State of Vermont Archives: on Corporations

Brooke Paige: Streamline regulations to make Vermont "business friendly"

Brief Outline of the Issues: Business and Employment Prosperity
• Streamline Regulatory Process to reduce time and expense for current and future businesses.
• Make Vermont "Business Friendly" while protecting citizens from unfair or predatory business practices.
• Provide resolution to the competitive inequity brick-and-mortar businesses suffer by state's tax accommodations to competitors operating in "the cloud."
• Provide Tax Incentives for hiring and training veterans and the long term unemployed.

Phil Scott: Agency of Economic Opportunity: help find qualified workers

I'm already hearing some resistance to the idea. I understand this is not how we've always done things. But, for the life of me, I cannot see how we can stand by the status quo, knowing the workforce challenges we face. For years, we have all heard from employers who cannot fill positions. They are pleading for more qualified workers. At the same time, we all know Vermonters who cannot find jobs, or who work two or three jobs to make ends meet.

In this new Agency, we will literally put those in state government who help Vermonters find jobs shoulder-to-shoulder with those helping businesses create jobs.

Patrick Leahy: Amend Constitutional to declare corporations are NOT people

Leahy: The Citizens United decision was a strike at the core of our democracy with few other decisions having such a negative impact on our political process. I advocated for campaign finance reform before the Citizens United decision. As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and on the heels of the disastrous McCutcheon decision, I led the debate for a Constitutional Amendment to rein in the influence of billionaires and make it clear that corporations are NOT people. I fully intend to continue to lead this fight if I am re-elected to the US Senate. Continuing to fight the influence of big money in politics by championing a constitutional amendment to declare once and for all that corporations are not people and overturn the devastating Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

Matt Dunne: State manager to help each manufacturer navigate rules

John MacGovern: Don't demonize private sector that produces jobs & growth

Peter Shumlin: Getting credit to entrepreneurs when they need it grows jobs

Partnering with the Vermont Economic Development Authority, we created an emergency low interest loan program that got credit of up to $100,000 to crippled job creators within days. More than 340 businesses and farms were granted loans, totaling $15.3 million. With liquidity, Vermont ingenuity and hard work, miracle after miracle happened as business after business reopened.

The lesson for Vermont government in helping to grow jobs in Vermont is simple: Getting credit to entrepreneurs when they need it most grows prosperity and grows jobs. In fact, there is nothing standing in the way of Vermont's job creators that cannot be made right by a partnership with state government and expedited risk credit for businesses when others won't lend.