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The Florida Chamber of Commerce is releasing its legislative agenda and the focus is no surprise. Job creation is the main theme of the business group’s goals. The Chamber wants to create jobs by lowering taxes on businesses, making it harder to sue and improving the state’s education system. Chamber President Mark Wilson says if the legislature follows their recommendations thousand of jobs will be created.

“We believe that we can create 135,000 new net jobs this year in Florida. We believe that we can grow our population again by about 138,000 new residents by the end of this year. And when you add that up we believe that we can create 40 billion dollars of new economic activity this year,” said Wilson.

The Chamber also praised Governor Rick Scott’s freeze on state regulations and his new budget.