Tempestade Cerebral

Na Tech Central Station, a relação entre o nível de impostos às empresas e a taxa de desemprego (meus destaques):

"Every year, CFO magazine asks financial executives to assess the business-friendliness tax policy of their respective states, which the magazine then compiles and ranks. Ranking in the bottom ten? California, New York, Michigan, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Massachusetts -- the very states that seem to be bleeding jobs. The most recent unemployment figures from the Labor Department put California, Texas, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan all in the bottom ten there, too, all with unemployment rates at 7.0% or higher.

The Small Business Survival Committee also puts out a report ranking the states on business-friendly public policy. In the SBSC report, Ohio ranks 39th, New York 45th and California 46th. Oregon, also with one of the country's highest unemployment rates, ranks 41st.

A 2003 ranking by the Tax Foundation focusing mainly on tax policy and business tells the same story. It puts California 49th, Ohio 47th, and New York 44th.

How well are states with business-friendly public policy doing at attracting and retaining jobs?

The anecdotal evidence suggests they're doing pretty well."

A solução para o desemprego não é a intervenção estatal - através de mais impostos e/ou aumentos arbitrários do salário mínimo nacional. Pelo contrário, a existência de um sistema fiscal mais vantajoso para as empresas é um incentivo à criação de emprego!