The BRA brings good things to life, and GE

The brilliant BRA will think that WTF acronym actually means "Worth The Funding!".

Anyone can be a "job creator" if they don't have to pay rent or taxes. I'd hire a personal sushi chef if I received all the welfare that GE gets. One delicious job created!

She asked about the ongoing GE pollution issues across the state, and got that BS gibberish and more about the value of terrified employees.

Basically structuring some of the deal so that the state incentives can be applied to the "rent" - although if the incentives were for infrastructure - not sure that GE's private building can be considered 'infrastructure" just because a (corrupt) public entity owns it. I guess down the road - after we are all dead and gone and another generation finally figures out how to kill the BRA some of this can be sold off for something more useful.

That's the real thing that sticks in my craw - how the hell does the BRA end up owning a property worth hundreds of millions of dollars in all this?

Glad this is the new, open transparent BRA - when nobody saw this coming until after the Council extended their UR powers by 6 years. Is the timing just all a coincidence? Somehow I doubt it.

If anyone in City Hall is listening - let GE buy and own the buildings. If we promised public money etc. - so be it - but let's use it for public benefit. Not GE's rent.

Trust me. GE can afford to buy or rent those buildings without taking money that could be better spent on REAL infrastructure - not mythical future infrastructure.

Oh please, artist housing is just as outrageous. Spare us. At least GE will be adding value.

This is like the sweetheart deal Baker got after leaving state government the first time, for Harvard Pilgrim. Used his statehouse connections to get the state to buy their office building from them and rent it back. Wonder how many other corporations were allowed to bid to rent at the rates he got?

How do you blame Baker for the state reps actions?

I find it amazing how people let the state reps off the hook on this stuff.

You can. Go right ahead and file a FOIA request for all records.

_{From BernieSanders.com:}

Sanders Singles Out Top-10 Corporate Tax Dodgers

“Three major profitable corporations not only pay nothing in federal income taxes, they actually got a rebate from the IRS,” Sanders told a town meeting in a student center at Iowa Wesleyan University.

Overall, General Electric, Boeing and Verizon paid no federal income taxes during the combined 2008 through 2013 tax years. During that period, those three corporate giants racked up combined profits totaling more than $102 billion. In fact, they received income tax rebates from the Internal Revenue Service totaling more than $4.1 billion, according to a report from Citizens for Tax Justice.

“In America today we are losing $100 billion in revenue every single year because large corporations are stashing their profits in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens,” Sanders said.

Sanders’ tax plan would close loopholes those and other corporations have exploited and use the revenue to create and maintain at least 13 million good-paying jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, water systems, railways, airports and more.