Konni Burton: Stop Throwing Our Tax Dollars to Big Business

4 Highlights from Senator Burton’s TribTalk Perspective this week:

1. Abolish the Enterprise Fund. She doesn’t like economic incentives to Facebook.
2. Companies that make a lot of money should not be subsidized, like Facebook was.
3. Bills like, HB 2712 (Geren/Hancock), that are written for specific companies also not good.
4. When the # of jobs and pay rate does not exceed the cost of the public investment, not good. Facebook jobs are costing Texas about $183,000 per Facebook job.

Cogitate: The liklihood that this is a Tea Party signal that economic development is still in its crosshairs?