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- Subject: Re: Anita Hill to Head EEOC
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 16:53:58 GMT
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- In <1992Nov15.064308.18510@eskimo.com>, Dennis Wicks writes:
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- >In article <BxnyFv.4nD@apollo.hp.com> goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman)
- >>In article <Bxn8ox.KKz@acsu.buffalo.edu> v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Danie
- >>...
- >>>But, as Michael Kinsley has pointed out, the whole idea of enterprise zones
- >>>is inherently unconservative. The government is trying to get capital to go
- >>>where it doesn't want to. This sounds like-industrial policy! ...
- >>
- >> "Economist" called enterprise zones "the Republican version of big
- >> goverment waste". I tend to agree.
- >>
- >Sound like a good description to me. The people that live in the
- >"enterprise zones" don't have the skills needed to get many of
- >the new jobs. Oh, a janitor or two, and maybe some jobs on the
- >loading dock. But the best jobs will be taken by people
- >commuting _in_ from the suburbs! The people that need the jobs
- >and the training will not benefit much, if at all. But we
- >will be subsidizing some very nice new facilities for a few
- >businesses.
-
- The concept is a good one; practical implementation is probably quite another.
- The government *might* be better off using the money for educating inner city
- youths; I'm not sure.
-
- There are ripple effects to "enterprise zones," even if the suburbanites take
- most of the skilled jobs. There will still be a growing sector to support
- these people (restaurants for the lunch crowd, for example) that could employ
- people who actually *live* in the zone. There would also be new construction.
- Construction jobs pay reasonably well and don't exactly require a Ph.D. from
- Ivy League U. I'm not sure that I like the "set aside" quotas for "disad-
- vantaged contractors," but if ever there was a time and place for it, this
- would be it--especially if the contractor hired (say) 50% or more from the
- "enterprise zip code."
-
- I see some merit to enterprise zones, but they need to be done in a way that
- would *work*. I'm not a fan of Big Government, but I'm not opposed to reason-
- able plans that will work. In a perfect world, these zones would be created
- at a state level, but perhaps *federal* tax breaks are needed if the zones will
- ever be attractive to business. If the government gives the business a tax
- break, then it has the right to determine how the business has to *earn* the
- tax break--after all, no one is *forcing* the business to accept the tax break,
- are they?
-
- Tim Irvin
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