- 1) eliminates Florida's 21-year-old economic development agency
- 2) emasculates its tourism marketing arm.
Governor Rick Scott is madder than hell saying, “Today’s vote by politicians in the Florida House is a job killer. I know some politicians who voted for this job killing bill say they don’t necessarily want to abolish these programs but instead want to advance a conversation."
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Thank God the Gov picking winners and losers is OVER!
Enterprize Florida Math Sucked! Private Businesses
should promote florida and is not - never was a gov job!
Back Off Sam is good because and math proves it!
Corporate welfare is bad for taxpayers!
The House Careers and Competition Subcommittee recently held a panel discussion with economist and government officials to review economic incentive programs (aka, corporate welfare). Amy Baker, the state’s chief economist gave a presentation on the return on investment of taxpayer money for the various economic incentive programs.
The question was, are these incentive programs working?
The answer was decidedly negative.
Amy Baker’s report showed that nearly 70 percent of Florida’s state-level incentive and investment programs lost money during the past three years. Baker reported that 18 of the state’s 26 economic incentive programs failed to bring in enough tax revenue to break even — three of those programs were a total loss and required additional funding, including Enterprise Florida’s Quick Action Closing Fund, which had a return of 60 cents for every tax dollar awarded.
Amy Baker concluded her remarks by reiterating that
“Florida’s economic growth stems from its population growth — two times the national average”.
Because of Florida’s large population, businesses will want to relocate to Florida to service the citizens of Florida and local homegrown businesses should be allowed to compete on a level playing field.
Amy Baker cautioned against providing incentives for businesses that might move to Florida anyway, and added that the state has 8.5 million workers and an $800 billion annual state GDP. Using incentives “to attract a worker at a time would be very onerous,” she said.
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/business/article126340919.html#storylink=cpy
Florida should be a great place for businesses to thrive. We have great year-round weather, beautiful beaches and multitude of water related activities. We have Disney World and other great theme parks for our children. There are golf courses and tennis courts everywhere, as well as many more amenities accessible to Floridians. We shouldn’t have to bribe any huge corporation to move to Florida. Corporate Welfare programs in Florida, where the powerful elites get special privileges from the legislature is extremely unfair to small business.
An annual report by Thumbtack looks at how business friendly government policies are in each state. The survey showed that small businesses in Florida are frequently frustrated by unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles,” said Jon Lieber, Chief Economist of Thumbtack.
“Florida's small businesses like the tax climate in the state but report there is a lot of room for improvement if the state wants to be more appealing to entrepreneurs.”
This problem for Florida comes mainly from business and professional fees and permits, along with local zoning laws.
Google started with two guys in a garage, which by Florida’s local zoning laws, would be prohibited.
The Florida legislature instead should look to minimize government influence in the marketplace, by reducing regulatory, business and professional fees and permits, as well as lowering taxes.
The Florida legislature should reduce all tax burdens by shrinking the size of government and letting people keep more of their hard-earned money to spend on these small businesses and lower taxes reduces the capital cost of small businesses.
Instead of subsidizing one huge corporation at a time, we should encourage 1,000 new small businesses that can compete on a level playing field.
Well, now that we have had the benefit of your long and expert dissertation, we all know exactly how to proceed. Don't bother to quote your sources, anyone can see immediately that you're an expert in all fields. Anyone can see that those little people working for those 1000 little companies are better off than those poor souls working for Merck, Caterpillar, ADM, Home Depot, and all the rest of those vicious Corporations who pay those horrible health insurance benefits; vacations; sick leave; and savings plans are suffering needlessly when they could work for 8.00 an hour in some back alley warehouse, where OSHA is even afraid to go.
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