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Re: “Shoffner's late arriving legal help”
The Audit Committee....the IRS....whichever.
Re: “UPDATED: Shoffner charged with pie-box delivery of kickbacks from securities salesman; released after hearing”
Some bloggers may want to go back and read their posts from earlier today. Makes you look pretty stupid (I put the pretty in there to be nice).
Re: “The Tuesday night line”
Citizen, point well made. I am not sure I actually "touted" the hundreds of millions of subsidies, but I am certainly not against them. I have not studied the return on that investment, but that is the best way to study them. In theory, I am not against them. The other study worth checking on is the affect on Arkansas, since we seem to be missing from the list. I guess we will produce steel instead.
Re: “The Tuesday night line”
Think again Citizen. The South is producing the very cars you use as your example. You have been sitting around listening to too much Elvis!
◾In 1992 South Carolina ushered in the new wave of investment by foreign carmakers in the South by offering BMW a package that was ultimately worth an estimated $150 million. A decade later, BMW decided to expand its operations in the state.
◾In 1993 Alabama lured a Mercedes-Benz facility, the first foreign auto plant in the state.
◾In 1999 Alabama landed a $400 million, 1.7 million-square-foot Honda plant. In 2002 Honda decided to expand the facility.
◾In 2000 Mississippi lured a $950 million Nissan plant. While the plant was still under construction, the company announced an expansion of the project.
◾When South Korean carmakers Hyundai staged a competition for a $1 billion plant, various states put together bids, but it was Alabama that won the contest in 2002.
◾Commentators much made of the fact that when Toyota chose San Antonio.
◾In 2006, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue flew to Seoul to sign an agreement with Kia Motors.
◾Mississippi legislators approved Gov. Haley Barbour’s 2007 $294 million subsidy package as soon as Toyota moved to Blue Springs to produce the Highlander.
◾In 2008, Volkswagen – which had abandoned U.S. manufacturing in 1988 – announced plans to spend up to $1 billion on an assembly operation in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Re: “Obamacare application simplified”
So we have created a system where everyone must vote to "get mine" or else someone else will get it? Where does it end? When we run out?
Re: “Morning report: Ethics, gambling”
I think the quotes, "make a run" and "take off" referred to ticket sales, not payoffs as Max compares.
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Re: “The guns and Bass Pro Shops open line”
Shoffner resigns!