Oklahoma governor seeks massive incentives to lure company

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday asked state lawmakers to approve a massive package of financial incentives, including tapping into the state's reserve funds, to help lure an unnamed company to the state.

The first-term Republican said he was prohibited by a non-disclosure agreement from naming the company or outlining the total cost of the package. But he hinted that the incentives targeted a company associated with the electric-vehicle industry.

“Tens of billions of dollars are going to be invested over the next five to seven years in this space, and we want Oklahoma to be the spot that these folks land," Stitt said.

He said the unnamed company planned to build one of the largest manufacturing facilities in the country, a “humongous factory with billions and billions of dollars worth of investment, thousands and thousands of jobs."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oklahoma-governor-seeks-massive-incentives-212703196.html

Sounds like he wants to pay them to come there.

[DBoon]

1. maybe they should back off on the culture wars crap

You can't attract a 21st century workforce with 16th century politics

[txwhitedove]

2. Exactly.

[gratuitous]

3. It's not FoxConn, is it?

Ask Wisconsin how empty they found the bag o' promises from FoxConn that they bought for a whole lot of money.

[MuseRider]

4. Ahhh, this sounds very much like the same deal

Kansas is losing it's mind over, or was. It was huge news, it was between us and another state and they were willing to use every single penny they could take out of any other place they were not already robbing. They would not say who or what or where in Kansas, they would not say anything. Then there was a battle in the legislature and there has been nothing more in the news about it. Dropped it to silence. This was supposed to have been decided at least by the middle of last month but not a word. I have no idea where the legislature fell on this, there was nothing any of us could do anyway unless you have an R attitude and moral code.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. They should be polling the employees on who wants to live in Oklahoma.

[Runningdawg]

6. Not even a free ride is incentive enough to move to the land time forgot.

[cloudbase]

7. They need a new band, too. N/T

[Celerity]

8. another Rethug con, learning from the dark master mushroom