Audio: Senate candidates talk about the economy
More from our editorial board's interview with the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate.
Hagan was asked about RF Micro Devices, a local company that has gotten state and local economic incentives but sent 80 jobs to China this week. (They still have close to 2,000 jobs here in North Carolina.)
"Maybe we ought to be lowering the corporate income tax so that more companies would actually come here. That's something on a state level. But on a federal level, I think any trade policy we do going forward, it's got to be fair to the companies here in North Carolina. By that, you've got to have environment protections and labor protections that are enforceable..."
During his segment, Neal talked more broadly about economic policy, and reacted to Hagan's mention of state tax breaks.
"Right now, the old model of cutting taxes and having that basically benefit the common good is not working, it's broken...We have a finite amount of resources in this country..."
Click here to listen to the full exchange on the economy. It's long, about 15 minutes. Hagan is at the beginning and Neal is at the end. Duskin Lassiter and Marcus Williams weigh in between them.