The State Makes A Bad Deal

A tax break or any other giveback to a single entity is awful. When done following a threat to move it’s awful and distasteful.

Tonight on the news Mark Davis reported on a ‘deal’ to save Pratt and Whitney’s engine plant in Cheshire.

Governor Rell has offered Pratt and Whitney a $100 million tax incentive to keep its engine repair plant open in Cheshire.

The deal would be good for $20 million per year for five years. She presented the proposal to parent United Technologies this morning and reports are that initial reaction is positive.

Really? $100 million and the reaction is positive. Shocker!

I am not involved in news gathering. I am only speaking on behalf of myself.

How is this not extortion? Pratt and Whitney threatens to leave… sorry, a profitable Pratt and Whitney threatens to leave and is, in essence, granted $100 million from the taxes and fees the rest of us pay.

I have always been against pitting states or municipalities against each other seeing who can give the better deal to a big business. It’s a foolish race to the bottom.

I’m against this too.

A tax break or any other giveback to a single entity is awful. When done following a threat to move it’s awful and distasteful.

Isn’t the state already broke? Is there no shame?