CL Rebuttal To Twin Falls Chamber Agenda 2005
Twin Falls Area Chamber of Commerce 2005 Legislative Position Paper
4. Enact Building Contractor Registration. The building industry has been a key factor in sustaining our economy statewide. With the magnitude of the building industry and the potential for consumer issues, building contractor registration has been continually defeated by special interests. The registration of contractors is broadly supported by contractor associations and we encourage enactment of contractor registration through self-funding fees.
REBUTTAL
- "The building industry has been a key factor in sustaining our economy statewide" -- Now we need to choke it.
- "With the magnitude of the building industry and the potential for consumer issues" -- Now we have a crisis because there is so much potential! We can justify micro-managing anything that has potential!
- "building contractor registration has been continually defeated by special interests" -- Small builders who are raising families are your evil "special interests." You fail to mention the large contractors who promote registration -- are they not special interests? Isn't the Chamber of Commerce a special interest?
- "The registration of contractors is broadly supported by contractor associations" -- Take a vote of the rank and file. Contractor registration as been promoted through consensus, by larger California builders who want to make Idaho like the place they left.
- "we encourage enactment of contractor registration through self-funding fees" -- You are naive -- twice -- to believe the fees will be sufficient to begin and sustain this new bureaucracy. What you will be creating is a new bureaucracy, which will have new and greater crisis to justify more and more tax consumption.
Your claims are insulting to and defame every hard-working contractor in this State. I suggest the Chamber stick with promoting business rather than throttling small businesses for the benefit of larger members.
It is a shame that an organization dedicated to promoting commerce has taken measures to regulate enterprise and is laboring to increase civil government's control over contracts and increase its taxing authority.
The information on this page was taken from the Chamber website: www.twinfallschamber.com/index.cfm?display=21&cocContentId=125&cocTopicList=10
rebuttal by Dean Isaacson