Get real --
Malta got a boost from over a billion dollars in New York State $ to finance Global Foundries. Global Foundries has gotten tax breaks and wants more. Global Foundries wouldn't have come Malta without getting the tax breaks and taxpayer funded financing. Without those state tax dollars and Global Foundries, Malta would still be "Mobile Home Manor."
Saratoga County has benefited from decades of letting the rest of New York State pay for its police protection and bushel loads of tax payer funded state dollars -- at both race tracks.. at S.P.A.C. and elsewhere.
http://rotterdamny.net/v-post/b-General1/m-1377688679/q-20/GlobalFoundries held a ribbon cutting at its computer chip factory in Essex Junction, Vt. on Wednesday for a $55 million upgrade to the facility. The celebration came in the days after 150 GlobalFoundries employees were laid off at the company’s New York facilities in Saratoga and Dutchess counties. The upgrades to the facility include dozens of new “tools” – an industry term for manufacturing equipment. And Gov. Peter Shumlin hailed GlobalFoundries for a new “era of transparency” as well. IBM, which used to own the facility until GlobalFoundries acquired it in July, was extremely tight-lipped about layoffs and the number of workers and upgrades to the plant. “This project reflects a new attitude and excitement, a level of transparency I find refreshing,” Shumlin said, according to the Burlington Free Press. http://blog.timesunion.com/bus.....nt-in-vermont/70292/ |
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