Posted on 12/02/2023 8:44:26 AM PST by SoConPubbie
The Washington Examiner reported Thursday that the DeSantis administration provided $90,000 in tax relief to the Chinese company JinkoSolar in 2020, through his urban job tax credit program. The company would be raided by the Department of Homeland Security in 2022 after allegations it violated the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
A DeSantis gubernatorial spokesman referred the Washington Examiner to the Florida Department of Commerce, where spokeswoman Rose Hebert reportedly did not deny the kickback, but argued that it was a continuation from the previous governor, now-Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).
Hebert said:
As we have made explicitly clear, this company was recruited by the [Rick] Scott Administration and all incentives they received were a result of that recruitment … . Further, when the governor signed HB5 in 2023, he prohibited all Chinese companies (and any company from the seven foreign countries of concern in Florida law) from ever receiving state incentives in Florida.
A spokesman for Scott told the outlet that since he made a deal with JinkoSolar in 2018, which he said created 1.7 million jobs in Florida, the world has changed.
“Since then, the world has seen who Communist China truly is and the grave atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party,” Scott spokesman McKinley Lewis told the Washington Examiner. “If he was still governor he would have already taken every opportunity to claw back incentives.”
The report raises questions for DeSantis, who became governor of Florida in 2019, over his claims on the campaign trail of being tough on China.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It was through an urban tax credit program, that started before DeSantis was governor, and DeSantis ended tax benefits for ChiCom related businesses.
The writer who wrote the article is, wait for it, of Chinese descent(gasp gasp).
Guess where Trump neckties are made? If you guessed China, you would have guessed correctly.
How much to Pfizer, Moderna and asta z… o wait. The lockdown prez is untouchable because deep down everyone wanted his lockdowns n vaxxes. Billions of lives he saved, just ask him.
Yeah this is ridiculous. I’m pretty they can’t discriminate against a company just because it is a subsidiary of a Chinese company.
👢👢🤡😂
Trump 2024🇺🇸
Slow reporting day with polls I see
bttt
It's so nauseating when people have knee jerk reactions whenever an article is written about a candidate.
Thanks a lot Meatball
DeSantis is a backstabber. Never trust a backstabber. Never!
Haha. It isn’t a monarchy. Trump is not an incumbent, Biden is. Trump made all of us taxpayers foot the bill for the vote fraud that nixed him via the CARES act that he foolishly signed.
How come Trump brainwashed you into thinking it was OK for Pence and Haley to run, who were his hires, but somehow RDS, not one of his hires, is a RINO backstabbers?
DeSantis had a 98% conservative rating as a member of the Freedom Caucus.
There is absolutely no logic or reason to these weird premises that Trump has his dwindling number of groupies blindly following.
Nobody here was against Pence when Trump chose him. Hindsight is 20/20.
And if you knew Pence was bad news at the time, show me a link where you warned everyone this was a bad choice. Lets see it.
Doesn’t matter if Trump is incumbent. He backstabbed Trump and sank his political career outside Florida. Deal with with it.
Lolz. Trump stabbed himself in the back when he blubbered on about “DeSanctamonious” a week before DeSantis won his election by a whopping 20 points in vote fraud free Florida.
I know that’s the moment I knew when I was done with Trump, and what a great feeling it is to not have to defend such a self absorbed and insecure narcissist who engages in tearing down anyone he deems to be a threat to his frail ego..
I’ll ping ya when Trump is elected.☺
Btw, you wouldn’t know a narcissist if one bit ya on the butt. People like you are so damn ignorant ya think Trump is serious when he talks about his beautiful hair. Ya never noticed tens of thousands laugh it up when he makes quips like this. Leftist just don’t have any humor. Zip~
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.