Showing posts with label Corporate Welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate Welfare. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Florida Corporate Welfare Package: $2 Billion

Desantis and the GOP Legislature gave $2 billion of our tax dollars in the reinsurance program last May, 2022. This was done to prop up insurance companies. Obviously, it is not helping since this would be the sixth company stopping providing insurance in Florida.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor ($350 million) Corporate Welfare

Mayor Jane Castor is testing the waters on whether the public is willing to use tax dollars (half of the cost, or an estimated 
($350 million)
 to pay for a portion of the cost of building an Ybor City ballpark for the Tampa Bay Rays. here

Friday, December 3, 2021

Florida GOP Corporate Welfare

As Florida Republicans, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, escalate their fight against President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate, they are testing a new method to support resisters: giving taxpayer money to the unvaccinated. HERE

Monday, September 14, 2020

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare: $15.5 Million

On July 15, the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners, by a vote of 6 to 1, approved a proposal from the Tampa Sports Authority (TSA) to spend $10.4 million of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act money to implement Corona Virus safety measures at Raymond James Stadium.
The beneficiaries: the Tampa Bay Bucs, a highly profitable private company, who would be able to have more fans attend their games.
Well, we can’t have the Lightning and the Yankees (both also highly profitable private companies) feeling left out.
So early this month the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners, once again by a vote of 6 to1 (Stacy White being the only ‘no’ vote) approved a total of $4.1 million of CARES money for Amalie Arena and George M. Steinbrenner Field for safety improvements related to Corona Virus.  $2.4 million will go to Amalie Arena and $1.7 million will go to Steinbrenner Field. MORE
The total of CARES money given to professional sports franchises in Tampa is now $15.5 million.  One has to wonder how many small businesses in Hillsborough County, with legitimate and pressing needs, have been unable to get even a dime of this money.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Florida's Half-Billion dollars in Corporate Welfare

As Florida’s economy crashes, DeSantis says he’s going ahead with $543 million in tax refunds for corporations. HERE

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Florida Dems $2 million Tax Breaks

A group of Florida senators -- including three from Central Florida -- voted Tuesday to give $2 million tax breaks to rental-car giant Avis Budget Group Inc. and a few other big companies that rent or lease cars. HERE
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Florida Dems Linda Stewart of Orlando and Victor Torres of Kissimmee voted for 
the tax break.

Avis and the rental-car industry have been lobbying Florida lawmakers for a tax break for more than a year. They want one to offset an increase to their state corporate income 
tax bill.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Hillsborough County Commissioners got taken by Amazon

Back in 2013 commissioners gave Amazon $225,000 in  Corporate Welfare to build a center in Ruskin. HERE
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 Murman likened the Amazon deal to a business hurricane. "It can really give us that long term that we need," she said, "and this will be feeder bands, you know we talk a lot of about hurricanes, this is our hurricane because the feeder bands that will come off of this
will be unbelievable."
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AOC got hers for free!
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “waiting on the haters to apologize” after Amazon said it would open up corporate offices in New York City to house more than 1,500 employees. The announcement from the internet giant came less than a year after it abruptly dropped plans to build a second headquarters in the city following backlash to the some $3 billion in financial incentives that the government had offered to woo the company. HERE
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“Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway - *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

 More here

Friday, August 16, 2019

Florida Corporate Welfare State

Florida is about to give more than $500 million to some of its biggest corporations.
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The mammoth tax cut is a result of an obscure law passed by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature last year amid lobbying by companies such as Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, Comcast Corp. and the Walt Disney Co. HERE

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Lost Ybor = Lost 40K In Corporate Welfare

Hillsborough could pay $40K to have ‘Blair Witch’ director film new horror series 

in Ybor. HERE

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Since they like Ybor so much we should be 
charging them to film here.

Monday, June 24, 2019

Florida Corporate Welfare

DeSantis’ new budget is full of corporate handouts and tax loopholes all paid for by cutting funding to public schools, slashing environmental protection programs, and does nothing to curtail the spiraling healthcare costs which are crippling Florida families.
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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Hillsborough County's Gift To Hollywood

Nearly three years after Florida stopped giving out tax incentives for film and TV crews, producers are making their way back to the Sunshine State now that counties are picking up where the 
state left off.
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 Hillsborough County
$500,000 HERE

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Enki: Tax Scam

The transportation tax will become corporate welfare just as the critics have been saying.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Hillsborough County Approves $3M Corporate Welfare

County commissioners voted 6-1 on Wednesday to provide $3 million to reimburse the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee for expenses for hosting and marketing the Super Bowl in February 2021.
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Commissioner Mariella Smith was the sole member who voted against using $3 million of our money FOR marketing a corporate product. HERE 
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The History of Corporate Welfare in 
Hillsborough County


NEED SOME?
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What happened to the 
Dem majority?

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Florida’s Rick Scott Busted In Corporate Welfare Scheme

His administration’s Department of Economic Opportunity in 2014 violated federal law to make a deal to provide financial incentives to a U.S. company with ties to the Russian maker of the Kalashnikov semi-automatic assault rifle, which at the time was subject to sanctions put in place by the U.S. government.
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it offered $162,000 in tax refund incentives to Kalashnikov USA for 54 jobs. It is located in a non-descript 40,000 square foot facility in 
Pompano Beach. here

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Boycott Proponents of Taxpayer Subsidized Rays Stadium

Remember this?
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George W. Bush and the Texas Rangers
When he bought the team, the Rangers were playing in an old minor-league stadium. It didn’t have the fancy sky boxes and other amenities that helped make other franchises much more profitable. As a result, the team couldn’t compete with other big-city teams for good players. But the new owners weren’t willing to finance the construction of a new ballpark. They decided to hit up taxpayers for the money.
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First, the new owners threatened to move the team out of Arlington, Texas, sending local officials scurrying to put together a deal they couldn’t refuse. Under the resulting agreement, the taxpayers of Arlington would raise $135 million, the bulk of the cost of construction, through a hike in sales taxes. During a campaign to sell the sales tax increase to Arlington voters, then-mayor Richard Greene said the team owners would put $50 million of their own money into the deal up front. It didn’t quite work out that way; the owners raised a hefty portion of their down payment from fans, through a one dollar surcharge on tickets. 

The city spent $150,000 on an advertising campaign to persuade voters. Opponents of the deal couldn’t compete with glossy brochures, telemarketing calls, and a “Hands Around Arlington Day.” On Jan. 19, 1991, citizens of Arlington voted two-to-one to approve a sales-tax increase dedicated to building the new park. here
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And this: Minnesota taxpayers, $348 million — or about $616 million, including interest over three decades.  here
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Las Vegas for the Raiders?  $750 million taxpayer subsidy. here
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It can be done. Check this out. Chargers love LA. here. Great job San Diego!
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Join the revolt here

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Rays Hoopla Has Started In Ybor



Beware Tampa/Hillsborough 
we are about  to get screwed!

The main drivers of the stadium are Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan who has enriched his developer friends during his 16-year tenure in office, and the Tampa Bay Times that has at least two “investors,” Jeff Vinik and Darryl Shaw, who will make a real estate windfall into the hundreds of millions.
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Mr. Mayor we don't use pencils on this side and there won't be any burden on taxpayers because taxpayers aren't giving you, Ken Hagan, The Rays or MLB nothing.
Do the math, We did

Friday, February 9, 2018

Rays Coming To Ybor

Fake News: Our fearless leader Corporate Welfare king Commissioner Ken Hagan and his corporate cronies will unveil a plan to build us a new Rays stadium in Ybor. 
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Beware the catch! "The guarantee of sponsorships and ticket sales will be a major factor in how much the team will contribute toward a stadium." 
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Hillsborough County taxpayers will not have to hand out a dime for construction of the new stadium or the surrounding infrastructure.
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Thank you Mr. Hagan and your corporate friends. To us Tampeños who don't like baseball this will be a great addition to our beloved Ybor!
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Friday, January 12, 2018

Florida Dem Annette Taddeo's Corporate Welfare Bill

Newly minted Democrat Annette Taddeo has introduced a bill (SB 1606) That would create the “Florida Motion Picture Capital Corporation” Basically lining the pockets of Hollywood execs. here
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She said “This effort will bring high paying jobs, grow the middle class, have a positive impact on small businesses."

This is not always true. Hillsborough County paid the producers of The Infiltrator $250.000, they were in the bay area 8 days. Tim Burton got $100.00. Ben Affleck tried to extort money from us or he would move his production of "Live By Night" which took place in Ybor City to Savannah, Ga. We held firm and he did. The film was a flop, loosing  $75 million. 
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Her plan will eventually need a “one and done” infusion 
of $10-20 million.
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 Some history: In 2010, lawmakers set aside nearly $300 million for incentives to bring movies and television projects to Florida.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Majority Of Floridians Back Corporate Welfare

58%
Only 28% Oppose it.
According to a USF-Nielsen Sunshine State Survey.  Support was down from a high of 69 percent in 2010.
here