“They always tell you what you want to hear to get their foot in the door.”
Tag: Pratt & Whitney
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Letter: Buncombe marches off to war$$$
“Buncombe County can no longer afford peace on Earth.”
Letter: Buncombe County — cog in wheel of death or prizewinner?
“And within a year, Buncombe County, where Pratt & Whitney has recently broken ground, will become another cog in the wheel of death.”
Letter: Demonstrate for peace, justice and a green transition
“You can call on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners to rescind the $27 million incentive agreement with Pratt & Whitney, and invest in such things as affordable housing, small businesses and schools, along with commitment to transparency on such major decisions.”
Letter: Pratt & Whitney plant is no great deal for community
“The game is rigged to exploit us, and the promise of jobs for a few is the currency to get communities to comply.”
Letter: Commissioners’ delay offers jarring juxtaposition
“My point here is the great divide between how the commissioners rolled out the welcome mat for PW, with virtually no regard for the opposition, yet postponed the protection ordinance vote that has far less opposition.”
Letter: Corporate free rides
“The argument was made that if we put conditions in the incentive contracts, a company may not sign. What then is our incentive to give them our money?”
Letter: No tax relief in sight
“Brownie Newman says that if we give tax relief to businesses that have suffered from the pandemic, we would have to raise taxes on everyone else in order to maintain county services.”
P&W deal makes mockery of Peace Day proclamation
“We must ask ourselves, ‘What are we sowing in our community and in our world for generations to come?’ Will we build our economy on poison?”
Letter: More support can be tapped to reject Raytheon
“Keep in mind that 20% of anything harmful is still 100% harmful.”
Letter: Ike’s timely warning and our current reality
“We are all the alert and knowledgeable citizenry that President Eisenhower warned would be necessary to prevent what we see happening in Buncombe County and we say: ‘No more, reject Raytheon!'”
Letter: A better way to support jobs in Buncombe
“We should be giving tax incentives to local sustainable businesses, not to a multinational corporation that relies on fossil fuels and perpetuates a war industry that is the scourge of the world.”
Letter: Backroom deal was a bad decision
“Apparently a decision had already been made without the concern of residents being heard. Is that how a democracy works?”
Letter: What does ‘transparency’ mean to Buncombe County officials?
“People may like the 800 jobs promised by the Pratt & Whitney deal and so don’t care that it was transacted so discreetly, but now that this precedent has been set, will there be future deals made without taxpayers’ knowledge and input during the negotiations?”
Letter: Public was sold out on Raytheon deal
“There are other options for providing economic betterment to the people of our region, ones that are not complicit in death and destruction.”
Letter: Commissioners should have refused devil’s bargain
“’Economic development’ is a proven strategy of neoliberalism, getting people to feel grateful for a small payoff in jobs after their wealth and prosperity have been stolen by austerity policies.”
Letter: We don’t need Raytheon plant
“And we sure do not need to spend tax dollars to subsidize this Raytheon plant.”
Letter: Keep fighting against aerospace plant
“Couldn’t we wait for something like a company making turbines for windmills and tidal power or offer incentives to aid sustainable businesses instead?”
Letter: More info needed as aerospace plant proceeds
“Some of us are concerned, however, that we never knew whom this new manufacturer would be.”