Examples of how favorable results can occur when business groups of all types work together: 

• Blocked expansion of the state sales tax onto a host of new industries
• Gained passage of reductions to the personal income tax and the corporate income tax rates
• Fought for the elimination of the sales tax on commercial energy usage
• Pushed for lower rates on employer-paid unemployment insurance rates
• Won measures to get needed building upgrade projects at the state's public colleges and universities
• Stopped the movement to impose unreasonable workforce mandates on employers
• Demanded performance-based economic development growth programs
• Jolted the workforce development pipeline by securing money for "real jobs" training
• Supported new small business financing programs
• Identified needless regulatory hurdles ripe for repeal