State gets most of jet money

Submitted by markjohnson on June 23, 2009 - 10:27am.
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North Carolina got most of its quarter-million-dollar deposit back after cancelling the order for a new state jet last fall.

Department of Commerce officials on Tuesday received a refund check of $230,625. The state made a $250,000 deposit last year on a $9 million Cessna Citation Encore+. Then-Gov. Mike Easley scrubbed the deal in October, after news media inquiries at a time when Easley was trimming state agency budgets by 3 percent.

The state lost $4,375 as an e-procurement charge and Cessna docked them $15,000 for "sales expenses," according to Commerce Department spokeswoman Kathy Neal.

The Commerce Department, whose mission includes recruiting new businesses to move to the state, uses state aircraft to take corporate executives around to potential sites in the state where the companies could set up shop.



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Re: State gets most of jet money

Submitted by Hockeydad92 on June 23, 2009 - 2:55pm.

Hey commerce department, try this novel idea, when recruiting new businesses to move to the state lower the corporate tax rates and let the companies fly around and scout locations on their own jets! They have G5 Gulfstreams and such, not lowly Cessnas...

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Re: State gets most of jet money

Submitted by watching on June 23, 2009 - 12:19pm.

You can bet your bippy that if the DEMOS can get their hands on any money, it will be spent. They don't know how to save or the meaning of the word SAVE until they are backed to the wall by their constituents complaining and wanting to know the real truth. As if the DeMos can speak the truth.

We, North Carolina citizens, are to blame by not keeping a watchful eye on our legislatures. We need to invest the time and energy to keep abreast of what the few "elite" in Raleigh is doing by controlling our state.

The bunch of idiotic thieves!

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Re: State gets most of jet money

Submitted by beachbum3 on June 23, 2009 - 11:52am.

I have said all the time that the funds are in the tax revenues an that i feel that the citizens of this state are being totaly mislead by all of this revenue shortage talk by the state political officials in the first place the fund revenue are just like Prego commerical says it's in there. it is just anm amtter of who or what it has to be in there for thank you

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Will Bev reimburse State for flights on her "Tax Hike Tour"?

Submitted by PoliticalJunkie on June 23, 2009 - 11:33am.

It is hard to believe she just took a round the state fly-around promoting her huge tax hike (to stave off devastating cuts) on the state plane at taxpayer expense.

Guess things aren't that bad...

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Re: State gets most of jet money

Submitted by melted on June 23, 2009 - 11:28am.

I bet the general assembly will spend this $230,625 on trucking more sand to Marc Basnight's beaches rather than spending it to lower their proposed tax increases. Either the general assembly or the governor will find some way to waste the money.

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