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CMTA legislative databaseJobs1st Job Killers
The Coalition for California Jobs believes that protecting and creating jobs in California should be the top priority of policymakers. Economic growth and job creation are the keys to eliminating the state budget deficit, funding important programs like education and improving our quality of life. Unfortunately, there are numerous examples of pending legislation that will kill jobs.
How jobs are killed
Jobs are killed when employers layoff workers or can't afford to hire workers to provide goods and services to consumers. Workers are laid-off (or wages are reduced) if consumers do not buy goods and services from businesses, or because the cost of providing those goods or services has increased to the point where the business is not competitive. Consumers will not buy goods and services if they have less money to spend, or if the goods and services are a lesser value (higher cost/lesser quality) than alternatives in the marketplace. Lower wages and fewer jobs are the result of an employer not being successful in the marketplace when an employer is NOT competitive and/or consumers have no money to spend.
Government kills jobs when it passes laws, rules and regulations that discourage investment and production, that add unnecessary cost and burdens to goods and services, or that make California employers uncompetitive.
Job killer bills make employers less competitive or take resources from consumers.
While there are hundreds of pieces of bad legislation pending in the capitol, there are 51 bills on the 2003 Job Killer list. These bills impose burdensome or unnecessary regulations that increase costs on businesses, create new workplace mandates, increase litigation, expand government at businesses' expense, criminalize inadvertent business error, or impose new or higher fees and taxes.
Below, you will find the CMTA Jobs 1st Job Killers.
| Criminal Penalties for Releases of Prop 65 Chemicals AB 623 (Lieber) Already strict laws prohibiting chemical discharges with hefty civil penalties and private attorney rights of action would become even more punitive, with criminal liability for unknowing and unintended releases. This greatly increases the risks and costs of doing business in California, encouraging companies to leave the state, raising costs to consumers, making employers less competitive, killing jobs. Bill text at www.leginfo.ca.gov | Status Failed passage |
| Alcohol Fee/Tax SB 108 (Romero) Extracts more money from employers to pay for government programs, making employers less competitive, increasing costs to consumers, killing jobs. Bill text at www.leginfo.ca.gov | Status Failed passage |
| Diaper Tax SB 204 (Perata) Increases bureaucracy and the cost of government, increases the cost of products, making employers less competitive, results in less discretionary income for young families with children, killing jobs. Bill text at www.leginfo.ca.gov | Status Failed passage |
| Sales & Use Taxes SB 400 (Florez) Extracts more money from employers to pay for government programs, making employers less competitive and taking resources from consumers, killing jobs. Bill text at www.leginfo.ca.gov | Status Failed passage |
| CEQA Risk Assessments SB 532 (Romero) CEQA already contains the most rigorous environmental protection requirements in the nation. Employers spend billions of dollars annually complying with these tough environmental rules. Unnecessary studies will add more costs, making products and services more expensive, killing jobs. Bill text at www.leginfo.ca.gov | Status Failed passage |
| Crude Oil Tax SB 981 (Soto) Extracts more money from employers to pay for government programs, making employers less competitive, increasing cost of fuel, taking resources from consumers, killing jobs. Bill text at www.leginfo.ca.gov | Status Failed passage |