'Grow, baby, grow' no longer working as an economic plan -- Florida
TALLAHASSEE – When you look at the jobs strategies Florida has historically leaned on, they're focused on one overriding mantra: Call it 'Grow, baby, grow.'
Policymakers insist that if businesses are freed from costly environmental and safety regulations, developers are untethered from state-mandated comprehensive planning and citizens are un-burdened of already comparatively low tax burdens, the state can recapture the glory days of its adolescent growth-phase.
Florida has natural geographic advantages that might propel it toward recovery in spite of itself, but there are a few sobering economic realities to consider.
From 1990 through 2007, Florida saw average population growth of 2.12 percent annually, or 321,991 people a year.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-20/news/os-capview-column-deslatte072212-20120720_1_population-growth-tax-cuts-tax-incentives
