business lobby

Tim Chavez gives the Governor a backhanded compliment:

Fifteen million dollars worth of “technical correction” just went out the window according to John Rodgers:

The provision would have eliminated a tax break for commercial real estate holdings of Family Owned Non-Corporate Entities, or FONCEs. A limited liability company is a non-corporate entity.

The Tennessee State Senate Commerce Committee rightly dismissed a bill by a 9-2 vote that would have mandated pay for time taken off by employees working for businesses that employed twenty-five or more workers.

If you have a complaint against a business for hiring illegal immigrants and you are not a government official then you will not be heard:

The measure’s main House sponsor, Rep. John Hood (D-Murfreesboro), said he was not aware when the bill passed that only government officials could lodge complaints against businesses suspected of employing illegal aliens.

Citizens can't file complaints against companiesThe Nashville City Paper reports here that the business lobby neutered Tennessee's new immigration enforcement bill, under which a business can lose its license for hiring foreign employees without a visa. Under an early draft of the bill, average citizens could file a complaint against such employers, but in the final version, only government