= Survey = http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/bol_survey/survey.html?survey_id=3089 Business Pulse: Should government expand the use of tax incentives? As global competition heats up, should government expand the use of tax incentives to entice companies to relocate or expand here? Should the government expand the use of tax credits? "No." = Comment = Absolutely no, let the small businesses have a chance. Giving our tax incentives to companies to relocate is a bad game theoretic solution. Giving tax incentives to comanies already here to stay here is also a bad game theoretic solution. Putting a tax on "profit leaving" (but not exchange money) and "luxury and finished goods entering" (but not purchases intended as components) the governmental jurisdiction are incentives that can help reinvigorate our local economy and increase our production to the point that we can become an economic powerhouse. In short, we should expand the use of taxes, not tax credits -- our social services are already too underfunded than they need to be, and economic activity in the upper classes is enough to sustain us so long as we tax it (by not eliminating capital gains taxes and shifting taxes away from payroll -- as payroll funds are the main driver of economic sustainability). Increasing profits that are already acting as enough of an incentive gives a lower marginal utility than increasing the ability of people to actually purchase economic goods. Businesses that are too unethical and that desire even more profits than they need to be sustainable should simply not be allowed to flourish. The right is the pursuit of happiness, not consumptive excess.