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Governor Rick Scott is using his bully pulpit to champion a sales tax break on manufacturing equipment.

To bolster the cause Scott invited manufacturers to the state capitol Tuesday. There are more than 17-thousand manufacturing companies in Florida employing 300-thousand people. Scott says the tax break would help manufactures create thousands of jobs.

“When we eliminate this tax it makes us more competitive with other states so we will have more manufacturing jobs,” said Scott.

The cost of the tax break is 140 million dollars and is in Scott’s 74 billion dollar budget proposal. The largest recommended spending package in Florida history.