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Boehner Touts GOP’s Agenda to Remove Barriers to Job Creation as New Report Reaffirms that Uncertainty is Hurting Small Businesses
Case Western Reserve University Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Scott Shane has a new report and a stern warning for the Obama Administration if it wants to help boost job creation: “stop arguing that policy uncertainty doesn’t matter.” The report, co-authored by Shane for the Federal Reserve Bank, details the harmful affect uncertainty stemming from the Obama Administration’s agenda of more “stimulus” spending, tax increases and new regulatory burdens is having on small businesses across America:
“While the downturn and weak recovery certainly had a large negative effect on small business hiring plans, policy uncertainty has exacerbated this effect. In the summer of 2011, the net percentage of small business owners planning to hire would be 6 percentage points higher if it were not for policy uncertainty.
“That is, either 6 percent more small business owners would be planning to hire (or 6 percent more small business owners would not be planning to lay off workers), were policy uncertainty not currently an issue. The results for capital expenditures are very similar.”
As someone who’s run a small business, Congressman Boehner understands firsthand the negative impact that uncertainty can have on job creation. Speaking with reporters in the Capitol, Boehner highlighted the House’s pro-jobs agenda and again urged President Obama to call on Senate Democrats to vote on more than 20 bipartisan House-passed jobs bills:
“This week, the House will pass three additional jobs bills to help create a better environment for private-sector job creation. This is in addition to the 20 bills that we already have sitting over in the United States Senate… And I hope the president… will urge the Senate to move these bipartisan bills as quickly as possible.”
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