How often does the State of Connecticut ship taxpayer money–and jobs–to out-of-state companies?
It happens all the time. Information provided by the Department of Social Services (DSS), for example, shows that that agency alone is sending more than $117 million of taxpayer money to out-of-state companies: this includes $38 million to a firm in Georgia to process child support payments and $700,000 to a company in Arizona for actuarial and consulting services for Gov. Rell’s Charter Oak Health Care Plan. What can Connecticut do? Connecticut should enact a reciprocal preference law, joining the 35 other states which already have one. By doing this, Connecticut companies competing for in-state contracts would have an advantage over any competing company from one of the 20 states with a preference law. How would local companies benefit from a reciprocal preference law? More taxpayer money and jobs would stay in Connecticut if a reciprocal preference law was enacted because local companies would receive a comparable advantage when competing with companies from the following states: Al
