$264 Million In Corporate Welfare Since Rick Scott Took Office In 2011

He wants $80 million more! 

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Best States For Business: Florida #20

Rick Scott Where are those jobs?

Florida's Corporate Welfare Not Working

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare State

Florida INC. Out Of Money 

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 The state's ability to attract high-wage manufacturing jobs has not increased alongside a sharp rise in taxpayer-funded economic incentives (Corporate Welfare), which are often designed to attract those jobs, according to the Legislature's top economist.

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Rick Scott Keeps Pushing Legislators For Corporate Welfare

 Rick Scott continues telling business leaders to pressure lawmakers for more incentive money (Corporate Welfare) to help attract companies to Florida. here

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Florida's Corporate Welfare Not Working

Florida's Corporate Welfare Not Working

In 2014, the state gave out

$5.7 billion 
in Corporate Welfare

The state's ability to attract high-wage manufacturing jobs has not increased alongside a sharp rise in taxpayer-funded economic incentives (Corporate Welfare), which are often designed to attract those jobs, according to the Legislature's top economist. here

Ken Hagan, Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare King

Between 2010-2016 the Florida Legislature gave Hollywood $296 million in Corporate Welfare, In February, Hillsborough County gave Tim Burton $100,000 to film “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” They also gave the film "The nfiltrator" $250,000, that money got the Tampa Bay area eight days of shooting. Ken Hagan said he would push for more welfare if the right project 
came along. here

Florida's Bill Nelson - Let The Poor Starve

 28 Senate Democrats voted with the Republicans
Our own Bill Nelson was one of them.
Kirsten Gillibrand a Dem. from NY proposed to restore the $4 billion that the current farm bill--designed by Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Thad Cochran (R-MS)--cuts from SNAP (Supplemental Food Assistance, known as food stamps and to offset this restored funding with a limitation on crop insurance reimbursements. Our current crop insurance subsidies benefit large farms at the expense of smaller ones and are one of the many glaring manifestations of corporate welfare that Congress never fixes.  Gillibrand's amendment would, in essence, cut corporate welfare spending to restore social welfare spending.......more

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Nelson will be a speaker at the Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. This is the guy the FDP wants to run for governor? Check out Nan Rich. A real democrat.

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?

Florida GOP Approves More Corporate Welfare

$400 million in corporate welfare to special interest groups and targeted industries. Taxes would be slashed for boat and yacht repairs, jet fuel for aviation schools and gun club memberships 

among them. 

Florida GOP Jack Latvala of Clearwater, defended the tax cuts on boat repairs. 

here

They did give us some scraps, cut our cell phone bills by about $20, give back-to-school shoppers 10 days of sales tax free shopping, and lower textbook prices for 
college students.

"Please turn your dead brains back to the "on" position and start thinking critically about what the Legislature is doing. They give you $20 in your left pocket while stealing $100 from your right pocket by forcing you to subsidize their lobbyist friends." Susan Smith

Rick Scott Wants $250 Million For Corporate Welfare

 Saying Florida needs to be in "the game" of trying to lure new companies, Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday said he will ask state legislators to give him $85 million in the coming year for Corporate Welfare. here

Florida Mayors For Corporate Welfare

Mayor Howard Wiggs - Lakeland

Mayor Randall Henderson - Ft. Myers

 Mayor Van Johnson - Apalachicola

Mayor Carlos Hernandez - Hialeah

The Brevard County Commission has also passed a resolution supporting Corporate Welfare.

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Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare State

His plan for more than $1 billion in tax cuts and corporate welfare, he seems intent on forcing the need for further budget cuts rather than reinvesting in education, the environment and other priorities. here

Corporate Welfare In Ybor City

Last summer, citing a Tampa economic development official, the Tampa Bay Times reported that a division of Ashley Furniture — one of the nation's biggest furniture brands — planned to move 300 employees into Centro Ybor. Neither Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. executives nor Ashley Furniture spokespeople offered any comment Wednesday on the expected Ashley expansion. here

Ashley Furniture facing nearly $1.8 million in federal fines for workplace safety violations 
stands to receive up to 
$6.7 million 

in tax credits (Corporate Welfare) 
from the state's top job creation agency. here 
This is where our money goes, they should be paying us for the privilege to do business in Ybor. wake up Hillsborough County. 

Rick Scott's Florida Corporate Welfare Not Working

Florida’s state economic development efforts are “underperforming,” according to a new legislative report. An undesirable label by any standard, critics and lawmakers already skeptical of providing taxpayer support (Corporate Welfare) for private businesses. here

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Big Sugar and Corporate Welfare

For decades, the sugar subsidy has been lambasted as the worst form of corporate welfare. Big Sugar's perks amount to legalized corruption of the campaign finance system. In Florida, Big Sugar money influence is so great that the industry acts in the state capitol 

as a shadow government. 

What Big Sugar wants, it gets. 

These days, a solid GOP majority in the state legislature, 

Gov. Rick Scott, and Adam Putnam 

-- the agriculture secretary aiming to replace Marco Rubio in the US Senate -- are so deep in Big Sugar's pocket, you can't even see them. Not that Floridians are looking. here

Florida's First Family of Corporate Welfare

Most Floridians don't even know who they are.  I wish I didn't.  You probably haven't heard of them. But you are paying them.

TIME magazine has called them the "First Family of Corporate Welfare"

John Ellis Bush (JEB), Rick Scott, and other GOP politicians kowtow to this family like no other.  They were a top donor for W. And they are almost singlehandedly destroying our Everglades. Welcome to Keeping up with the Fanjul family of Palm Beach. here

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare King Ken Hagan

Local Corporate Welfare King Ken Hagan 

and his colleagues are giving 

Good Films Ltd, 

producers of the film The Infiltrator $250,000 to film a few exterior shots in Tampa.

“If we had more incentives, Hillsborough County would have scored the production of nearly the entire film,” Hagan recalled wistfully today.

here

Check out more of Mr. Hagan's giveaways here

Florida's Corporate Welfare Program

DC might be closed but Rick Scott is open for business.

Check out  Florida's Corporate Welfare Program here

Rick Scott Where are those promised jobs?

Rick Scott's chief jobs creator faced intense criticism Tuesday from key senators who openly mocked claims by Enterprise Florida that it needs more Corporate Welfare to lure businesses to Florida. A Times/Herald study found only a fraction of new jobs promised as a result of incentive awards (Corporate Welfare) actually existed. here

Florida GOP Jim Boyd of Bradenton To Keep Fighting For Corporate Welfare

$250 million

State Rep. Jim Boyd of Bradenton, promised the Manatee County Commission on Tuesday morning to keep fighting for Corporate Welfare funding after his bill to regulate its state funding died in the Senate this year. here

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article67515767.html#storylink=cpy

$500 Billion In Corporate Welfare

An army of corporate lobbyists on Capitol Hill are urging Florida’s Congressional Representatives to make about 
$500 billion in corporate tax giveaways permanent. Email your elected officials today and demand that they side with working families  over big corporations. here

COVID-19 And The Case For Democratic Socialism

The urgent question for the citizens of the United States as we deal with the COVID-19 crisis is, do we repeat with corporate bailouts that we did in 2008/2009 or move to a Democratic Socialist model?   Presently, in  Washington and Tallahassee, we're watching a pathetic show being played out by sycophant politicians trying to expand  corporate welfare. Both Parties leadership are not providing the economic response needed to get working class Americans through this crisis, with the Republican Party  the most irresponsible. In a larger context we're witnessing the  failure of American-style corporate laissez faire capitalism in dealing with this pandemic. From an immoral private healthcare system to a neoliberal market system that over the decades has eroded our public institutions and safety-net programs. All of which has led us to this T.V. and tabloid personality President who's nothing more than a spoiled buffoon that was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. In this writer's opinion, to get out of this mess we're currently in, the Government needs to quickly implement the socialistic and people's approach put forth by Senator Bernie Sanders: allow unemployed people to join  Medicare, give each unemployed american $2000.00 a month until our economy is stabilized- basically a Democratic Socialist approach to governance.