Green Party of New Jersey
Updated
May 09, 2008
Why
Green is Good for Small Business
Healthcare
Have you ever had to hesitate about hiring someone because their age or state of health would drive up your small group healthcare policy cost? Have you ever considered not offering healthcare benefits at all? Did you delay starting the business of your dreams because you were afraid to lose the healthcare benefits tied to a boring corporate job?
If your answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you should be voting Green.
Preferential Treatment of Large Corporations
Have you seen your costs increase and your margins diminish because a large-chain competitor is getting special breaks and incentives to compete with YOU? Have you had to pay exorbitant interest rates for a bank loan while your mega-competitor pays Prime rate or below?
Are your taxes in the maximum bracket, while your multi-billion dollar competitor pays half your rate?
If your answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you should be voting Green.
Unethical Offshore Competition
Do you pay your workers a living wage ($10 and hour or more)? Do you provide good working conditions and reasonable working hours, paid vacations and sick leave? Do you mega-corporate competitors use offshore labor in slave-labor conditions making competition difficult?
If your answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you should be voting Green.
Education
Does your business depend on a well-educated workforce? Do you find it difficult to recruit workers with solid educational grounding? Does your business require continuous updating of knowledge and skills? Do you find it prohibitively expensive to maintain current skills and knowledge in your workforce?
If your answer to any of these questions is "yes," then you should be voting Green.
Green is Good Business!
Greens support universal single payer healthcare--removing the burden of healthcare coverage from employers and individuals to the society as a whole.
Greens oppose corporate welfare--those tax breaks and incentives that always seem to go to the largest corporations with the largest lobbying organizations and PACs.
Greens support import restrictions on goods made in labor conditions that do not meet minimum standards for wages, working conditions and hours and rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining.
Greens support extended public support of education--including improving educational conditions and reducing class size in our public schools, enhanced funding for post-secondary (college and vocational) and continuing education.
