Monday, January 18, 2016

Rick Scott's got it together

"Rep. Mark Pafford, D-West Palm Beach, was quoted in a News Service of Florida story saying, "It's an easy argument to make that the governor is basically handing cash away to his big corporate buddies and he's literally stomping people into the ground who need it the most. If you're in the tea party and concerned about responsibility, the governor is not offering that."

That's certainly not my view. Florida has taken a giant leap forward since 2010. Its reputation as a state moving up economically and influentially, providing a better future for its citizens today than it did before Gov. Rick Scott came along, has been regaled in media across the country since the last presidential election. Economic incentives is nothing more than a cost of a state's doing business today. Read more...

It's one of the tools the governor has used to make good things happen to the Florida economy." This is exactly what we have done and are doing right here in Lake Worth to attract businesses and development. Just look at our LDR's. We did it for The Lucerne with a tax incentive. The difference here is that we don't want anymore high rises.

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