Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Pro-Some Businesses Climate

Yes, Republican governors who give your money to large corporations are, in some sense, pro-business.

Pennsylvania taxpayers will give high-end department-store operator Neiman Marcus Group close to $900,000 in grants and tax breaks for the company's planned $12 million, 200,000 sq ft warehouse in Jenkins Township, near Pittston, Luzerne County. In a statement Gov. Corbett said the chain will hire "at least 151."

Corbett credited the subsidy and the state's "pro-business climate" for Nieman Marcus' plan to build in the depressed former coal region.