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

Is Hillsborough County About To Take It Deep?

Since the spring, the Rays have been working behind the scenes with

 Ken Hagan and Bob Buckhorn, They have yet to discuss 

stadium financing. here

Hillsborough County Commissioners To Approve $85,000 In Corporate Welfare

Hillsborough County Commissioners are set to approve up to $85,000 in film incentives to Discovery Communications LLC. The appropriation serves as an attractor for the Discovery Channel’s "Kevin Loves Science" program. here

Pasco County Giving Away Millions In Corporate Welfare

The Pasco County Commission this week approved a deal worth at least $7 million in incentives for Mettler Toledo Safeline. Commissioners also moved forward on a $14 million incentive deal for Raymond James Financial. here

Publix To Invest $15 Million To Expand Its Drug Distribution

And is asking the Orange County Commission for Corporate Welfare for a drug house they plan to build in Orlando. here

Hillsborough County GOP Corruption

County commissioners are expected to vote Wednesday on $25,000 worth of subsidies to incentivize a Hillsborough County film company to shoot a film in Hillsborough County. The proposed incentive, designed to "secure the local filming of the motion picture," will cover 10% of the budget for No Postage Necessary, a film produced by Plant City-based Two Roads Picture Co. here

According to county records, the majority owner of Two Roads, Jennifer Closshey, has been a regular campaign contributor to commissioners over the last decade, donating $2,500 to Al Higginbotham, $250 to Ken Hagan, and $250 to Stacey White.
Mr Hagan and Mr. White, you guys come cheap!

Florida INC. CEO Rick Scott: Corporate Welfare Over Kids

He vetoed legislation that was passed unanimously by the Legislature that would have given dental care to low income children in underserved areas so that he could let his executive directors travel the world at  taxpayers' expense. 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

Rick Scott's Jobs Costing Florida $11 Billion A Year

A new Study on the high cost of low wage jobs in Florida. The report found that near the nearly 39 percent of Florida’s workforce, about 3 million people, are working in low-wage jobs that cost taxpayers over $11 Billion a year in public assistance programs. The report comes  at a time when both the state house and senate are considering a 

$1 billion tax cut package 

that would mostly benefit large companies. here

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

Transportation impact fees developers pay for new development.

Hillsborough County: $770 for a new home

Pasco County: 10,000 for a new home
here

"The County Commission is now considering a major overhaul of the transportation impact fees developers pay for new development. For too long, the fees has left taxpayers burdened with gridlock and paying most of the cost for new roads. For the past two years, I have worked with Sierra Club and we have taken the lead in a campaign to have new development pay more of its fair share and to use transportation fees as a tool to encourage smart growth. This plan is a big break from the status quo." 
Pat Kemp

Rick Scott’s Corporate Welfare Plan Doused With Cold Water

Rick Scott’s push to secure $250 million

 in economic incentive money this year 

was doused with cold water, 

as one of the state’s top economists said alternative plans would create more jobs and come with a 

higher return on investment. here

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare Package In Trouble

Tumbling financial markets are further clouding Gov.Rick Scott's push for $1 billion in tax cuts as the Legislature deals with a suddenly less rosy financial outlook and less money to divvy up. here

Rick Scott's "Take It Deep" Speech

Scott spoke for nearly a half-hour

He never mentioned crime, the environment, immigration, colleges and universities, transportation or health care.

He did say he wants to cut taxes by $1 billion, mostly to help businesses, such as by repealing the corporate income tax on retailers and manufacturers, eliminating the sales tax on manufacturing equipment and reducing taxes on commercial rents. He also wants $250 million for Corporate Welfare. here

Florida GOP Richard Corcoran 

of Land O'Lakes thinks it's Fantastic.
Wake up Pasco County voters.

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare State

Billion dollar tax cut for business. 

Half billion dollar property tax increase for home owners.

here

Florida GOP voters, we got your back!

$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

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

Developers of a proposed 1.5 million square foot warehouse-distribution center on Big Bend Road won an exemption Wednesday from transportation fees. Hillsborough County Commissioners voted 5-2 to approve the amendment. Commissioners 
Kevin Beckner and Stacy White 
opposed the move. here

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"How dare they ask us to raise our sales tax while exempting developers from their fair share!" 
Mariella Smith

Floridians Last

The governor's $79.3 billion spending proposal tilts heavily toward business. Scott wants a permanent elimination of income taxes on manufacturing and retail businesses; tax cuts on commercial leases over two years; and an end to sales taxes on manufacturing equipment. Just those cuts would total more than $1 billion. here

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/opinion/editorials/article47351900.html#storylink=cpy

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare Plan

$1 Billion 

Would eliminate corporate income taxes for manufacturing firms and retailers.  Rely on an increase in property taxes to boost money for schools.

here

MATT GAETZ BACKS RICK SCOTT’S Corporate Welfare

“I’m proud to fully support the proposal to create the Florida Enterprise Fund and improve the economic development process at Enterprise Florida,” Gaetz said in a prepared statement Tuesday. here

We got your back Northwest Florida!

Florida's First Family Of Corporate Welfare

The Fanjul brothers, 
the shadowy kings of Florida sugar. 

The latticework of loans and tariffs that make up the U.S. sugar program force Americans to pay about twice as much as the rest of the world for the sugar they eat, and few have benefited more from the industry subsidies 
($2 billion annually) than Pepe Fanjul and his family. here