Washington (that state) is basically a mini version of California. Far left loons run the state, Seattle is basically like San Francisco and the eastern parts of the state are Republican, just like California. Also like California is that they have high taxes. So Boeing is doing what any company would do, shipping jobs out of the state in order to avoid the high taxes. Now progressive liberal Democrats are whining ‘we’ve been had’. Too bad Democrats. Suck it.
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Lawmakers in Washington state are furious after Boeing accepted a $8.7 billion tax break over 27 years, and then promptly announced plans to move jobs outside of the state, reports The Washington Post.
When Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed the largest tax break the state has ever given, the last thing he expected was for the aerospace company to turn around export jobs to rival states. Boeing made an announcement last week that it would export 2,000 high-paying jobs in its engineering facility to Oklahoma City and St. Louis by 2017.
On Monday, the company added fuel to the fire by saying that portions of the 777X jet will be built in St. Louis. This most recent announcement means that an additional 700 jobs will exit Washington and head to Missouri.
“There is an undercurrent of disappointment that rises in some folks (including me) to the point of anger at Boeing,” state Sen. Adam Kline, whose district lies just north of one of the company’s major production facilities, said in an email to The Washington Post. “This is the way Boeing thanked us, by placing the 777X in the Midwest. We’ve been had.”