Brady Launches Statewide Tour to Bring Jobs Back to Illinois
October 22, 2009 by Brady for Illinois
Filed under Featured, Press Releases
Plan includes tax credits for businesses that create new jobs
Senator Bill Brady, Republican candidate for Governor, launched a statewide jobs tour in Chicago today unveiling his plan to bring jobs back to Illinois and keep more jobs from leaving the state.
“We need a clean break from the anti-business mentality of the past,” said Brady, the only candidate with both business and legislative experience. “We need to reduce the cost of doing business in Illinois and make Illinois competitive again.”
Brady made the announcement today at 83rd and Stewart in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood, the proposed site for the city’s second Wal-Mart. Sen. Brady introduced legislation in May that would allow the store, and other big box retailers like it, to be built despite roadblocks in the Chicago City Council. In addition to construction jobs, each mega-retailer location would generate an estimated 400 new jobs.
Brady’s jobs plan includes:
* Spurring job creation by allowing a new 10 percent tax credit, up to $2,100, for businesses that create new jobs in Illinois, supplementing Illinois’ EDGE tax credit.
* Retaining jobs in Illinois and attracting new investment by lowering the cost of doing business in Illinois, including cutting taxes and fees by a billion dollars by eliminating the sales tax on gasoline, rolling back the $300 million in business taxes and fees imposed by the Blagojevich administration and eliminating the state estate tax.
* Balancing Illinois’ budget and living within our means by implementing managed care for Medicaid recipients, abolishing the bureaucracy of the State Board of Education, eliminating high priced administrators and excessive overtime in the Department of Corrections and lowering the cost of workers compensation in Illinois.
* Dedicating the motor fuel tax to preserving and modernizing Illinois’ infrastructure in an on-going capital improvements program.
“Our unemployment rate is now the highest in the last quarter century. Illinois has lost 700,000 jobs in the last ten years,” said Brady. “Only Ohio and Michigan have lost more jobs than we have. Illinois ranks 48th in the nation in economic development. That is not a blueprint for success and prosperity for Illinois. I will bring jobs back for Illinois and Illinois families and make Illinois work again.”
The Illinois unemployment rate in September rose to 10.5 percent, the state’s highest rate since October 1983. Nationally, the September unemployment rate increased to 9.8 percent.
“The people of Illinois deserve a leader who understands the bottom line,” said Brady, a Bloomington businessman, “and they deserve a leader who will fight for their economic security.”
Idella Robertson on Sun, 1st Nov 2009 5:42 am
What is your stance on all the changes the Obama administration is currently making, in my opinion, there seems to be too much power being transfered to the federal gov. How can you as a governor help to change that? Why do you want to move from being our senator to being our governor? I know this question may be a hard one, but with the nation in the state it is in and the plans that the current administration is implimenting, how do we know that we can trust what you are saying to us. We, as “the people” have heard lots of lip service from many polititions, only to find out later that there were many hidden agenda’s and special intrests on thier list. We are looking for truth, honesty,and true patritism to our country, the way it was origionally intended. For me personally, its not even about the party represented anymore, its about charater and values of the person that reprsents me. I feel that I am not the only one that feels frustrated in our current situation, many people have been affected in the job market and my heart goes out to them. We as a state and as communities need to help one another whenever possible. I love living in the midwest, wouldnt want to be anywhere else. Im afraid of all the bills being introduced at this time, many of them are not for the individual state nor for the people within it. They have the potential to change how we in the midwest{as well as the rest of the nation) live. Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion, I just hope it doesnt fall on deaf ears. Sincerely, Lynn.
Torsten Zeeb on Tue, 3rd Nov 2009 11:24 pm
income taxes is no good,there is enough sales taxes in ILL..
since when do public services need a unions,cost too much for thee voting taxpayers.
public servants need to take a pay cuts of 75%,that saves the taxers tons of money.
Good luck!!!!!!!