In a plan sure to be touted by the Walker administration as a “win,” the state has “convinced” Ruud Lighting to build a facility in Racine. By “convinced” I mean “bribed.”
With an incentive package valued at over $8 million, Ruud has decided to build a facility to manufacture LED lighting systems in Wisconsin. With that, they will create 296 jobs with an average wage of $12.19/hour or $24,380/year. The status of the benefits package has yet to be announced. So, in effect, the Walker administration is creating jobs with public dollars through the tax incentives.
So public money spent on private industry is “good” but public money spent on public industry is “bad.” Logic? Not so much. A job is a job is a job. This is the kind of illogic that has us in the position we’re in.
Do you think the Tea Party GOP will call these people “moochers” and “thugs” for their government-sponsored jobs?
At the same time, WisGOP fans will claim that the market doesn’t want expensive LED lighting, they want good ol’ fashion incandescents like Reagan used. See, it depends on which “favorites” you pick.
I agree, the led are terrible for home use. They won’t work on a dimmer the spectrum of light turns everything green.
They would pick whale oil lamps if they had their way.
Robin Vos touted this as a win in the “mic check” video. So I guess that officially makes vos a socialist.