Poll Finds Arizonans Don’t Want To Import “Bad” California Law

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Arizona’s leading small-business association released results this week of its annual poll of its membership, and it found Main Street entrepreneurs in no mood for importing a bad California law into the state. In fact, the group says it found that entrepreneurs are in “no mood for new taxes for EV infrastructure, and in no mood to yoke the backs of manufacturers with a new and immensely costly regulation in the name of environmental do-goodism, however misguided.”

As it does every year, National Federation of Independent Businesses ( NFIB), the nation’s and Arizona’s leading small-business association, polls its members on state and federal issues affecting their right to own, operate, and grow their businesses.

“Every state has a tiny number of bad actors who try and get away with something by classifying full-time employees as independent contractors in order to save money on payroll taxes,” said Chad Heinrich, NFIB’s Arizona state director. “But California chose to fire a bazooka at an anthill-sized problem when its state supreme court, in its Dynamex ruling, wrote its ABC test for determining an employee from an independent contractor, and, not to be outdone, its state legislature passed Assembly Bill 5, which has wreaked needless havoc with a multitude of job classifications–impacting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. Our small-business-owning membership in Arizona is clear on the issue: Keep that bad California idea out of here.”

The 2022 Arizona state member ballot asked three questions:

Should Arizona employers use California’s ABC test to determine if workers classify as independent contractors?

Yes 7%

No 83%

Und. 10%

Should Arizona require businesses that manufacture, sell, import, license, or distribute product packaging materials to be responsible for the collection and recycling of those materials?

Yes 6%

No 84%

Und. 10%

Should Arizona impose new taxes, assessments, or fees on motorists, shipping, or commercial and residential energy consumption to pay for the infrastructure necessary to accommodate electric vehicles?

Yes 5%

No 91%

Und. 4%

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