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St. Pete exec extols virtues of doing business in Florida

Published on March 9, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

In a survey of U.S. CEOs’ choice of best and worst states for business last year, Florida ranked second, finishing just behind Texas. “We’ve learned from Texas how to tell our story better and it helps that we’ve cut taxes 25 times, by about $400 million,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott told Chief Executive Magazine. “When companies like Hertz, Amazon, Deutsche Bank and Verizon add jobs here, it causes more people to look at us. Business is comfortable that we’ll keep the tax base low…

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In St. Pete, Rick Scott expresses frustration with the feds over LIP program funding

Published on March 5, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

One argument used consistently by House Republicans in Florida over the past three years to explain why they’ve rejected Medicaid expansion is that they say the federal government will renege on its financial promises. The Obama administration has said that any state that accepts Medicaid funding to help insure more people under the Affordable Care Act will have the first three years of the program paid for exclusively by the feds, with the state having to chip in just 10…

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