Sentences with phrase «picking economic winners»
The Liberal innovation minister on how he'll pitch the «supercluster» plan, picking economic winners and what really motivates him
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However, he has long been a critic of the governor's economic development strategy that he says gives «one person» — the governor — the power to pick winners and losers.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to pit seven upstate regions against each other in a competition for $ 1.5 billion in economic development funds has prompted some lawmakers and mayors to say the state shouldn't pick winners and losers.
Astorino criticized Cuomo's economic development approach — he said he would scrap START - UP NY, a system of tax - free zones rooted in state university campuses — and said he would focus more on major regulatory changes than direct incentives, which he questioned because «the government gets to pick and choose winners... that's how we stay at the bottom.»
If the government insists on picking winners with subsidized technology programs, then nuclear strikes me as much more fruitfull, as it is already proven and close to economic and investment can be concentrated on marginal problems like waste disposal, rather than fundamental problems like «will this approach even work.»