http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/03/arkansas-spends-431-million-per-year-on-corporate-welfare Comments On: Arkansas spends $431 million per year on corporate welfare by David Ramsey en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Free trade, low taxation on the rich, high regressive taxation (everything has ten percent or more sales taxation now) on the rest, awful wages which haven't risen for decades, no or awful benefits. Always at the expense of environment among other things.

I overheard a fellow today talking about how he left Tulsa to stay with a company he's worked for for years... to move with them to NWA at a dramatic wage cut (same job, same company) only to find considerably higher costs of living here ta boot.

Despite the fact he liked it here well enough, he's moving back.

States and their owners are playing us against each other on so many levels for so much more money than we can even count.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:09:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
cbb, probably a bad idea that Boston didn’t provide Dell with some "corporate socialism." Particularly, given the fact that the Massachusetts economy has been in freefall, bleeding tens of thousands of jobs since the collapse of the tech bubble.

Remember Massachusetts Gov. Patrick blasting Romney at the Dem. Nat’l Convention because of Mitt’s pitiful economic record while he was governor?

Bottom line: Austin gets Apple’s 3,600 new jobs (doubling its current workforce there), thanks primarily to $21 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund.

As for Sasol, it considered several other states before picking Louisiana. You can guess which of those states promised the best incentives package. The Louisiana Economic Development Commission says about 850 of the new Sasol jobs will pay average salaries of $89,000, not including benefits.

We could use a bunch of that here in The Natural State. No?
Posted by Durango]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:25:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:17:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
Which may be why Apple is taking 3,600 new sales and accounting jobs to Austin.

And why Volkswagen is adding 800 new jobs at its Chattanooga plant, increasing the plant’s work force to more than 3,500.

And why Sasol Ltd., will invest up to $21 billion to develop an integrated GTL and ethane cracker complex in Westlake, Louisiana, creating 1,253 direct jobs and an estimated 5,886 indirect jobs.

Just sayin’.
Posted by Durango]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:20:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
Am I reading that right?

Texas is over half of the state budget?
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:49:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by evil monkey sez]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:34:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by David Ramsey]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:37:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Retired]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:29:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's just an age old racket that keeps our rich in riches. This kind of help is far more important than feeding the starving, healing the sick, or educating a damn kid. Who'll work for nothing on the Arkansas Plantation if their heads are all filled up with book learning?

Maybe the reason you and I aren't rich is because we go for decades without any handouts from the government? Think of all those years you've missed out on your free check or big reductions in your tax bill. Mitt was right, us 47% are behind the 8 ball, but it's because we don't get handouts from the government.

<-------- See my hand?
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:02:41 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:59:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:58:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
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