You oppose tax incentives
From the Business Journal of Portland - 9:57 AM PDT Friday:
"Business Pulse Survey: You oppose tax incentives
"In last week's Business Pulse Survey, we asked: Should government expand the use of tax incentives to entice companies to relocate or expand here?
"Your response: 77 percent said no, 22 percent said yes and 1 percent were undecided."
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August 19, 2005 |
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Posted by: Gil Johnson | Aug 19, 2005 10:25:04 PM
Inasmuch as these polls are entirely unscientific, I wonder if the results on this question mean there are more people reading and responding to blueoregon than to the Business Journal's web site.
I saw Chuck's previous post, followed his instructions and voted.
Posted by: PanchoPdx | Aug 20, 2005 7:59:38 AM
You can't tell anything from those results. I voted in that poll that I oppose tax incentives, but added the caveat that should instead just reduce taxes across the board.
I think a lot of people feel we should have a level playing field but with a lower overall tax burden.
This poll ignores that segment.
This is the equivalence of an online pushpoll.
Posted by: Chuck Sheketoff | Aug 20, 2005 10:05:22 AM
Other pulse survey results include the total number of votes.This time, the Business Journal did not provide that information.
Yes, this is an unscientific poll and suffers from many defects in design and structure, as do all of the other Business Journal Pulse Surveys. That said, as a group, it is interesting to look at the different results each week.
Posted by: Sid Leader | Aug 20, 2005 10:53:02 AM
Business should be run like government.
If they can't make it alone, close em down!
It's called capitalism.
Look it up!
Nike w/o government subsidies? Still wealthier than most Africans nations combined.
Posted by: Steve | Aug 21, 2005 9:44:25 AM
"Business should be run like government. If they can't make it alone, close em down!"
1) Tax incentives targeted at specific businesses should be shut down in favor of general tax incentives targeting industries we want.
2) I only wish government would shut down ideas that can't make it alone.
Posted by: jim karlock | Aug 21, 2005 4:20:15 PM
Posted by: Steve | Aug 21, 2005 9:44:25 AM:
1) Tax incentives targeted at specific businesses should be shut down in favor of general tax incentives targeting industries we want.
JK:
Do you mean like in Japan, just after the war, where they targeted heavy industry for their post war recovery?
Of course that new, unfavored, upstart, Sony was denied an export license for money to buy the right to build transistors under the Bell labs patent. That probably prevented Sony from marketing the world’s first transistor radio (Sony was second).
Is this what you advocate here, or do you know of a government agency that has a WORKING crystal ball?
Wouldn’t it be better for the government to just provide the best basic services around and let things happen?
Posted by: Steve :
2) I only wish government would shut down ideas that can't make it alone.
JK:
I hope you mean “quit supporting” instead of “shut down”.
Thanks
JK
Posted by: jim karlock | Aug 25, 2005 5:00:25 AM
Taxpayers won today.
Saveportland.com thanks Commissioners Adams, Leonard and Saltzman for their vote against a ten year property tax abatement for the Alexan project.
Commissioner Leonard correctly observed that the taxpayers could get better value for the city’s taxpayers by collecting property taxes on the Alexan and using the money to supply affordable housing, rather than giving an abatement.
Further thanks are in order to all of those that worked against and testified against this massive tax giveaway to an out of town developer. (By some accounts the actual, per square foot income, to the developer, would have been more from the subsidized units than from penthouses.)
And thanks to local blogs and talk radio shows.
We hope that this will be the start of a new trend of demanding value for the tax dollar, whether being spent or abated.
See www.saveportland.com for additional information about tax abatements.
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Posted by: Jeff Alworth | Aug 19, 2005 9:16:30 PM
"Business Pulse Survey: You oppose tax incentives"
And by a larger margin than we approve of tax cuts. Go figure.