Republicans Introduce Private
Sector Job Creation Package
Measures include 10 bills by Senator Dutton to lift
the economic burdens hindering job growth
SACRAMENTO–Senate Republican Leader–elect Bob Dutton (R–Rancho Cucamonga) has introduced 10 bills as part of a 24–bill Republican package to stimulate California’s private sector economy.
The legislation by Senator Dutton and other Republican senators was introduced as part of the emergency session declared by Governor Schwarzenegger to address California’s current fiscal crisis. This year’s budget deficit is an estimated $6 billion through June 2010 and nearly $20 billion by June 2011.
“The only way we’re going to solve California’s fiscal woes is through private sector job creation,” Senator Dutton said. “The difference between our plan and that of my Democrat colleagues is that their job creation proposals continue to increase the size of government.”
A recent editorial by the San Diego Union–Tribune titled “The Jobs Plan That Isn’t”observes that “instead of helping the state’s reeling private sector. The Democrats’ blueprint is almost entirely focused on using taxpayer funds to create government–paid positions.”
“It takes 25 private sector jobs to create just one state job,” Senator Dutton continued. “The only real solution to our problems comes not through making government bigger, but by lifting the burdens that make California the most expensive place to in America for private business to operate.”
Some of Senator Dutton’s proposals during this emergency session include:
- Creating incentives to spur investment and innovation in new private business development. (SBX8 43 and SBX8 44)
- Expanding health care options for private sector employees by conforming state law to federal income tax laws. (SBX8 47)
- Providing incentives to employers who hire someone who has served in the Armed Forces, is on CalWORKS or is receiving unemployment.(SBX8 59)
- Allowing employers and employees to work together in establishing meal and rest periods. (SBX8 70)
- Requiring all regulations that have driven up the cost of doing business in California to be reviewed for their cost-effectiveness and necessity.(SBX8 48)
- Prohibiting California from moving forward on its own to implement a controversial emissions reduction scheme known as cap and trade that would undermine the state’s economic recovery. (SBX8 49)
“Republicans have been talking about private sector job creation for years,” Senator Dutton said. “Unfortunately, many of our ideas have been repeatedly rejected by our Democrat colleagues. If Democrats are serious about solving our state’s budget crisis, I urge them to take another look at our job creation ideas and work across party lines to move these common sense measures forward.”
Of course Sen. Dutton is doing all he can reasonable do to speedup this recovery. Jobs are gold.
However, this state is not open for employers to come here for cheap labor and relaxed labor standards. In this light, several the Senator’s proposals are of concern to me:
1. Allowing employers and employees to work together in establishing meal and rest periods..”California is not Haiti; a labor market in which to shamelessly exploit working people. We have minimal labor standards in this state– such as meals and breaks and many others — that are not to be dismissed so easily.
2. “Requiring all regulations that have driven up the cost of doing business in California to be reviewed…” Likewise, review of all regulations are not acceptable. This is not carte blanche for every corporation to get exactly what they want. We need to be fair to our working class and their families.