The Job Chase
March 5, 2015 - by
A TAPster who spent many years as a private-sector economic developer offers this:
The myopic, confused and naïve approach of North Carolina Republicans to the state’s business recruitment efforts continues to baffle experts who toil daily to bring good jobs here.
Our Republicans are opposed to incentives as “corporate welfare,” and they don’t want taxpayer money going to “subsidize” private business.
Fine.
Why, then, do Republicans in South Carolina embrace incentives? Why do they give their governor a well-funded incentive plan and authority to aggressively lasso any prospect who comes along? And lure existing businesses from North Carolina?
It’s a mystery.
The NC House took a baby step this week when it passed a recruiting package, but it’s not enough and too late and even it has plenty of opposition.
Our Republicans need to crawl down from their philosophical high horse and take a trip down I-77 from Rock Hill to Columbia, or I-95 through Florence and look at the explosive growth of large businesses and job creators along those corridors. And talk to real people whose lives have been enhanced by a job at one of those places.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans
The Job Chase
March 5, 2015/
A TAPster who spent many years as a private-sector economic developer offers this:
The myopic, confused and naïve approach of North Carolina Republicans to the state’s business recruitment efforts continues to baffle experts who toil daily to bring good jobs here.
Our Republicans are opposed to incentives as “corporate welfare,” and they don’t want taxpayer money going to “subsidize” private business.
Fine.
Why, then, do Republicans in South Carolina embrace incentives? Why do they give their governor a well-funded incentive plan and authority to aggressively lasso any prospect who comes along? And lure existing businesses from North Carolina?
It’s a mystery.
The NC House took a baby step this week when it passed a recruiting package, but it’s not enough and too late and even it has plenty of opposition.
Our Republicans need to crawl down from their philosophical high horse and take a trip down I-77 from Rock Hill to Columbia, or I-95 through Florence and look at the explosive growth of large businesses and job creators along those corridors. And talk to real people whose lives have been enhanced by a job at one of those places.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans