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IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 2, 2012 CONTACT Daniel Son, Hamilton Place Strategies 202.822.1205; dson@hamiltonps.com

Poll Analysis

AMERICANS SEE TAX AND REGULATORY BURDENS DISCOURAGING JOB CREATION


57% of Adults Believe Tax and Regulatory Burden on Businesses Are Slowing Job Creation

Small business owners, entrepreneurs and job creators have been bemoaning the hurdles to hiring and growth that federal rules and regulations represent for some time now, and a new national poll shows broad support and sympathy for their positions among Americans.

Nearly 60% of adults nationwide have a great deal of sympathy for individual small business owners who name high taxes as a problem when it comes to hiring new workers or increasing wages of current workers. Likewise for the issues of confusing tax rules, rising health care costs and political gridlock, more than half of Americans have a great deal of sympathy.

Interestingly, when asked if they would support certain policy reforms on behalf of employers if it would help to create jobs or raise wages, there was broad support for giving tax breaks to small business owners (68%); reforming the tax code to make it less complex and costly to comply with (68%); reducing Federal spending to reassure the private sector that taxes wouldnt be raised in the future (53%) and reducing the number of additional regulations that small businesses face as they grow (51%).

Further, when asked if they believed that if the policy changes they support were made, employers in their communities would hire more workers or pay higher wages, 90% said that was at least somewhat likely.

Nearly 60% of all adults and 67% of political Independents, said that the best approach to getting the economy back on track and creating jobs would be to limit the size of government, keep taxes low and reduce regulatory burden.

The poll of a representative sample of 2,023 adults was conducted for the Job Creators Alliance by YouGov with a margin of error of +/- 2.2% on February 24-28, 2012.

POLL FINDINGS

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