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Tech lobbyists: Spend $30 billion in tax dollars, get a million jobs
With President-elect Barack Obama set to argue for urgent, massive government spending, and what is likely to be a $1.2 trillion deficit, lobbyists for technology firms are saying that any stimulus should be directed at, well, technology firms.
A report released Wednesday by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says that spending $30 billion in taxpayers' money in 2009 on broadband infrastructure, health IT, and electric grid technologies could create or save approximately 949,000 U.S. jobs. More than half of those jobs, the report claims, would be in small businesses.
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