Health & Fitness
California's Inaction is an Anti-Business Attitude That Must Change
California can be pro-business and therefore pro-opportunity if we small business people develop and show samples and case studies to demonstrate the real world changes we need to see, to create jobs.
Rankings released by Forbes, among others note California as being anything but business friendly, if anything they remark it as anti-business-- driving businesses away. For example, there is a minimum franchise tax of $800, regardless of how well the company does then stack unto that more taxation coupled with outdated regulations and a burdensome paperwork process. I am aware of individuals who have been working at dealing with paperwork issues through the state for months largely because of confusion on the part of the state paperwork processors and aware of others who are going the route of sole proprietor to avoid the state's lack of incentives to incorporate. Incorporating provides a number of benefits, specifically legal protection, but these individuals cannot afford it. And in a time still reeling from recession, at a time where jobs are still scarce-- changing this is a matter of common sense. There are elected officials who have remarked how they did not see how California is anti-business and then fail to listen in on the conversation. So, clearly, it has to start with us-- the job seekers and the job creators. We must come together through a non-politically focused group to propose and put pressure on the political body/government to foster solutions. We the people, have those solutions. The Assembly and Senate do not act because of the divisiveness but if we can unite in one voice, they will comply for sake of necessity instead of just a political agenda.
Let's re-start the conversation. Not just about taxes and regulation but how specific businesses can create specific jobs. Specific case studies and samples. That's the pressure that we need to be giving. We need to take the political rhetoric out of the equation. This is a conversation about results.
There are a lack of experienced business people on the Assembly. They spout abstract anti-business climate rhetoric but I have not seen a single non-political/bipartisan solution from any of them. There is more failure than success. And it does not help that the Assembly's idealism by rhetoric is matched only by their inaction. So, We must act. When I ran for Assembly, I had solid solutions championed by businesses. And I have not stopped putting them forward. Join me. The job(s) we help create, may be our own. Let's do it.
