Connecticut pays $900,000 per Jax job

Here's one more reason why New Englanders should move to Florida.

After failing to persuade fiscally prudent residents in Collier and Sarasota counties to fork over millions of taxpayer dollars for a new research center with vague promises, The Jackson Laboratory has found a new home in the Constitution State.

That's because Connecticut legislators are far more generous with other people's money than their Florida counterparts. They recently voted to give the Maine-based genetics laboratory $291 million in taxpayer money for a research center that may employ 320 people within 10 years.