Let me ask you a question. If low taxes and lack of regulations are so important to businesses why is Florida in the position it is. We have one of the lowest corporate taxes in the nation, we don’t have an income tax and we are definitely pro business in our regulations, yet still our citizen's wages are low and unemployment is high.
According to the reasoning of Republicans in Tallahassee businesses should be fighting to get here but they are not and the few that are coming need bribes to do so.
How do I know this? Look at the latest budget proposal from the legislature. Not only does it include higher tuition, less road construction, lower payments to hospitals treating the poor but 73 million for corporations as well. Rick Scott by the way requested over two hundred millions for his slush fund and where 73 is several hundred million lower than last year’s corporate welfare number, what are we getting for it? Why do we need to give them anything?
Florida has several billion dollars, because of loopholes, annualy diverted from the state’s coffers. The legislature has refused to ask travel companies to pay taxes and likewise won’t tax internet purchases. Then our legislators cry poverty and look to raise college tuition and ignore our roads because we can't afford to fix them.
Maybe we need more money to go to education and infrastructure, maybe just maybe that is what businesses are looking for.
What good are low taxes if society crumbles around us?
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