They also do not represent entrepreneurial organizations or businesses. When was the last time you heard them promulgating policies for small businesses or running programs for small businesses? This organization is lost in the past and focuses on the political lobbying of NO, rather than lobbying for what we can do and how we can help small businesses to grow and large businesses to change and adapt for the future.

I’d ask you to look at the item State Rankings of the number of Government Employees (Full time equivalent state and local government employees per 100 residents) WI ranks #7 at 5.03. I’d also ask you to look at State Rankings of State and Local Government 5 year spending trends (Index of percentage increase vs. U.S. state and local trends) WI ranks #5. What this indicates is that government efficiency is higher than elsewhere and that the expenditures have not increased at the rate that 45 other states have over the past 5 years. This too me is a positive indicator of what government is doing.

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The problem is that these investment credits are truly small potatoes compared to the cap. gains tax. Plus, they are targeted at biotech firms that are more likely than not to fail, or get bought out by Big Pharma (East Coast). Thy are not targeted at every business looking to set up or expand in WI.

For an entrepreneur, the biggest obstacle is startup capital and associated costs. In WI, you have a disincentive to startup a business that will generate capital gains.

As far as the education spending per capita, yes we are high, but my own intuition states that all of the graduates of the sciences, engineering, IT, mathematics, etc. are leaving when they graduate; go where there is opportunity as the report said.

Bottom line is this: crow all you want about WMC, but realize that at the end of the day is that their problems are ALL of our problems; and this state’s government is in desperate need of a makeover. Businesses fear government that moves in manners that are ham-fisted in nature.

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WMC can encourage all they want, but it won’t do any good if the folks in charge keep fighting them on it.

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