Governor Dannel Malloy said he’s not worried about a potential visit to Connecticut by Florida’s governor, Rick Scott. Florida has become the latest state to begin courting Connecticut corporations after the controversy over business taxes in the state budget.
The state released a radio ad specifically aimed at companies based in the Nutmeg State.
The ad voiceover says, "Connecticut recently increased taxes, again. This time by over $1 billion. Florida has no state income tax, and has cut taxes 40 times over the last four years."
But Malloy said the ad, and the announcement of a visit to Connecticut by Scott, is just business as usual.
"We all do it," he told WNPR. "We're all trying to get jobs from other states when they want to move, to move to our state. We've been successful in doing that from a number of states as well."
But the governor does admit the unprecedented intervention in the budget process by companies like General Electric and Aetna is a setback for Connecticut.
"It's more publicity, in this case bad publicity -- you'd rather not have that," Malloy said. "It doesn't help; on the other hand I certainly understand it. And it's one of the reason that I've asked the legislature to make changes to the budget."
Meanwhile Democrats in the legislature caucused Tuesday on the proposed changes to the budget, but no details of a final deal have yet been given.
