Scoring the schemes: A look at regional economic development plans


Here’s a look at the proposals coming out of the Capital Region in and around Albany:

CapitalRegion CFA 7-3-12

  1. Don says:

    More feel good BS in a state with excessive spending and taxes. Spending money on the BS rather than cutting spending and taxes- the only program that will work.

  2. J says:

    When does the pork barrel spending, I mean economic development projects, begin? Also, how much money did the taxpayers of the state of NY pay for CNBC superstar Maria Bartoromo to come up to Albany to host Andy’s econcomic game show (his spectacle announcing this pork barrel, I mean economic develoment spending)?

  3. Jimmy says:

    Easier to read here:

    Big ones that stand out are over $10 million for the Port, and millions to real estate agencies to ‘redevelop’ slum housing; though some of it has to continue to be affordable, not all of it does. Sounds like a piece of the CSNY payoff (which is comprised primarily of real estate interests).

  4. Sherlock Holmes says:

    All Pork, all the time.

    When these projects are finished, their impact is finished. No lasting economic impact will be made. The government isn’t capable of making a difference this way. The only thing it can do to help is cut the income tax, and reduce the costs of doing business. Let the economy grow from the bottom up. Give people a shot at making it in business by lowering their costs and taxes.

    This agency and its approach to economic development are worthless.

  5. Bodie says:

    ESDC (Empire State Development Corporation) is, without a doubt, the biggest waste of tax payer money in the history of New York State. They are not “developers” and they collectively lack any discernible skills. How much skill is required to handout “free” taxpayer money? When are the middle-class taxpayers in this State going to wake up and demand that ESDC be subjected to intense scrutiny by the State Comptoller, the Attorney General and the Inspector General in order to justify and verify what “business development” is being generated by ESDC? What exactly are we getting for our money? The answer will be NOTHING.

  6. Rich says:

    Double thumbs up, Don. It’s baloney, gone to special interests and their unions.

    No hope here. 4.5 million left to cheaper tax pastures.

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