> Massachusetts and Boston officials said Wednesday they had offered incentives valued at as much as $145 million to lure the company to the city. The package included as much as $25 million in property-tax relief.
Essentially Boston just drove a wheelbarrow full of money up to GE's front door and said "Want this?" and Connecticut couldn't match it.
So by being "anti-business" what you mean to say is: "Didn't give away tons of tax payer's money to a private corporation." I'd prefer Connecticut to use money that would have gone to GE to generate other jobs, for example pay people to upgrade the state's infrastructure.
GE gets enough tax breaks and government subsidies as is.
> Massachusetts and Boston officials said Wednesday they had offered incentives valued at as much as $145 million to lure the company to the city. The package included as much as $25 million in property-tax relief.
Essentially Boston just drove a wheelbarrow full of money up to GE's front door and said "Want this?" and Connecticut couldn't match it.
So by being "anti-business" what you mean to say is: "Didn't give away tons of tax payer's money to a private corporation." I'd prefer Connecticut to use money that would have gone to GE to generate other jobs, for example pay people to upgrade the state's infrastructure.
GE gets enough tax breaks and government subsidies as is.