Florida INC. Stealing Peoples Homes

Florida is ground zero of the foreclosure crisis. No other state even touches Florida when it comes to the number of foreclosures over the past decade. So you would figure that the Sunshine State's government would be first in line to take advantage of federal assistance programs meant to help regular Floridians. You would figure wrong. here 

Florida INC. CEO Rick Scott

It’s unmistakable who Gov. Rick Scott’s biggest fans are if you look at his political fundraising over the 
last two years.

Associated Industries of Florida

 The Florida Chamber of Commerce

Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts

U.S. Sugar Corporation

Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeffrey Vinik

here 

The Peasants Of Florida INC.

With its low incomes and comparatively high cost of living, Florida ranks No. 5 on a list of states whose residents are most likely to live paycheck to paycheck.  

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Florida trails only 
Hawaii, California, New York and Alaska 
on the list compiled by Go Banking Rates. here
Let's Get To Work

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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Florida INC. Sugar Cane Farms

Sugar cane farms repeatedly failing to meet Everglades pollution cleanup goals can continue business as usual thanks to an accommodating landlord — the state of Florida. here

Florida Inc.

It has become abundantly clear to Floridians that large corporations and wealthy individuals use state power to serve their own interests. 

Amendment 1, passed in the last election, was approved by 75 percent of voters because they recognized that Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, water management districts and the Legislature have not protected our environmental resources; instead killing good growth management, intentionally dismantling and defunding environmental programs, and advancing bad water policies to accommodate corporate polluters. here

Florida INC. Welcomes Polluters

Dump hazardous materials

No Fines

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is not enforcing laws against companies responsible for hazardous materials pollution or collecting the fines it could from polluters, according to a study released Thursday by an environmental group. here

Florida INC. - Corporate Owned And Operated

THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE, MARCO RUBIO, HYPOCRISY AND THE NAKED IDEOLOGY OF AN OLIGARCHY here

Rick Scott's Corporate Welfare

Florida INC. CEO Rick Scott wants $85 million to give to his corporate buddies. He apparently has given up on the idea that he can create jobs, which he claimed he would do in his election campaigns. Scott’s strategy to lure jobs from other states ignores the facts of job creation. Most new jobs are homegrown, not lured from elsewhere. here

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Florida already has one of the lowest tax burdens in the nation and lax

 environmental regulations.  

Florida INC. Slave Wages: Pam Bondi

Florida Has Not Held an Employer Responsible for Violating the Minimum Wage Since 2011

Blame Pam Bondi, the state’s Trump-loving attorney general. here

Florida INC. Destroys Tourism Industry

Tourists Beware

Florida Stinks

As bad as it looks, the stench is far worse, driving away motel customers, chasing off paddleboard and kayak renters and forcing residents to stay indoors. It smells like death on a cracker. Morgues don't smell as bad. here

Stop Fracking In Florida: Hydraulic Fracturing In Naples

Oil Drilling Truck Convoy headed for Naples 

One of the newest controversies in the field of oil and gas extraction is playing out in South Florida, just outside of the City of Naples. While there has been history of oil and gas development, both on- and off-shore in Florida since the 1940s, the risks of fracturing rock to extract hydrocarbons more than 10,000 feet below the surface, has been gaining much attention recently.......more>

 

Preserve Our Paradise, Inc. was formed when we learned that the Dan A. Hughes Company of Beeville, Texas had applied to drill a well that presents maximal threats to public safety and our natural environment.  It is positioned to drill under the City of Naples main water wellfield, the future Collier County water wellfield area, the Florida Panther National Wildlife Preserve, and the residential suburb of Golden Gate Estates.....here

Florida INC. To Forfeit $250 Million In Aid To Help Homeowners Facing Foreclosure

The state did not apply for the federal foreclosure assistance, the most recent and perhaps most egregious fumble in a disappointing string of actions by the Florida Housing Finance Corp., which manages the state's Hardest Hit programs. The agency has failed to properly manage $1 billion in foreclosure aid it had previously received from the federal government. here

Florida Inc. Killing Dolphins?

Toxic algae blooms could be linked to a brain disease similar to Alzheimer's, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of Miami.

The seven Florida dolphins that were studied were found in areas with toxic recurring algal blooms - the Atlantic Ocean, the Banana River, the Indian River Lagoon and the Gulf of Mexico.

HERE 

Florida INC. Workers' Compensation Policy

Florida is already one of the hardest states for workers seeking treatment or lost wages when injured on the job. Now lawmakers are trying again to make it more difficult for employees to sue when they have wrongly been denied workers' compensation. Senate bills would impose new caps on workers' attorney fees in such disputes, which critics say will discourage lawyers from taking cases. here

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Backers don't entirely deny the charge.

"What we're trying to do is reduce attorney involvement in the system," said Rep. Danny Burgess, a Zephyrhills Republican leading the House legislation.

Florida INC.To Starve The Poor

Hundreds Of Thousands Have Lost Food Stamps In Florida. here

Florida INC. Taking Over Cities

Right-wing corporate interests are pushing state legislatures to curtail the progressive power of city governments. here

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Right now, there are two bills filed in the Florida legislature that propose sweeping new restrictions on local governments. One (House Bill 17) would bar them from regulating "businesses, professions, and occupations," the other (SB 1158), would expressly preempt "the regulation of matters relating to commerce, trade, and labor."

Florida INC. Income Inequality

The top 1 percent of wage earners in Florida make $1.27 million on average, nearly 35 times more than the bottom 99 percent, for which the average income is $36,530. here

Florida Inc.: 5-point Work Plan 2015

“Tax Relief.” If only that meant collecting some of the billions Florida loses annually in uncollected corporate taxes. If legislators stopped rubber-stamping loopholes, incentives and offshore tax havens that bring nothing in return except millions in thankful corporate contributions to their campaign committees.

Take 2014 (please). Big businesses and corporate advocacy groups spent untold millions on campaign contributions, then benefited from billions in “tax relief.” Us common folk, our tax relief amounted to an average annual $25 savings on auto fees. here

Florida INC. Stealing Our Money For Public Schools

A businessman whose companies managed 15 charter schools in Florida, including six across Pinellas and Hillsborough counties, was charged Monday with racketeering in what prosecutors said was a scheme to steer public education money his way using huge markups, bogus invoices and a web of related corporations. here