State Senator Julia Salazar, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Women's Issues, ​stated, “Economic development spending in New York is fundamentally broken, and despite the poor results of these policies, we persist in offering corporations blank checks without any accountability mechanism. With this interstate compact, we will stop the race to the bottom that companies have used to pit the working classes of different states against each other.”

Assemblymember Ron Kim​ said, “When municipalities and states bend over backwards for the chance to give billions to mega-companies, we all lose. In the last few decades, corporate welfare has extracted untold amounts of resources from our communities, money that could have been used to boost affordable housing, improve transportation infrastructure, and adequately fund our public school systems. It is time to end the practice of subsidizing multinational corporations without transparency, accountability, or results under the guise of economic development, and to start investing in the working families and small businesses that represent the lifeblood of our country.”

“It is so important for states to work together to ensure that we aren’t simply subsidizing profitable companies to entice them. It is always easy for a government official to throw money at an organization to get them to patriate their company there - but it ends up hurting everyone. That’s less money for schools and infrastructure and greater costs to residents. By working together states can ensure that we aren’t fighting each other, when we could be lifting each other up." – ​Connecticut State Representative Josh Elliot

“What we have seen over the last several years is a steady increase in the practice of states putting together very specific and very lucrative tax giveaways for highly publicized corporate relocations and expansions. While I can’t think of any state that doesn’t want increased economic development, at what point do we say enough is enough? No one wins when we compete against each other at the expense of mutually beneficial investments in our education system, health care and infrastructure network.” – ​Illinois Senator Toi W. Hutchinson