Issue Position: Make it in New York State

Issue Position

# Eliminate tax breaks and loans to call centers that relocate New York State jobs overseas

# Encourage restaurants and food distributors to purchase locally made New York State food products

# Translate local research and ideas developed at UB and Roswell Park into businesses that can create jobs

Tim is focused on initiatives that level the playing field between New York State businesses and those out of state. He believes that buying locally-made products is good for our economy and our community, which is why he is spearheading an effort to incentivize the production and purchasing of goods made right here in New York State.

Tim Kennedy visits with college students at Cheektowaga Town ParkFarming and agricuture are vital industries in New York State. To provide support for local food producers, Tim is sponsoring legislation that encourages restaurants and food distributors to purchase locally made New York State food products.

To keep jobs in New York State, Tim is supporting a measure that would eliminate the tax breaks and loans to call centers that relocate New York State jobs overseas.

Tim is at the forefront of promoting and capturing technological innovations with the creation of the SEED-NY Investment Fund, which is designed to support the development and commercialization of research developed right in New York State. SEED-NY funding helps take ideas, like those being developed at the University at Buffalo or Roswell Park, and translates them into businesses that can create jobs.

Tim always says that you don't buy a stock when it is at its highest and you don't buy stock when it is at its lowest; you buy a stock when it is turning the corner. Western New York and Buffalo's economy is turning the corner, and we need to make sure that we are investing in its future.

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