IEEE-USA LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT...PA

IEEE-USA ^ | Sept 2,2005 | dat mon

[airborne]

Well, it looks like the fine folks of PA agree. The lawsuit against the pay raise is going to shake the foundations!

And a lot of politicians are going to give up the raise, or give up the job.

[indthkr]

Mindboggling.

At the same time PA is supposedly trying to establish itself as a major nanotech development center in the U.S. Hopefully, any potential entreprenures will read the fine print in state law.

If anything, the situation should be completely reversed. If a state really wants to spur tech, they should give income tax breaks to people who do engineering (not their companies). I would add the caveat that the people getting the tax breaks be U.S. citizens.

Taxes should be increased on people/workers whose work output is zero-sum and not subject to international competition (lawyers principally).