is the finding of this report that domestically imposed costs—by omission or commission of federal, state, and local governments—are damaging manufacturing more than any foreign competitor and adding at least 22.4 percent to the cost of doing business from the United States.” ...Here are some other findings: 1) “The U.S. corporate tax burden reduces cost competitiveness by 5.6 percentage points”; 2) “U.S. employee benefit costs are higher than most of its major competitors”; 3) “The regulatory compliance burden on U.S. manufacturers is the equivalent of a 12 percent excise tax”; 4) “Pollution abatement alone reduces U.S. cost competitiveness by at least 3.5 percentage points.” Want to keep jobs in the U.S.? Tell your Congressman to ease the burdens on business.

To: aladin who wrote (42718)	5/7/2004 2:00:41 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 793716

There usually is a lag between good emplyment numbers and popular acceptance of the recovery fact. Remember the dems have been talking outsourcing, protectionism and tax cuts for the rich forever and ad nauseum. It will take a couple of months to get those folks to recover from that assault. And a couple of months for iraq to show some progress that the average guy can see. Mike