Bill Text: CA ACR83 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Employment: improving economic opportunities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-11-30 - Died at Desk. [ACR83 Detail]
Download: California-2009-ACR83-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 83 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Logue
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Conway, Emmerson, Jeffries, Knight,
Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, and Villines)
JUNE 26, 2009
Relative to employment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 83, as introduced, Logue. Employment: improving economic
opportunities.
This measure would encourage state government to make the
retention of private sector employment and the creation of new
employment opportunities its highest priority, and it would declare
the Legislature's leading role in restoring the business climate in
the state to encourage economic growth.
Fiscal committee: no.
WHEREAS, California currently finds itself in the middle of an
economic crisis more severe than that experienced by most of the
nation; and
WHEREAS, The world and national economies have contributed to an
unstable job market, and California's profound private sector job
losses are exacerbated by excessive regulation and taxation; and
WHEREAS, These statements may be verified by the Employment
Development Department report that shows a loss of 95,300 private
sector jobs while adding 36,400 public sector jobs between June 2007
and June 2008; and
WHEREAS, California has lost 536,000 manufacturing jobs since
2000, a 28-percent decrease in such employment over the decade, and,
in the past year alone, California has lost 100,600 manufacturing
jobs; and
WHEREAS, California is losing more manufacturing jobs than other
western states such as Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and Oregon; and
WHEREAS, In 2009, the nonpartisan National Tax Foundation ranked
California 48th for business tax climate among the 50 states, and
this same foundation ranked California 49th for individual tax rates,
and 43rd for sales tax rates, all before our recent sales tax
increase enacted by the Legislature; and
WHEREAS, The Milken Institute reports that the cost of doing
business in California is 24 percent higher than the national
average; and
WHEREAS, According to the California Business Executive Attitudes
survey poll of 1,113 California business executives, 42 percent of
those employers rated government regulation as a primary factor in
creating a disadvantage for California companies; 28 percent
identified the ability to hire and maintain a qualified work force as
a problem for their business; and 26 percent reported that high
labor costs in the state make it difficult to create jobs; and
WHEREAS, The Washington-based Tax Foundation ranks California as
having the nation's sixth-highest state and local tax burden in 2008,
again before taking into account the income, sales, and vehicle tax
increases enacted by the Legislature in February 2009; and
WHEREAS, Business may thrive in a stable and predictable
environment, and unchecked government bureaucracy leads to
instability; and
WHEREAS, Private sector jobs generate stable tax revenues that
will greatly assist the Legislature's attempt to balance the state
budget; and
WHEREAS, In recognition of all of the foregoing and of the
undeniable fact that private sector jobs are the engine that will
ultimately turn this economy around; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature, recognizing the will of the
voters as expressed in the May 19, 2009, special election, in
opposing increased taxes and borrowing and witnessing the
unprecedented loss of jobs in this state, calls upon every
instrumentality of state government to immediately make the retention
of existing private sector employment and the creation of new
private sector employment its highest priority; and be it further
Resolved, That the Legislature will itself take a leading role in
restoring California's business climate to a status that invites
entrepreneurs and private sector employers and their employees to
retain, locate, and create new jobs in California, and to reject all
legislation that will result in withering, reducing, or repelling the
creation of new private sector jobs in the state or that will grow
state government in a manner that increases the tax and regulatory
burden upon taxpayers as well as those who seek to create and retain
jobs in our state; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
