If you don't evaluate your programs, you can't make smart decisions. You're just throwing money at an issue without any clue whether you're getting any bang for your buck. |
If you take out New York City, New York State's economy is right down there with Mississippi and Louisiana. We need more reinvestment in people not corporate investment disguised as redevelopment. |
It doesn't seem to matter that this country is swimming in grossly overbuilt retail space. Retailers have become bolder with their requests [for public money]. |
It's a red herring. All state and local taxes combined as a cost of doing business for the average company in America comes to only 0.8 percent. |
It's an injury to the state that doesn't get the deal. And everybody else has to pay for that lost revenue. |
The hard question is where the engines are going to come from. The single biggest ripple would be an engine plant. |
There have been no claims from anybody in those states that anybody got harmed. |
We believe that economic development subsidies for job creation -- if they are serious about reducing poverty -- must be better integrated with public transit. These projects demonstrate many ways that localities are making that connection. |