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Jason Stefanich - Tuesday, November 24, 2009   10 Year 0% State Tax for New Businesses Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (213 votes cast) Provide a 10 year, 0% tax holiday for new businesses that create new and maintain 100+ Michigan employees.

Jason Stefanich - Tuesday, November 24, 2009   Unemployment reform to benefit state and local services Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (196 votes cast) Leverage "unemployed resource" for understaffed state and local services. The program could be voluntary with participation incentives. The state would benefit by having a larger workforce with nominal cost and the unemployed would benefit through career enrichment, public service contribution, and potentially enhanced benefits.

Dan Langerock - Tuesday, November 24, 2009   diversifying your city's economic base Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (193 votes cast) I am a new resident in Michigan having married someone here and consequently moved here. I took economics in college. The more diversity a community or state has in its economic base, the better able they are able to survive when things turn sour. For instance, the place I came from had senior citizens as their main industry. However, when the seniors didn't come back as much to the city, they went downhill financally. Another example is the auto industry you are well aware of. If you depend on the auto industry as your main industry for the state or region, it will not be good when it goes down due to competition etc. But you already know this. So, if you can attract more businesses of different kinds to the state you will be better off economically. Another example would be if you put the same kind of stores in a mall, let's say shoe stores. If there was only this type of store your mall would not succeed.Thank you

Paul Sandor - Tuesday, November 24, 2009   Weight for me Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (194 votes cast) The Federal Highway System was designed to move privately owned vehicles with construction allowances for tractor trailers and military movements. When visitors come to Michigan for work or pleasure the first and most impressionable contact is our road systems, lets face it not a good first impression. The construction standards for this infrastructure is baselined across the entire United States at an acceptable weight limit of 80,000 pounds. Any vehicle exceeding height, width, length and weight limits are required to pay for a special permit to move the load on said highways and prescribed secondary roads designed to handle the permitted loads. My idea is to reduce the load limit from 160,000 pounds back to 80,000 pounds the national standard. This would have immediate payback in reduction of annual road maintenance. If a business still wanted to operate at 160,000 pound payload then their loads would need to be permitted and the revenue would go directly into the cost of repairing the sections of highways and secondary roads outlined under their permit. Additional considerations would be in the form of safety. The amount of space required to stop a vehicle of 160,000 pounds compared to that of 80,000 pounds at any speed is sizable. Permitted loads are required to travel at a prescribed speed, lower than the State posted speed limit.

Matthew E. Graham - Tuesday, November 24, 2009   Free Transportation Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.1 (201 votes cast) They should offer a program for low-income citizens that would give them a free ride to a job/workplace with-in 30 miles of their residence. Living in rural communities, people sometimes find it hard when not having transportation to find/go to a job. Even if their was set times when a bus/shuttle would be in that area would be nice. A ride home should be accomadated also. They could even use a card for it to distingiush them, or just use the EBT card.