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IOWA: WHERE THE BOYS ARE
June 12, 2007
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal had a roundup of state economic development incentives (links may only work for WSJ online subscribers). Among various charts on the attractiveness of different areas for economic development was this one:
It's not clear why this is an economic development issue, but the Wall Street Journal says it is one, so it must be important.
While it's nice to find an area where we're better than South Dakota (or worse, depending on your point of view), it seems from here that young single women are good for economic development. As Iowa's standard tool for economic development is tax breaks, it's up to you to to help design the right tax incentive to correct this imbalance by completing this carefully-designed survey of potential gender-balance tax credits:
If you have any other ideas, feel free to add them in the comments.
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You're obviously not very serious on this poll, which is fine. But to actually try to attract women to the state, one might try lowering tuition at the state schools for women (alternatively, forgive loans on the basis or iowa income tax (personal or spouse).
If unmarried mothers (included in the statistics but not clear if desirable) are desired, then increase the child deduction on the state income tax (or even give a direct subsidy like Sweden).
One might check to see if the big city opportunities (night clubs, opera, shows, etc) are more attactive to women than men (you wouldn't want to attract more men and make the inbalance worse :) ) and subsidize them, if they seem to work.
Posted by: tolonaro | June 12, 2007 3:55 PM
I think the commenter misses the point of the post, which I am guessing is that targeting the tax code for certain social goals is generally unsuccessful and unfair.
Posted by: Erich Riesenberg | June 13, 2007 5:22 PM