OTHER NEWS - Oct. 22, 1991

Group Lists Defeating New Taxes as No. 1: Defeating any additional state tax increases is the most important step California can take to increase jobs and restore the state’s competitiveness, a state Chamber of Commerce survey reports. A close second in the chamber survey was reform of the state’s workers’ compensation laws, followed by tort reform, better education to prepare students for the work force and simplification of business permit and reporting procedures. Wilford Godbold, chairman of the chamber’s task force on saving California jobs, cites what he described as “a Legislature that doesn’t understand business needs.”