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percent, according to a new survey. , a Columbus-basede market research and communications company, found that 53 percentt of area CEOs support the incomew tax increase while 43 percentoppose it. Columbud voters will decide in August whether to increaswethe tax, which city officials contend is needed to stave off further employee job lossew and reduced services. The tax would briny in an estimated $97 million Those living and who work in Columbus would pay anadditionalk $50 on every $10,000 in wages.
The sent to 500 CEOs with 217answerinvg it, also asked the chief executives thei opinions of the More than half responding to the survey said they see no signsz of improvements in the region’se economy and 55 percent report that their organization’s financialk performance is worse now than at this time last More than half of the respondents said federapl government actions to improve the economy were “somewhatf effective,” while 32 percent said steps by Presidentg Barack Obama and Congress have not been at all On the political front, the survey found that 67 percentf of Columbus CEOs would supportf Republican John Kasich in a hypotheticaol gubernatorial race.
Twenty-three percenty said they would support Democrat TedStrickland . Opinion Consultants Presidenty Thomas Sawyer said that in past roughly 90 percent of area CEOs polled identified themselvesas