Concerned TaxPayers of Duval County » boondoggle http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org The leading group in the fight against waste, fraud, corruption, inefficiency, wrongdoing, and tomfoolery at Jacksonville City Hall Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:24:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Taking A Bite Out Of Crime and A Bite Out Of The Taxpayer’s Wallets At The Same Time! http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org/taking-a-bite-out-of-crime-and-a-bite-out-of-the-taxpayers-wallets-at-the-same-time/ http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org/taking-a-bite-out-of-crime-and-a-bite-out-of-the-taxpayers-wallets-at-the-same-time/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:25:35 +0000 curtis http://www.jaxtaxpayers.org/?p=201 So you want to know how to justify putting the taxpayer on the hook for $200,000 ($125,000 loan and $75,000 grant) to a business to expand its truck washing facilities?  Tell everyone that it reduces crime!

Yes, it’s true!  According to the City Council analysis of bill 2009-185, more than half of the 18 new full time jobs created by this expansion will be available to assist the re-entry of felons back into society.  Jacksonville businesses apparently have caught on to the fact that if you want to get money from the city government, it helps to have a crime prevention angle going for you.  It is not only absurd to use economic development money to do crime reduction, but also expensive since we are spending over $11,000 per job.

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