Corporate Welfare: $3,796 Per Job In Florida

 For the past 16 years, more than $80 million in state incentives backed by taxpayer money helped recruit and subsidize companies creating nearly 20,000 jobs around Tampa Bay. In more than 200 deals since 1996 by Enterprise Florida in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, the largest sum handed over to a firm is $19.6 million to California research firm SRI International. In 2009 SRI opened a marine research facility in St. Pe t e r s b u r g . The number of SRI jobs documented by the state so far: 86.

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Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

Hillsborough County may pay a financial services firm more than $1 million partly to help it add workers, but partly just to stick around. If the company takes the money, it could set a new precedent for the county that - potentially - would encourage other companies to seek money for retaining workers. Traditionally, the county has given incentives for creating new jobs or luring new companies to the area.
Tuesday morning, Hillsborough County Commissioners approved offering an unnamed company

an economic incentive package worth $1.2 million.
here

Now we have to pay for the right to work.

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Florida GOP: Foxes In The Henhouse

State of State

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Rick Scott promised to fight for economic-incentive money, business tax cuts (Corporate Welfare) and conservative education reforms. here

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A coalition of labor, environmental, LGBT-rights, and other left-leaning groups under the banner “Awake the State” organized more than a dozen rallies across Florida to coincide with the first day of the 2017 legislative session, including an event at the Capitol. Their message: Scott and Republican leaders are not fighting for us.

-“The governor, and frankly the speaker (Richard Corcoran), are living in an alternative reality.” Sen. Gary Farmer

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare

Rick Scott once turned down billions in federal money to bring high speed rail to Florida. Now he wants to give "Florida East Coast Railway" hundreds of millions of our dollars to do the same thing.

Florida Inc: Corporate Welfare

Florida’s treasury and taxpayers are losing $4 billion a year to “economic development subsidies,” tax breaks and loopholes for the largest, most profitable corporations?

The 20 percent of us with the lowest incomes paying more than 13 percent in taxes, and the 1 percent of us with the highest incomes paying only 2 percent? here

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Publix Wants Some Corporate Welfare

 They want $4.2 million in exchange for adding 700 jobs and a facility in Lakeland. here

Best Of Sandy Murman

Yes On TBX

Hypocrisy

Sanctions

Florida Ethics Commission Investigation

Tea Party Advisors

Profile In Cowardice

Corporate Welfare

Corruption Scandal In Tampa

GOP Corruption

Bigots In The County Commission

E-Mail Scandal

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Enki: Tax Scam

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

Commissioners Pay Millions Of Dollars For 375 Jobs

Commissioners voted unanimously (Shame on you Mr. Beckner) to give Amazon.com millions of dollars in corporate welfare for 375 jobs. TheCommissioners were enthusiastic about the vote. Chairman Ken Hagan called it a "grand slam" A grand slam for who?

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Ben Affleck: Corporate Welfare Whore

Ben Affleck bought the film rights to “Live By Night” a novel by former Tampa area writer Dennis Lehane set in Ybor City during the 1920s and 1930s about a petty Boston thief’s rise to successful Gulf Coast rum runner. (Un)fortunately for Tampa, the absence of state tax incentives for movie productions “Live By Night” will bypass the original. Instead, 
a fake Ybor City 
is being erected in Georgia. here
Remember this when this movie comes to local theaters.

Hillsborough County $2.5M In Corporate Welfare

Hillsborough County Commissioners are expected to consider granting a new Siemens joint venture a seven-year tax break if the German manufacturer elects to develop a new $130 million, high-tech factory in the county. here

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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

Corporate Welfare: Hillsborough County Pays $350,000 For 30 New Jobs

The exemption for NewSouth Window Solutions would save the company nearly $50,000 a year in ad valorem taxes and cost the county nearly $350,000 in lost revenue over the seven-year proposal. In return, NewSouth would have to create at least 30 new jobs in Hillsborough County. here

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The Hillsborough County Commission
unanimously approved 
this giveaway!

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“This is a great story of a manufacturer expanding in our community,” said Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandra Murman.
Murman said criticism to past incentives stemmed from a lack of accountability. The NewSouth deal would require the company to create at least 30 jobs or the deal is off.

Hillsborough County $235.000 in Corporate Welfare

Headquarters operation. It would be in an unincorporated part of the county, creating 130 new higher-wage jobs. A local match of up to 

$130,000 would start in fiscal year 2016 and be spread over six years.

IT expansion. It would create 125 higher-wage jobs with a local match of $75,000 spread over eight years, beginning in FY 2016.

Business services establishment. The operation would create 50 higher-wage jobs and is seeking a local funding match of $30,000 over five years.

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Bob Buckhorn Supports Corporate Welfare

At the Brian Glazer Family Jewish Community Center in West Tampa having lunch Buckhorn used the opportunity to advocate for the continuing existence of Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida. Earlier this month, the House passed a bill that would eliminate Enterprise Florida and nearly two dozen tax incentive programs. here

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“All of you need to get your phone and call your legislators and say, ‘stop this foolishness. Stop it now." Bob Buckhorn

More Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

$2.1 million to
Johnson & Johnson

Hillsborough County commissioners are scheduled to take up the matter at their Wednesday meeting. here

Ethics Free Florida GOP

Special Session Starting In Tallahassee
NOT to expand access to healthcare to over 

one million hard working Floridians. 

NOT to repeal the Nuclear Cost Recovery fee 

(Corporate Welfare).

NOT to help stifle the skyrocketing home owners 

insurance rates across the state.

They are using your tax dollars to call us all back to Tallahassee because their lack of transparency and ethics was finally drawn to light this past week. A Judge ruled that the Republican leadership made a "mockery" of the legislative process in drawing our Congressional districts in 2012. 
Now your tax dollars are being used
 to fix their mistakes.

Amanda Murphy

Do your thing on 11.4.14. Rid Florida of its Right Wing Infestation.

Celebration Party 7pm Ybor City, Florida

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare State

Rick Scott wants legislators to keep in place a tax break for manufacturing companies.

Two years ago, the Florida Legislature agreed to waive the state’s 6 percent sales tax for equipment purchased by manufacturing businesses. But the
$137 million a year tax break 

is scheduled to end in 2017. here

Florida: The Corporate Welfare State

Good Jobs First, a nonprofit that studies economic development programs, found in a report released today that tax credits that are intended to help large and small businesses across the country often go disproportionately to big corporations. here

Hillsborough County Corporate Welfare

Hillsborough County approved a local incentive match of $69,000 to Gateway One Lending & Finance in support of Florida Inc.'s commitment of $276,000. here