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| Summary Number: 18 |
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| Reduce barriers to business success |
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| | "Simplify government controls on businesses." |
| | ". . . straighten out the insane fiscal structure, esp ridiculously expensive tax credits for charitable donations, no wonder we are broke." |
| | "The attitude of business people is that residents are their enemies." |
| | "Tucson has no business identity." |
| | "We are all one social and economic unit, the artificial jurisdictional boundarys are both the result of, and continue, us vs. them arguments." |
| | "The Tucson community needs to support businesses and make it reasonable for them to operate here (instead of putting up obstacles and having negative attitudes)" |
| | "We need to elect people to the AZ legislature who will stop bleeding the state of all that state government needs to do well. We need to support education, infrastructure, etc. and reform the tax code/rates to meet goals. Right now the state is an embarassment. It turns off investors and visitors." |
| | "Elected officials in So. AZ treat economic growth as if its a dirty word, they feel its someone else's job, theirs is to extract as much as they can from development/businesses in taxes and fees to fund social and environmental agendas" |
| | "Tucson - where public jobs flourish and median income is low - is not a good brand" |
| | "Tucson's business community and public sector are by in large old school and don't make accomodations - flex time, telecommuting, job sharing, etc - for the changing demographics." |
| | "Not everyone has vehicles, so need jobs where people live" |
| | "We need better government leaders that will plan for the future, make sure things get done, and build a vibrant, economically sustainable community . . ." |
| | "We are not nimble, dynamic, responsive to taking advantage of opportunities because we have a bureaucratic culture. Initiating and sustaining a series of improvements for lean, accountable, responsive, collaborative government would improve the near and longer term quality of life." |
| | ". . . You also end up competing against unlicensed companies who don't carry worker's comp or carry other insurance and pay their employees under the table because they are not being caught or punished for this." |
