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percent, according to a new survey. , a Columbus-basecd market research and communications company, found that 53 percent of area CEOs supporyt the income tax increase whilee 43 percentoppose it. Columbus voters will decide in August whether to increasethe tax, which city officialxs contend is needed to stave off furthedr employee job losses and reducer services. The tax would bring in an estimatexd $97 million annually. Those living and who work in Columbusz would pay anadditional $50 on evert $10,000 in wages. The sent to 500 CEOs with 217answeringv it, also asked the chief executives theire opinions of the economy.
More than half responding to the surveyh said they see no signs of improvements inthe region’s economy and 55 percen t report that their organization’s financialo performance is worse now than at this time last year. More than half of the respondentsa said federal government actions to improvew the economywere “somewhat effective,” while 32 percent said steps by Presiden t Barack Obama and Congress have not been at all On the political front, the survet found that 67 percent of Columbusa CEOs would support Republicabn John Kasich in a hypothetical gubernatorial Twenty-three percent said they woul d support Democrat Ted Strickland .
Opinion Consultants Presiden t Thomas Sawyer said that inpast surveys, roughly 90 percent of area CEOs polled identified themselves as