Fewer business taxes, new toll roads and more science graduates are among the goals Gov. Rick Scott set Wednesday for his second year in office.

Scott rolled out his legislative agenda in broad strokes at Metal Essence Inc., a precision metals and plastics fabricator in Sanford. The company is about 20 miles north of the Orlando bar where President Barack Obama met unemployed construction workers on Tuesday.

Scott, who made job creation the central promise of his campaign, said his plan would help make the state “the nation’s premier environment to start, relocate or expand a business.”

“This plan focuses on removing the barriers to beginning, relocating and growing a business in our state,” Scott said.

Scott’s agenda earned initial applause from legislative leaders, but the details will cause much debate among lawmakers, who begin their annual legislative session in January.

Already facing a $1.5 billion shortfall in projected tax collections, Scott’s agenda would cut state revenues more.

He wants to eliminate the profit tax for a quarter of Florida businesses, erase taxes on computers, machinery and other property for half of the companies that pay it now, and expand a sales tax exemption for manufacturing equipment.

Scott’s office did not release the cost of those cuts. Current exemptions to those taxes will cost the state about $180 million next year.

“As businesses struggle with when and where to open,” Scott said, “their decisions largely depend on the tax structure of the locations under consideration.”

But many states with less favorable business climates according to a Tax Foundation report, such as Massachusetts and Maryland, have lower unemployment rates than Florida.

Scott’s push for tax cuts could also conflict with many Republican lawmakers, like state Sen. Don Gaetz, who

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