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How much is CAT spending to set up the plant? That is a nescessary tidbit to judge how much is too much to dole out for incentives.

If CAT is spending 13 million it is a ripoff, if Cat is spending a billion then 13 million could be a deal.

Does Scott Miller want to see $140,000,000 invested in his city by Caterpillar? Does Scott Miller want to see 600 new manufacturing jobs in his city? If so, what would have been Scott Miller's alternative to the incentives his city offered to land the plant? Much easier to whine than to offer workable alternatives, isn't it, Scott.

DK: You, sir, are spending WAY to much time in Pat Lynch's "reality zone!" I fear for your mental health if you don't immediately seek refuge in sex, drugs or rock & roll...and various states of denial, persecution and/or limbo...
;>)

Shouldn't you be more concerned with greenhouses gases than jobs?

Yeah, I wanna see the same environmental yardsticks used with this Cat plant that has been applied to Hempstead County and Swepco. Come out from behind the log, Louie.

Scott Miller says a lot about the workers being citizens of NLR but does he demand that teachers in the NLR district live in the district? Does he demand that these teachers pay their property taxes to the NLR district? Does he say anything about the increase in school taxes that will be collected from CAT's $140 million investment?
Has he ever offered to pay for the operations of the trolley that passes besides the Baker House? This is tax payer money and he benefits as much as anyone from this expenditure.
In today's economy a state and city has to pay to play. If they don't step up to the plate then companies will take their game to another location. Although it sucks, that's the way it is.

(Teachers could be substituted for police or fireman or any other city workers.)

I'm mostly confused, as I often am, but is Scott Miller saying that North Little Rock shouldn't shell out some bucks for a $140 million plant if 400 of the 600 new employees aren't residents of North Little Rock?
That's what it seems like.
And this coming in a city that has more than 250 of its police and firemen not living in the city limits.
What a maroon.

>>I wanna see the same environmental yardsticks<<

Did your wife drop some heavy dope in your coffee!

Are you awake-dreaming?

There are only Huckabee-Beebe "yardsticks" in Ark. There are no rules which make a
damn bit of difference.

Remember the perks that come with being 49th-We also get to be an environmental dump.

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