Re: Tech credit called 'substantial drain'



"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Jerry Okamura wrote:

"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jerry Okamura wrote:

In today's advertiser.

The state's technology tax incentives are expensive
and have not produced measurable growth in
technology jobs, according to a new report by the
state Tax Review Commission.

Congradulations Jerry for reading the Advertiser.
You have said in the past that you don't read the
Honolulu papers.

I read the web sites everyday.

Great, then perhaps you wont be so ill-informed about
state issues in the future.


Just because people read the Honolulu newspapers does not mean they are
informed. It just means that they buy into the propaganda that the
Honolulu
newspapers put out.

"Measurable" depends on how you measure. Don't know
how the Commission did their measuring, but the
state electrical engineering professional society
grew by about a hundred this past year to about 750.
Maybe the Commission is using data from two years
ago.

Well, since my major was electronics, I can tell you
that when I graduated, I did not even try to get a
job in Hawaii. The reason is simple. There are
basically only two places to work, for one of the
electric utilities and for the military. I chose to
work in Southern California, because there were a
whole lot of companies that would hire people with my
major. As for the number who graduate from U of H, I
would then want to know, of those who did graduate,
how many are working in Hawaii?

It's changed a lot from your era. Times have changed.
Your question would be better addressed to recent
graduates, but I have heard it say from every student
that I've talked to that now, all graduates have at
least one offer from a Hawaii employer. whether they
leave or not is their own choice. A lot do stay because
they have family obligations, but they do not suffer
for staying.


You see, that is the problem I have with your comments. I asked, how
many
graduates with the EE degree actaully stay in Hawaii to work. I did
not say
that there were none who stayed in Hawaii to work.

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