Improving Business Climate

By Jack Mobley

Businesses are leaving because they are over taxed and over regulated.

The loss of these organizations to other states means a loss of private sector jobs, the source of government revenues through taxes. Instead of creating an environment conducive to free enterprise and job creation, our state government is making California suitable only for endangered species and those who believe the solutions to our problems exist in government. The exodus of business enterprises leaving California is of Biblical proportions. It doesn't have to be this way.

We can attract businesses back to California by cutting spending, reducing taxes, eliminating unnecessary regulations and still take care of our environment and preserve the unique California way of life. But we have to start now and we have to have legislators who are not afraid to make the hard decisions.

We no longer have the luxury of excess revenues or an unlimited borrowing capacity. Our state is all but bankrupt and the blame is shared evenly by the politicians and the voters. The politicians made poor decisions and we voters kept sending them to Sacramento expecting them to make different choices.

We need new people representing us, people who have created businesses and jobs and who understand what it means to invest everything they have in a dream and who have the will to succeed. Those are the people who will set California back on course. In fact, they are the same people who made California great in the first place.