re: Corporate Headquarters moving from Houston to Baton Rouge (~120 jobs)

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Do you think Texas doesn't offer incentives for corporate re-locations?

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No Jindal is just giving Louisiana away while LSU goes bankrupt. We need to be more like Texas. Rabble Rabble Jindal Rabble Rabble

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exas offered Toyota $40 million to move, part of a Texas Enterprise Fund incentive program run out of the governor's office. At $10,000 a job, it was one of the largest incentives handed out in the decade-old program and cost more per job created than any other large award. Last year, Texas spent about $6,800 to lure each of 1,700 Chevron Corp. positions to Houston and $5,800 for each of 3,600 Apple Inc. jobs shifted to Austin.

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Texas pays Toyota $10,000/job and nobody says a word.

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The new global headquarters for Brown & Root will be located at 2600 Citiplace Dr. on Corporate Boulevard. The company is expected to bring a total of 925 jobs in Louisiana over the next decade.

"Louisiana's talent in the industrial services sector ranks second to none, and this major headquarters announcement demonstrates what we know so well: Louisiana offers the best business climate, workforce talent and infrastructure assets in the world when it comes to building the future," said Gov. Bobby Jindal in a statement. "We welcome Brown & Root to Baton Rouge, and we're proud that this venture will create hundreds of great new jobs for families in our capital and throughout the state of Louisiana."

To secure the project, Louisiana offered Brown & Root a tax incentive package which included a $1.8 million grant to reimburse relocation costs and lease support for the corporate headquarters. Brown & Root will also receive help from LED's FastStart workforce development program and the state's Quality Jobs PRogram.

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$1,800,000/925jobs = $1,945.95/job and the anti-Jindal ppl are shitting themselves. Only in a state filled with plant workers and swamp hicks do we criticize progress.