REP NUGENT PRESS RELEASE
“If you want to know why small businesses
aren’t hiring, ask a small business owner. ”
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Rep. Rich
Nugent (FL-05) announced today a new, coordinated effort to gather ideas
specifically from small business owners:
“Over the past year, I’ve been
steadily meeting with small business owners to ask them what they think needs to
be done. Pretty much all of them, from New Port Richey and Spring Hill to the
Villages and Lakeland, all say the same things – customer demand is persistently
weak, loans are harder to come by than they used to be, and they have no idea
what their tax and regulatory burden is going to be eighteen months from now.
But the more you talk to business owners, the more it becomes clear that there
are also concrete policies that affect individual industries and companies
differently. Construction, in other words, isn’t necessarily facing the same
challenges as small manufacturing. The key to helping businesses create good,
sustainable jobs is drilling down into those differences and changing things
that aren’t working.
“The question we are posing to
small business owners all over the district is this: What would it take for you
to create one new position in your company? Is it a new line of credit from the
bank? Is it new orders hitting a certain level? Is it a specific tax rate? A
certain regulatory filing requirement? A state law? A federal law? Or just
plain confidence about where things are going?
“We’re going to compile the
suggestions we get from small business owners and we’re going to get the word
out about what they need to put Floridians back to work. At the end of the day,
if you want to know why small businesses aren’t hiring, ask a small business
owner. Don’t ask think tanks or college professors, ask the people on the
ground who are actually weighing the real-life consequences and making the
real-life decisions.
“I am sending letters out to
our local small businesses this morning asking them for their input. In the
meantime, for any small business owners who want to go ahead and submit their
ideas, just send an email to FloridaJobs@mail.house.gov. We
need to hear from you.”
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