{"id":2040,"date":"2005-03-10T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:52:18","slug":"2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/2040\/","title":{"rendered":"My State Legislator Coddles Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very disappointed to see that my State Senator has decided that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/EE2A3B3BA2EC2D0586256FC00010EB8F?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">local company needs handouts<\/a> to stick around:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the battle between Missouri and Illinois could be just heating up. Express Scripts would get an estimated $35 million in incentives from Illinois to move its headquarters across the Mississippi River, a Missouri state senator said he has learned.<\/p>\n<p>To keep the company in Missouri, Sen. John Loudon, R-Ballwin, said he has introduced an 11th-hour bill to improve Missouri&#8217;s menu of economic incentives. He filed the bill March 1 after meeting with St. Louis County officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is very real competition from other communities throughout the country that are making inquiries into one of our fastest-growing companies,&#8221; said Denny Coleman, president of the St. Louis County Economic Council. &#8220;The array of incentives programs we have here are not as strong as our competitor states.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember reading much about the preeminence of corporations in this country&#8217;s founding documents, but they certainly get a lot of attention and support from the governments, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very disappointed to see that my State Senator has decided that a local company needs handouts to stick around: But the battle between Missouri and Illinois could be just heating up. Express Scripts would get an estimated $35 million in incentives from Illinois to move its headquarters across the Mississippi River, a Missouri state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20461,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/20461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}