http://seattle.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/507-498 <table width="100%"> <tr><td width="100" valign="top"> <div id="IdeaScale_Vote" align="center"><div style="padding:5px;font-size:2em">1</div><div><a href="http://seattle.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/507-498">Vote&nbsp;On&nbsp;Idea</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div>I would like to see the city and the state provide tax incentives for local business to hire from within the state instead of pooling from across the country and elsewhere in the world. This huge influx of workers from everywhere but Washington is just adding to the unemployment rates here not to mention it also contributes to driving up the price of housing and straining our already crowded roadways. </div><div id="IdeaScale_IdeaFooter"><span style="border-right: 1px solid silver; margin:0 10px 0 0; padding: 0 5px 0 0; color: #666;"><a id="DiscussionTopic_507" href="http://seattle.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/507-498">Comments (0)</a></span><span id="DiscussionTopicTag_507">Category/Tags : <a href="/akira/ideafactory.do?discussionID=889">City Taxes (2)</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="border-left: 1px solid silver; margin:0 10px 0 0; padding: 0 5px 0 0; color: #666;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Mark as <a href="javascript:ajaxLink('DiscussionTopicFlag_507', '/akira/flagDiscussionTopic.do?mode=duplicate&discussionID=889&ID=507')">duplicate</a></span><div style="margin-top:3px;" id="DiscussionTopicFlag_507"></div><div style="margin-top:3px;" id="DiscussionTopicComment_507"></div></div></td></tr></table> Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://seattle.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/507-498